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Duke Lost Signee

Duke University signed its first
colored football player in 1966,
but the boy flunked out after one
year.

That same year, C. B. Claiborne
matriculated at Duke on an
academic scholarship. Claiborne
came out for basketball and has
been a capable reserve for Coach
Vic Bubas. Recently, Duke recruiters
signed two Negroes for the
coming football season, the first
grants to Negroes since the first
boy flunked out two years ago.

Charlie Scott, whose story is
detailed elsewhere on this page,
became the first black athlete to
receive a scholarship from the
University of North Carolina in
1966.