Part 3: The Third Rail (1960-70)

Saturdays in the South: A History of SEC Football

S01E03
September 17, 2019 79 min

Overview

In the 1960s, as Georgia Tech leaves the conference and the Civil Rights Movement becomes embedded in the history and image of the region, Bear Bryant, hired in 1958, becomes the face of Alabama - and SEC football. Meanwhile, other heroes of the era include Archie Manning at Ole Miss, and two-sport star Richmond Flowers Jr., who - with his father, Alabama's attorney general, fighting against Governor George Wallace - spurns the Crimson Tide for Tennessee.

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