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The first black football player in the SEC played for The University of Tennessee
At the University of Alabama, Bryant's first African American scholarship player to play was running back Wilbur Jackson in 1971.
John Mitchell.
Black college football "classics" were conceived in 1924 when Alabama State College and Tuskegee Institute met in the first-ever Turkey Day Classic in Montgomery, Alabama.
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John Mitchell was one of the first two black players to join the Alabama football team. Mitchell played in 1971 and was co-captain in 1972.
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