Army invites its first Black varsity football player(1966), Gary Steele, to Navy game

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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30498949/army-invites-first-black-varsity-football-player-gary-steele-navy-game

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Fans won't be allowed at the Army-Navy football game at West Point on Saturday because of COVID-19 restrictions, but Army athletic director Mike Buddie made an exception for Gary Steele.

Steele, a retired colonel, was one of about 30 Black students at the academy in the mid-1960s and became its first Black varsity football player in 1966, paving the way for others to follow in his footsteps.

"It's still hard for all of us to believe that it took until 1966 for the color barrier [on the football team] to be broken at West Point," said Steele's daughter, ESPN anchor Sage Steele.


The 74-year-old Steele, who also served as a football assistant coach at West Point, had to decline the offer to attend Saturday's game, his daughter said, because he is undergoing treatment for cancer back home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.


"The week of the game, he gets quite nervous," Sage Steele said. "It's really special to see. It's like it was yesterday [when he played in the game]."

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1. I'm just guessing now,

that Melania's double will go to this one.

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2. I'm wondering if Trump can shuffle through the McD wrappers and go to the game