Alabama will hold its Golden Flake A-Day Game tomorrow, the name of their Spring football game. Pittsburgh Steelers assistant head coach John Mitchell will be in attendance, along with Wilbur Jackson, to be honored with a plaque that will stand outside the stadium, with a painting commissioned to commemorate them. They were the first two black players in the Crimson Tide’s history.
As Teresa Varley notes, Mitchell also became the first black player to serve as captain in the school’s history, as well as being the school’s first black player to be named All-SEC and All-American.