14 Black players were cut from Wyoming’s football team for wanting to wear black armbands during a 1969 BYU game.
Before kickoff in Saturday evening’s football matchup between Brigham Young University (BYU) and Wyoming University, commemorations were held honoring a group of 14 African-American student athletes who were cut from the Wyoming roster in 1969 after planning to protest a policy banning Black men from becoming priests in the church of Latter-day Saints.
When Wyoming’s Black Student Alliance in 1969 developed the idea to use an upcoming game against BYU as the stage to protest the rule, 14 Black players on the team expressed interest in wearing black armbands during the game in support. They were subsequently kicked off the team by then-coach Lloyd Eaton, per today!
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