Richard Pennington (리처드 패닝턴)

• 2005 letter to Darrell Royal

  

  April 27, 2005

  Darrell Royal
  University of Texas
  University Station
  Austin, TX 78712

  Dear Coach Royal:

  I am prompted to write this letter because of the recent death of Prentice Gautt, the first black football player at your alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.

  If you recall, I am the author of Breaking the Ice/Racial Integration of Southwest Conference Football, as well as three other books on sports history. Nobody would deny that you were a great coach. What you did in… read on

• Jerry LeVias, the most significant football player in SWC history

  

  Through the mid-1960s, I did not know what “segregation” was but I could look around and see there were no black people in our east Dallas neighborhood. And since it was not exactly a sociopolitical hotbed, nobody made a fuss or raised questions.

  Sports was in my blood, so I constantly read about, watched and cheered the teams of the Southwest Conference: the Texas Longhorns (this far predated my matriculation at the big school in Austin), the Rice Owls, the TCU Horned Frogs, the Texas A&M… read on

• Hooping it in Durham, NC

  

  In the spring of 1978, I moved to Durham, North Carolina. My reasons for having done so seem dubious in retrospect. It was not unlike when I went to Lexington, Kentucky the year before. Both were southern college towns—the University of Kentucky in the case of Lexington and Duke University in Durham. In those footloose days, I saw nothing wrong with going somewhere, getting a blue-collar job, making some friends and just seeing what might happen.

  What I remember most clearly about the eight… read on

• Me and the Chaps

  

  I was a student at Hill Junior High School in 1967 when the American Basketball Association was formed. This would be of no consequence had the Dallas Chaparrals not been a member of the league. I was an enthusiastic supporter from the start, attending numerous games at Municipal Auditorium downtown and Moody Coliseum on the SMU campus.

  Some of the players I remember vividly are Glen Combs, John Beasley, Cincy Powell, Manny Leaks, Bob Verga, Rich Jones, Joe Hamilton, Ron Boone, Spider… read on

• My 1982 trip to Seattle

  

  Six years after college graduation, I was washing dishes at the Capital Oyster Bar in downtown Austin. Not exactly on the fast track to the top, was I? Some kind of change was in order, so I quit my job and took a long drive—4,200 miles to be exact. What follows is a recollection of that journey, bearing in mind that it occurred nearly three decades ago.

  I learned about a company based in Dallas that hired people to drive cars to various cities around the USA. There are others, known as… read on

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