Since there’s no football for Duke Saturday, we thought we’d look back at some old-school Blue Devils football, specifically some video from a 1954 game with Army.
The world was very different in 1954. West Point’s integration was surely imperfect, but the first Black cadet was in 1877. In 1954, Duke was still several years away from integrating and its football team was entirely white, as was its coaching staff.
Liberal substitution was also several years away so the specialization we’ve all grown up with or a least accustomed to wasn’t a part of football yet.