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Nov 19 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
For #USC and #UCLA, like the rest of the national football landscape, change has been slow.

This is why it's significant that Saturday marks the first time in this rivalry game that both schools will start Black quarterbacks. From @BillPlaschke: latimes.com/sports/story/2…
The presence of a Black starting quarterback is so common that most interviewed for this column didn't know Saturday’s QBs will make history.

But several former QBs from UCLA & USC endured heartache, terror and harassment when they put on their uniforms. latimes.com/sports/story/2…
Vince Evans led USC to an 11-1 record and Rose Bowl victory in his final season.

In his senior season (1976), as he was leaving a game with an injury, new coach John Robinson purposely met him on the field and put his arm around him as they walked off. latimes.com/sports/story/2…
Rodney Peete led the Trojans in the late 1980s. Stanford had promised Peete he could play QB, but during his recruiting visit, “I had 15 different Black players tell me, ‘They will not let you play quarterback,’” Peete remembered. “It was sad.”
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When Brett Hundley starred from 2012 to 2014, he was the first impact black quarterback at UCLA since Jackie Robinson in 1939.
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Caleb Williams is the Trojans' first impact Black starting QB in 31 years.

“We’re in the age of the Black quarterback, everywhere you look there are superstar Black quarterbacks, and this game is emblematic of that change,” says author Jason Reid.
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