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WATCH: Barrier-breaking Mountaineer Dick Leftridge Honored At WVU Sports Hall Of Fame Ceremony 

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A set of experiences producer for the WVU football program was cherished in the WVU Sports Hall of Fame Saturday. 사설토토

In 1962, Richard "Dick" Leftridge, a local of Hinton, West Virginia, turned into the main Black understudy competitor to get a football grant from WVU. Almost 60 years after the fact, Leftridge was enlisted into the school's games lobby of popularity as an individual from its 2020 class. 

"My dad was not just the main Black grant competitor here at WVU, yet all through the whole South," said Jeff Leftridge, who acknowledged the corridor of distinction honor Saturday for his late dad's sake. "Presently if it's not too much trouble, ponder this briefly — that is some genuine history. That is our set of experiences. That is Mountaineer history that ought to be imparted to the world." 

Leftridge and partner Roger Alford broke the shading hindrance for WVU football and the Southern Conference in 1963. 

Leftridge kept on impacting the world forever during his three seasons with the Mountaineers. He scrambled for 1,701 yards in his vocation, turned into the principal Black player to show up for the South in the North-South Shrine Game and was chosen third by and large in the 1966 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. 

No Mountaineer has at any point been chosen higher in the draft. 

"We should think about this: first round, third pick, first hostile player in the draft of '66, so what does that advise us? Best running back in the country, point of fact, and that story should be shared," Jeff Leftridge said. 

Leftridge played one season for the Steelers in 1966. He kicked the bucket in 2004.