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Jackie Robinson: When Football Was Ended By Kenny Washington

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Way back then when football was first created it was mainly white men who played. It was after WWII when all of that had changed. The compromise of racial segregation was ended by Kenny Washington in the NFL, he was the inspiration for other black men to play football in the NFL, and Now the NFL is Mostly Black athletes who work hard and love to play the sport. WWII had just ended and people like Jackie Robinson were just coming home from the second great World War. The Jim Crow laws had just been implied for blacks. Kenny Washington was in the NFL in 1946. Before he went to the NFL he went to UCLA with Jackie Robinson. They played baseball together and Washington hit over .300 on the varsity squad in the two years he played. Some people said that he was better than Jackie Robinson when it came to Baseball (Biography.com). In the year 1946 Kenny Washington was signed up with the Rams. In his first year his stats for football was 114 yards, 1 touchdown, an average of 5 yards per play, and only played 6 games in the year 1946 (NFL.com). During that time WWII Just ended. The League of Nations had been created after WWI to keep world peace After …show more content…

His stats for his last season playing were 2 touchdowns, 301 yards, an average of 5.3 yards per play, and played 10 games (NFL.com). Kenny Washington had a really big impact that Twenty years later the first black quarterback was Marlin Briscoe, who played for the Broncos (https://www.si.com/nfl/list-first-black-starting-quarterback-every-team). As the years went on hundreds of black men are now able to play in the NFL. The prices in 1948 were being raised. The average cost to live in a new house was $7,700.00 dollars and the average wages per year was $2,950.00 dollars. compared to 1946 when the price ranges for the average cost of a new house was $5,600.00 dollars The average salary per year was $2,500.00 dollars.

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