“The Story of How K-State Integrated the Big 12 Conference” by Ken Neaderhiser
In the fall of 1949, K-State football players Harold Robinson and Hoyt Givens broke the Big 7 (now Big 12) Conference’s color barrier, competing at and against segregated schools in direct defiance of conference norms. Their courage marked one of the earliest integrations in collegiate athletics. Led by the university president Milton Eisenhower, who championed […]

