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Fifty years and 20-hour bus rides since Southern University and Athens shared an exchange
By FLETCHER PAGE
updated Sunday, September 27, 2015 - 2:22am
Aaron Heard and his talented Burney-Harris High teammates couldn’t play football for the University of Georgia.
Not in 1965.
So Heard and his buddies boarded a bus in Athens bound for Baton Rouge and Southern University, where black players were welcome and the competition was as fierce as today’s Southeastern Conference.
“It took us 20 hours to get there,” Heard said ...
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