Syracuse University Integrates Football Stadium – Women and Men Can Now Sit Together!
Syracuse University on this day announced that male and female students will be permitted to sit side-by-side at home football games.
Sex-segregated seating had begun in 1908, reportedly according to “old-timers,” to assure co-eds of seats” in the stadium, as reported in The New York Times on this day. Vice Chancellor Finla G. Crawford explained that there no longer any objection to “mixed seating.”
The Times reported that “Various student groups had protested the segregation.” The story in the Times did not mention whether or not seating in the stadium had also been racially segregated.
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