On Monday’s episode of “The Drive with Jack,” show, Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller revealed the university’s plan to honor Duffy Daugherty’s 1960s teams that helped integrate college football with a statue.
Daugherty and Michigan State are widely regarded as the coach and institution that helped integrate college football. The Spartans won national championships in 1965 and 1966.
The statue will commemorate the iconic photo of Daugherty and five of Michigan State’s star Black student-athletes. Those athletes were Bubba Smith, Clinton Jones, Bob Apisa, Gene Washington and George Webster. Each of those players were All-Americans in 1966 and all of them are in the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame.