1937 Maryland Terrapins football team

Schedule

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Syracuse game and Wilmeth Sidat-Singh

Syracuse and nearby Cornell were among the first collegiate football teams to include African-American players as starting backfield players. Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, starred for Syracuse, playing a position equivalent to modern-day quarterback.

In that era, when games were played in Southern segregation states, African-American players from Northern schools were banned from the field. Because of his light complexion and name, Sidat-Singh was sometimes assumed to be a "Hindu" (as people from India were often called by Americans during this time). However. shortly before a game against Maryland, a black sportswriter, Sam Lacy, wrote an article in the Baltimore Afro-American, revealing Sidat-Singh's was African-American. Maryland refused to let him play and he was held out of the game and Syracuse lost the game 0–13. In a rematch the following year at Syracuse, Sidat-Singh led the Orange to a lopsided victory (53-0) over Maryland.

On Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, the University of Maryland publicly apologized to surviving relatives at a ceremony during a football game at Syracuse.

References

References

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11. (November 26, 1935). "Maryland wins undisputed rank as Washington's top grid team". The Evening Star.
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14. (23 October 2022). "'AS EVER, SINGH': Wilmeth Sidat-Singh was Syracuse's 1st Black star athlete". [[The Daily Orange]].
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