Even though Turner Gill got shafted and the NCAA has an atrocious record of Black head football coaches, Tom Williams continues to carry the torch by becoming Yale’s first African-American head football coach.
A Rhodes scholar and Stanford alum, Coach Williams was praised by former Yale coaches as the perfect fit for the position. With the obvious and intense pressure of Ivy League academia, the balance Yale student athletes learn starts and becomes re-enforced by their coach.
While I’ve never actually gotten into the Harvard-Yale football rivalry, known as ‘The Game’, Coach Williams definitely has his work cut out for him as Yale has lost the match-up 7 of the last 8 years. Asked about the historical significance of being the first Black head football coach for Yale:
Movement is glacial. It’s happening, but it’s glacial, [a]nd I’m proud to wear that banner for African-American coaches.
BigUps Tom Williams!
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