That was my mentality about it,” said Kevin McKinney ... nearly 50 years since the University of Wyoming banished 14 black players from its football team, but the decades-old dispute was ...

Boise State won more games than any Football ... said McKinney, an athletic department intern at the time. “‘We’re going to do well anyway.’” But the 14 weren’t just black players.

Before a 1969 matchup between the University of Wyoming and Brigham Young University, 14 black members of the UW football team approached head coach Lloyd Eaton to ask if they could wear a black ...

Before a 1969 matchup between the University of Wyoming and Brigham Young University, 14 black members of the UW football team approached head coach Lloyd Eaton to ask if they could wear a black ...

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 ...

is petitioning to get a Black 14 monument on the Wyoming campus. As a freshman, she won a statewide history contest by writing an essay on the impact of the football players.

Two members of the “Black 14″ — a group of Wyoming football players who were kicked off their team in 1969 for planning to protest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policies ...

BYU on Saturday night will recognize members of the Black 14, a group of former Wyoming players kicked off the team in 1969 for wanting to protest a Latter-day Saints church policy that ...

The College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia, kicked off Black History Month with a newly installed exhibit honoring members of the Wyoming Black 14 last week. In conjunction with the new ...

The title Black 14 refers to 14 African American football players who were dismissed from the University of Wyoming football team in 1969. According to the University of Wyoming, the players ...

Yomand Brown, who works with the College Football Hall of Fame, showcased the exhibit featuring the story of the Wyoming Black 14 and their impact on college football. "We all, as individuals ...