Recalling the day UD football routed the KKK

[struggle4progress]

Posted: 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015
By Tom Archdeacon

... At night, they burned crosses on the campus grounds. Around the city, the group vilified UD at public rallies, including a gathering at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds that drew 32,000, and it attacked the school in print in the pair of Klan newspapers — the Klan Kourier and the Ohio edition of the Fiery Cross — printed in Dayton.

Then, in December 1923, the Klan launched its most brazen attack on the UD. According to a Dayton Daily News report, some 40 carloads of Klan members converged on the school — which was on the first day of Christmas break — and along with their usual burning-cross harassment, they set off a dozen bombs around campus ...

Baujan said he went “to the halls and called out my biggest football players.” He brought them to the cemetery and told them to wait until the Klan gathered around their burning cross and then to “take after them” and “tear their shirts off … or anything else you want to do” ...

“Notre Dame is proud of it and brags about it ... We should be proud of it, too. Our students ... did what’s right and took a stand on hatred. That should be remembered ..."

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/sports/college/recalling-the-day-ud-football-routed-the-kkk/nn8x4/

[upaloopa]

1. I graduated from UD 1979

[struggle4progress]

2. I don't suppose that UD in that era was recruiting for its football team with the message

that students should be fit enough to chase off the white hoods

[upaloopa]

3. When I was there we had active Black Panther Party members.

They were almost as military as the ROTC group. They would march into the Student Union like soldiers in uniform. I don't think any KKK could have stood up to them.

[douglas9]

4. Notre Dame vs. Klan (1924)

An excellent book:

http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/12141/17989