Tigers Football Insider: Honoring a pioneer in Glenn Rogers Sr.
Glenn Rogers Sr. was the first Black player to join the University of Memphis football team. (Courtesy Memphis Athletics)
Rogers became the first Black athlete to join the Memphis football team when he walked on during the spring of 1968 and earned a scholarship during the spring of 1969.
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Frank Bonner II covers the Memphis Tigers. He is a top-10 APSE winner who covered Oklahoma State for the Tulsa World before joining The Daily Memphian in 2021. Bonner is a native of Indiana, where he started his career covering high school sports.
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