This Day in Sports History
On January - 16 - 2006
After African American fullback Sam “Bam” Cunningham led Southern Cal to a rout of Bear Bryant’s all-white Alabama football team in the early 1970s, Crimson Tide assistant coach Jerry Claiborne proclaimed: “Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in sixty minutes than Martin Luther King accomplished in twenty years.”
B I R T H D A Y S
Dizzy Dean b. 1911
A.J. Foyt b. 1935
Jack McDowell b. 1966
Roy Jones Jr. b. 1969
Albert Pujols b. 1980
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