Chicago Tribune posts Raye of Light story

Thanks to the Chicago Tribune for using Ed Sherman's story on "Raye of Light" first posted on www.shermanreport.com.

Click here: Shermanreport.com book report posted on Raye of Light

Click here: Chicago Tribune picks up Sherman Report on Raye of Light

More national attention will hopefully result in more people understanding Duffy Daugherty's Underground Railroad is an "untold" story and that Jimmy Raye has played a role changing the face of the game as the South's first black quarterback to win a national title, as a pioneer black coach and as a mentor to many coaches, including Tony Dungy.

Growing up as a kid in Big Rapids, Mich., I read the Detroit Free Press sports section religiously and looked through the Chicago Tribune pages with wonder anytime I could get my hands on it.

Kids today will have a hard time understanding "anytime I could get my hands on it," but that's how much technology has changed communication -- not to mention the newspaper industry. I once spoke to a high school journalism class and explained how I ran to the front door every morning to get the scores in the Free Press and imagined writing a story on one of the games.

When I noticed the blank looks staring back at me, I explained to them this was before ESPN and cell phones.

The last time my name was in the Chicago Tribune was spring break in 1977 when a group of us from Wonders Hall rented a motorhome and drove to Fort Lauderdale. We were cruising down one of the main drags when we came across a Chicago Tribune feature writer assigned a story on college students invading Fort Lauderdale for spring break. He came aboard when we were at a stop light and used a quote from me. I wish I could tell you I said something profound.

The "Raye of Light" story in the Chicago Tribune, of course, is much more rewarding.

A premise of the “Raye of Light” is placing the proper credit for the integration of college football with the ground-breaking roles played by Michigan State, Jimmy Raye and Duffy Daugherty. Raye was the South's first black quarterback to win a national title.

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Tom Shanahan, Author: Raye of Light http://tinyurl.com/knsqtqu

-- Book on Michigan State's leading role in the integration of college football. It explains Duffy Daugherty's untold pioneering role and debunks myths that steered recognition away from him to Bear Bryant.

http://shanahan.report/a/the-case-for-duffy-and-medal-of-freedom

Don’t believe the myths at Duffy Daugherty’s expense about Bear Bryant’s motivation to play the 1970 USC-Alabama game or myths about the Charlie Thornhill-for-Joe Namath trade. Bear Bryant knew nothing about black talent in the South while he dragged his feet on segregation.

http://shanahan.report/a/myths-that-grew-out-of-1970-alabama-game-with-usc

http://shanahan.report/a/mystery-solved-in-thornhill-and-namath-myth

David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner and biographer; "History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in." 

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