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Macalester's Hudson: The first, but forgotten until now

By Jay Weiner
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

ST. PAUL , Minn. -- On Dec. 21, 1971, Don Hudson was named head football coach at tiny, academically elite Macalester College in St. Paul. He made history. It should have been headline-news type of history: He was the first black head football coach at a predominantly white college. Alas, no trumpets blared. In fact, no one seemed to notice. No one even mentioned the social significance of college football's racial barrier for head coaches being broken, even if at a small Midwestern school wit ...

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