Trivia in a way

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Trivia in a way

Post by RichH » Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:48 pm

Going thru Bball records book.
Does anyone recall the first black player? And no I dont know the answer. Just wondering.


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Post by RichH » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:03 pm

Earliest I recall is Chaley Brown from early 70s.

I wonder is Reed any relation to Neal Fenton a G in the early 90s.
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Post by TMH » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:34 pm

I graduated in 1975 and truthfully there were very few black students on campus then. Charlie Brown was the first black player that I knew of, graduating in 1977. He was a great player on some very bad teams. I think he subsequently got voted into the Lehigh Hall of Fame and served on the Board of Trustees.
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Post by TMH » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:37 pm

Sorry..I missed your reply on Brown.

Yes..Reed is Neal's son.
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Post by RichH » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:49 pm

Thanks T. According to record book Neal a good PG.
Even fewer in my time.
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Post by jimk72 » Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:25 am

I'm from the 1968 - 1972 era. No one that I know of in basketball in those years. However we had a great nationally ranked wrestler and a great classmate in Herbie Campbell. He still lives in the Lehigh Valley by the way.
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Post by RichH » Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:42 am

Your era seems to be the start. Football brought in Plummer and Jennings . My era a bit ahead of you. There were black students.but very very few. Football was very local. Early 60s pre Dunlap, Lehigh recruited almost exclusively in the LV, Eastern Pa and South Jersey.
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Post by Bison_137 » Thu Jun 06, 2019 11:44 am

It's amazing how different things were 50 years ago. I think, although I'm not certain, that Bucknell's first black players were two who first played in 1969-70. Then they added a third (Elgin Baylor's nephew) the next year. During Jim Valvano's tenure (1972-75), he brought in six black recruits - plus a couple more who Admissions rejected.
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Post by RichH » Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:00 pm

A different era for sure. Our colleges were much more local and homogenous. My freshman year, there was a rumor that LU had a quota system , 1/3 Protestant, 1/3 Jewish and 1/3 Catholic. Likely untrue but it does capture the early 60s. Late 60s early 70s the awakening with coeds and minority student recruitment. Partly a change in philosophy but mostly a necessity for LU et al. Competition for quality students and atletes was increasing by leaps and bounds.
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Post by LU808 » Thu Jun 06, 2019 1:19 pm

"Our colleges were much more local and homogeneous."

Hard to believe there were few qualified Blacks in the LV / ABE / Philadelphia area at the time. Sees more like a recruitment admissions blind spot that got eventually corrected. In the early 70s we started to adjust our female & minority ratios.
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