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Journal article
ADR in Youth and Intercollegiate Athletics
Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol.1997, pp.631-943
01/01/1997
Abstract
I. Introduction In 1967, when several black athletes at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) felt that the UTEP athletic department did not make any extra effort to accommodate black athletes, they decided to take matters into their own hands. 1 Early in the 1967 football season, black football players staged a sit-in at the athletic dorm, engaging in what was possibly the first major college football boycott. 2 The athletes' demands included: being allowed to date whomever they wanted, increasing the number of black females in the student body, providing the black athletes' wives with the same job opportunities as the white players' wives, and discontinuing the coach's poor treatment of black athletes, which included derogatory racial jokes. 3 At the football coach's request, the athletes agreed not to discuss the matter with the media. 4 However, the sit-in did not change either university policy or the coach's behavior. As one athlete stated, "not a single thing happened."
Details
- Title
- ADR in Youth and Intercollegiate Athletics
- Publication Details
- Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol.1997, pp.631-943
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Brigham Young University * J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Identifiers
- 99380464840506600
- Academic Unit
- Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business; Commerce
- Language
- English