[Spirit100]

Set your DVRs to showtime this evening to record this documentary about USC playing Bama prior to Bama integrating black athletes.

Should be a good peak into an ever changing time in our nations history during the 60s from the perspective of college football.

Check it out and we'll re-visit it later!

[Stardust]

What channel

[Westside]

Heres a link to more info. Sometimes Dusty I feel like I have to tell you everything.

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ss..._foot.html

[Westside]

The epic beatdown of the Alabama Crimson Tide by the USC Trojans at Birmingham’s Legion Field on Sept. 12, 1970, is the subject of a new documentary on the Showtime premium cable network.


The film, “Against the Tide,” will premiere at 9 p.m. CST on Friday, Nov. 15, on Showtime. To watch a preview, click on the video below.

That historic 1970 game -- in which John McKay’s visiting Trojans, with their all-black starting backfield, pounded Paul “Bear” Bryant’s all-white Crimson Tide 42-21 -- is viewed by many sports historians as the defining moment in Southern college football history that accelerated the integration of the Alabama football program.


DETAILS

What: “Against the Tide”

When and where: 9 p.m. CST Friday, Nov. 15, on Showtime

Wilbur Jackson, the first black to sign a football scholarship at Alabama, was a freshman and ineligible to play in 1970, but a year later, John Mitchell, the first black to dress out and start for the Tide, helped lead Alabama to a 17-10 upset of USC in Los Angeles.

“This game, and the integration of college football at Alabama under Coach ‘Bear’ Bryant, has been a fascinating and intriguing story for many years,” executive producer Ross Greenburg says in the “Against the Tide” press notes. “It is our intention to focus on the truth, and let the viewer separate fact from fiction and myth from reality.”

Directed by George Roy and narrated by Tom Selleck, the hour-long documentary features interviews with several players who participated in that 1970 game – including Alabama’s John Hannah, Scott Hunter and Steve Higginbotham and USC’s Sam “Bam” Cunningham, Jimmy Jones and John Papadakis, as well as former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who was an assistant on Bryant’s Alabama staff at the time.

Others interviewed include Crimson Tide and New York Jets legend Joe Namath, Birmingham native and former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines, and retired federal judge U.W. Clemon, Alabama’s first black federal judge.

[RELATED: "Three Days at Foster" documents the integration of UA football, basketball programs]

Here is the film’s synopsis from the “Against the Tide” press notes:

The documentary paints a vivid picture of the turbulent state of Southern culture during the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for integration. Did University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant and University of Southern California coach John McKay purposefully schedule the first game of the 1970 season – the first time a fully integrated team had played in Alabama – as a statement against segregation?

Or was it simply another game between two college football powerhouses whose coaches were close personal friends? What were Bryant’s and McKay’s motives for the last-minute addition of USC, a fully integrated team ranked by some as the No. 1 team in the country, to the 1970 Alabama schedule?

"Against the Tide" examines the role college football played in changing the outlook on segregation.

“Against the Tide” will air several more times on Showtime after its Nov. 15 premiere. For additional air dates, go to http://www.showtime.com.


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[Spirit100]

What channel

Set your DVR to showtime, set your DVR to showtime, set your DVR to showtime. I heard there was power in threes :biggrin:.

[RunItUpTheGut]

If you cant beat them in current day, chances are somewhere in history, you have won atleast one time nicker: