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left to play in the game, 10 black students walked onto the floor and stopped the game. It took a solid cordon of police and university security guards to restore order so that the game could be completed. B.Y.U. lost 90-77. The outspoken distaste for Mormon racial doctrine is reflected in the remarks of B.Y.U.'s basketball team members, none of whom are Mormons. Jim Miller, a 6' 5" junior and starting guard: "I don't know that much about church doctrine, but as far as calling the institution racist, well, I think most whites are racist. I went to school and played ball with blacks. When I go home now, I feel a little uneasy about saying that I go to B.Y.D. Sometimes I just don't say. I think the protesters have a legitimate case. I think they have an argument in many ways." Veikko Vainio, 6' 9" junior center from Finland: . "I have to represent the school, but I see the cause too. I am embarrassed by the situation. I can't see any justification for the racial discrimination. The church tries to justify it, but that's not enough for me. I have already told my son that the worst thing that can happen to him is to grow up in Provo, Utah (the location of B.Y.D.). My wife is a Mormon, but I've opened her eyes.... Living in Provo at B.Y.D. is like living in a closed box. No outside influences, nothing gets through. These are some of the reasons why I will be leaving this country and going back to Finland as soon as I graduate." Larry DeLaittre, 6' 7" junior: "I sympathize completely with the protesters because I've been brought up that way. Sometimes when I'm playing basketball for B.Y.D. I want to grab somebody and scream, "I'm Catholic! I'm Catholic!" Players at other Utah colleges are also doing "their thing" against Mormon racial policies. All-American forward Marv Roberts of Utah State University recently stated: "(B.Y.U.) is not just another ball club. When Preface to the Paperback Edition • xvi you play that school, it is a special challenge if you are a black player. You try harder; you help beat this thing by beating their pants off on the court." Nate Williams, forward, Utah State University declares: "I play my heart out against B.Y.U. What the racist Mormon doctrine tells me is that the white athlete is by nature a better athlete and human being than the black. Now, if they don't want black in their program-groovy-because I don't want to go there. But I am going to disprove that doctrine." Ironically the basketball coach at Utah State is a Mormon! Apparently everyone has gotten the message regarding racist Mormon ideology except the body that determines policy for the Mormon Church. For in January, 1970, that body voted to reaffirm the Mormon doctrine that blacks are inferior as human beings. So in all likelihood, we will see this issue continue to fester and inflame the intercollegiate athletic scene. On the international scene South Africa's apartheid policies have become the target of attacks stemming not only from this country but from many countries in Europe as well. South African sports officials have been put on notice that any team or individual representing South Africa will encounter demonstrations and protests if they attempt to participate in athletic events in America or Europe. Several incidents have helped drive the message home. Gary Player, the premier professional golfer from South Africa, was doused with soft drinks and verbally abused by protesters in Dayton, Ohio. Player later denounced the racist policies of his country and stated that "... if they continue, South Africa's participation in international sports is doomed." Player has recently announced plans to form a tour with prominent black golfers participating to benefit the United Negro College Fund and has spoken out strongly against the exclusion of Papwa Sewgolum, a non-white, from the South African open. Black golfers vetoed the tour. Preface to the Paperback Edition • xvii
Before, during, and after a rugby game played in England between Oxford University and a touring South African team, the South Africans were constantly accompanied by a squad of police to protect them from English student demonstrators. During another game on the tour, fences were erected around the athletic field to restrict the movement of fans and no refreshments were sold to prevent fans from showering the South African players with bottles and cartons. On several other occasions, as many as five thousand demonstrators fought with police trying to break up what was termed by Peter Hain, 19-year-old chairman of the Stop the South African Tour Committee, as an attempt ". . . to turn South Africa's participation in international sports into a farce." In Dublin, Ireland, three thousand people turned out to demonstrate against the touring South Africans. The incident is all the more striking in light of the fact that Northern Ireland is still in the throes of what amounts virtually to a civil war. The demonstration was ultimately broken up by the Irish police since, in their words "It constituted a threat to public calm." These international protests have lent added thrust to the movement against South Africa's participation in international athletics, a movement which started before the 1968 Olympic Games and resulted in South Africa's being banned from the games. But again, seemingly everyone has gotten the message except the ruling body in South Africa responsible for setting that countries policies on race and athletics. On January 28, 1970, South African Sports Minister Frank Waring announced that Arthur Ashe would "not be allowed to enter South Africa as a member of the United States team to compete in the South African open tennis championships or for any other reason due to Ashe's general antagonism toward South Africa's racial policies." World reaction to this blatant act of racial discrimination was immediate. Even South Preface to the Paperback Edition • xviii Africa's own athletes spoke out against it. Gary Player stated: "The Arthur Ashe case is probably the last straw to make our isolation in the field of sport complete." Cliff Drysdale, South Africa's leading tennis player, said: "For this ridiculous act, we are going to be kicked out of the Davis Cup matches. But this will only be the immediate consequence. The present rugby tour demonstrations will be a Sunday school picnic compared to what South Africa's teams and individual athletes will face abroad from now on." Vernon Slavin, a South African swimmer stated: "I can see that soon all South African athletes will be barred from the United States as a result of this. They cannot continue to let us [into the United States] when their citizens can't come here. After that it is only a matter of time before we wind up competing against each other here because no other country will have us." So the battle against apartheid is still being waged and will be intensified if necessary until South Africa either changes its policies or that country's athletes have been barred effectively from all international competition. The spread of unrest and protest against athletic exploitation and injustice to schools such as Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregon State, and others indicate that the revolt will not soon die-in spite of setbacks along the way. At Indiana, 14 black athletes were summarily kicked. off the football team and also lost their athletic grants-in-aid. At Wyoming every black member of the football team was dropped from the squad for wearing black armbands to protest a game to be played against B.YD. But such acts of retaliation only serve to feed the flames of the revolt. Professional athletics have by no means been immune from the impact of the revolt. Curt Flood currently has a million dollar suit in court filed against Preface to the Paperback Edition • xix
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