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."
Bill Garret
Oscar Robertson
Charlie Scott.
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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