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The 1949 Sun Bowl controversy refers to the student protests at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania after a Sun Bowl invitation was extended to the Lafayette Leopards football team under the condition that the African American player, David Showell, would not play. On November 19, 1948 Lafayette College was invited by the Sun Bowl Committee to play against the Texas College of Mines, now The University of Texas at El Paso.〔 Just four days later, on November 23, the Lafayette faculty voted to turn down the bid because the Sun Bowl Committee would not allow Showell to play. This bid rejection led to a large student demonstration on the Lafayette campus and in the city of Easton against segregation.〔 West Virginia University later accepted the bid after Lafayette's rejection. The Sun Bowl was played on January 1, 1949. West Virginia defeated the Texas College of Mines by a score of 21–12.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sunbowl.org/the_sun_bowl_game/recaps )〕 == Sun Bowl segregation history == The segregation policies of the Sun Bowl were in effect from the first Sun Bowl game played on January 1, 1935, in El Paso, Texas through the 1940s. In the case of the 1946 Orange Bowl, African American players Wallace Triplett and Dennis Hoggard could not participate due to the local police department's rules and the "incidents" that were expected to occur if they were allowed to play. This reasoning was synonymous with the Sun Bowl and other major bowl games of the 1940s. It was not until the 1946 Orange Bowl game when people began to put forth the argument that "the ideals of democracy are more important than any football game."〔 The Sun Bowl was established in the mid-1930s along with the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, the Orange Bowl in Miami, and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. While the Sun Bowl historically followed the southern racial segregation policies, the 1949 Sun Bowl made a major contribution to the future desegregation of college sports.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1949 Sun Bowl controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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