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In 1968,  Tony Jackson, a black captain of the SJSU football team, led the black players at SJSU on a boycott of the 1968 BYU game.  The players thought they would lose their scholarships over the incident, so it was a very serious decision for 18-21 year old students from mostly poor backgrounds to take.  Jackson, by the way, went on to become a Marine Corps general.  He was the SJSU commencement speaker a few years back.

A few years later The next year the Wyoming black players led a similar boycott of the BYU game, with very serious consequences for themselves and for the Wyoming program, that never really recovered.  Wyoming did remove the players, but this not only killed the team (it went from a top 15 team to a one-win team the next year,) it killed recruiting for years and years. 

http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/black-1...g-football

There is some precedent for this.  The results have been mixed.  But I think if you asked General Jackson today if he did the right thing, he would say emphatically "yes."

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In 1968,  Tony Jackson, a black captain of the SJSU football team, led the black players at SJSU on a boycott of the 1968 BYU game.  The players thought they would lose their scholarships over the incident, so it was a very serious decision for 18-21 year old students from mostly poor backgrounds to take.  Jackson, by the way, went on to become a Marine Corps general.  He was the SJSU commencement speaker a few years back.

A few years later The next year the Wyoming black players led a similar boycott of the BYU game, with very serious consequences for themselves and for the Wyoming program, that never really recovered.  Wyoming did remove the players, but this not only killed the team (it went from a top 15 team to a one-win team the next year,) it killed recruiting for years and years. 

http://www.wyohistory.org/essays/black-1...g-football

There is some precedent for this.  The results have been mixed.  But I think if you asked General Jackson today if he did the right thing, he would say emphatically "yes."