His appointment as Penn’s athletic director at age 29 made Harris both the youngest and the first Black athletic director in Ivy League history.
Charles Harris, the first Black athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1985, passed away earlier this month at age 71.
The Philadelphia Inquirer today!
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