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BYU to honor the Black 14, a group of former Wyoming football players who once protested LDS church policy
BYU on Saturday night will recognize members of the Black 14, a group of former Wyoming players kicked off the team in 1969 for wanting to protest a Latter-day Saints church policy that prohibited Black men from becoming priests. Black 14 members Mel Hamilton and John Griffin will serve as "Y Lighters" and be honored before BYU's home game against Wyoming. In 1969, Hamilton, Griffin and 12 of their Black teammates requested to wear black armbands for the BYU game as part of a protest by the school's Black Student Alliance against the LDS church priest policy. Wyoming coach Lloyd Eaton kicked them off the team. The honoring of the Black 14 comes after Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, who is Black, said she repeatedly heard a racial slur directed at her during a Aug. 26 match at BYU from someone sitting in the BYU student section. BYU conducted an "extensive review" of the incident and found no evidence of racial heckling. The school lifted a ban on a fan it had barred from athletic events immediately after Richardson's allegations.
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