According to web.utk.edu: "During the 1971-72 season, Wilbert Cherry and Larry Robinson became the University's first African-American Basketball players. Mr. Cherry was a walk-on who played junior varsity. Mr. Robinson was the first to receive a scholarship to play varsity basketball."
Ken Dious was the first black (African American) football player in the 1967 Spring University of Georgia football program. Dious at UGA joined in 1967 Nate Northington and Greg Page at the University of Kentucky and five black football players at the Univ. of Alabama to begin the Southeastern Confernce use of black athletes. At the SEC UA the 1967 walk ons were Dock Rone, Arthur Dunning, Melvin Leverett, Andrew Pernell, and Jerome Tucker.
There were actually five. Robert Kinnebrew, Horace King, Clarence Pope, Larry West, and Richard Appleby. They all were all on the varsity team starting in 1971.
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Receiver Lester McClain in 1968.
Tennessee State University is traditionally a mostly black university.
The first black football player in the SEC played for The University of Tennessee
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Gene Mitchell Gray, an undergraduate student, became the first Black admitted to the University of Tennessee in 1952.
Tennessee Tech University is located in Cookeville, Tennessee. Dwight Henry was the first African American graduate of the school.
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