Thanks, that's a great article. Here are just a few quotes from it, for those who don't click the link and read the whole article, that will give you a sense of the level of injustice involved in this case:
"Jack Taylor is an associate professor emeritus of ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University, and a former college athlete from the same period.
"He said that because black quarterbacks were very rare at the time, race might have played a role in Ealey being left off some All-American teams.
"'Given the climate at that time, it is certainly something to be considered,' Mr. Taylor said. 'You have to wonder if some voters just did not name Chuck Ealey because they were not ready to accept the fact that a black could play the position, and play it extremely well.'
"Because most of the electorate on those All-American panels from nearly a half century ago are deceased, that uncomfortable question will persist.
"There are a number of black quarterbacks in the College Football Hall of Fame - Major Harris, Andre Ware, Charlie Ward - but had Ealey been eligible for consideration and voted in, he would have been the Hall of Fame's first black quarterback. That distinction belongs to Doug Williams, who played at Grambling, a historically black college, from 1974-77 and was voted into the hall in 2001."
And then this, which I think really is a clincher of an argument:
"'If you put in place a rule that says that every guy who goes undefeated as a starting quarterback for three straight seasons will be considered for the hall, I don't think you'd open the floodgates,' Mr. Taylor said. 'I think there would be one guy - Chuck Ealey.'"
I surely hope that this injustice get rectified while Chuck is still on this side of the sod.