Two former teammates disagreed on whether Mr. Trice was injured deliberately. But a former Iowa State athletic official said he believed Minnesota sought to sideline Mr. Trice because he was Black. Mr. Trice was taken to a hospital in Minneapolis, then accompanied his teammates back to Ames, Iowa, after a 20-17 defeat, lying painfully in a train car on a mattress fashioned from straw. On Oct. 8, two days after the game, Mr. Trice died in the Iowa State campus hospital. Years later, Cora Mae Trice, his wife, wrote that she looked at her husband in his hospital bed and told him, “Hello, Darling,” but he didn’t respond.

Source: New York Times July 20, 2020 06:56 UTC