A quote I read in a magazine:
“In September 1970, Southern Cal running back Sam Cunningham steamrolled the all-white Alabama Crimson Tide in Birmingham. An Alabama coach said Cunningham did more to integrate the South in sixty minutes than Dr. King did in twenty years. The black running back touched a Southern nerve – ‘winnin’ – that was perhaps greater than the myth of white supremacy….”
From “When we were Young and Confederate” by Jeremy Collins.