Charles F. West, M.D.
First African American quarterback in the Rose Bowl, 1922. At Washington & Jefferson College, he challenged racial discrimination in foot-ball by refusing an opposing team’s demand to bench him. West was a pentathlete on the 1924 Olympic team. He was a physician for 50 years.
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