Integration was not uncommon in the 1890-1910 era...it's after that where it is much more uncommon. Nebraska had black players on their football team during that era and then somewhere around 1905 teams like the U of Missouri would refuse to play if African Americans were allowed to play so like most teams (schools) they caved to this pressure....I don't believe the Huskers had another black player on the team until the 1950s.
Nearly every team in the Nebraska State League in 1892 had black players....the team was derisively called the "Coon League". Bud Fowler who appears on the Page Fence Giants photos you occasionally see played in this league for Lincoln and Kearney.
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