In March of 1923, the annual Stanford-Cal team boxing match was canceled because Stanford did not want its boxers to compete against Cal's Black boxers
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.On Thursday, March 8, 1923, Cal received word that Stanford would not participate in the annual team boxing match scheduled to be held the next night in Berkeley because Cal was entering two boxers who were Black. It set off a series of series of competing passionate opinions presented in local newspapers.
The day before the scheduled team match, Stanford notified Cal officials that it would not participate in Friday’s meet because it would permit its white boxers to compete against Cal’s Black boxers. Part of the dispute was Stanford’s claim that Cal had agreed not to enter Black boxers in future meets against Stanford, while Cal officials insisted they had made no such agreement.
Later in the story was this information about Stanford’s decision: “Stanford in an official statement issued by Dr. W.H. Barrow, director of physical education at Stanford, while stating that there is no desire to draw the color line, adds that it felt that a boxing match between a white man and a Negro engenders race prejudice.”
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