Description
Tigers Lose At Platte City 21-14. - - (excerpted from longer article describing the football game) - - Following the game, as the players went to the school building, a group of residents of the Platte City community entered the dressing rooms, armed with clubs, pick handles, etc., and made threatening remarks to some members of the Plattsburg team and one of the coaches, stating that the Negro boys would not be allowed to use the showers.
Local officers were indifferent to the requests of the Plattsburg group for protection, and it was necessary for the Highway Patrol to be called to escort the team from the building and safely out of the vicinity.
There was no indication of unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of members of the Platte City squad nor by school officials, however. The game was a hard-fought one throughout, but unusually clean and free from penalties, and it is regrettable that the incident occurred.Date(s) of Creation
9/24/1954
