This week Yale University announced that they hired Tom Williams, a defensive assistant coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, as their head coach for the next college football season. The hiring makes Williams the first Black head football coach in the university's 307 year history.Williams will be introduced on Wednesday at a press conference. He replaces Jack Siedlecki who is retiring from coaching after 12 seasons and will take an associate athletic director position with the school.
According to the Hartford Courant, Williams played linebacker at Stanford and was captain of the 1992 team that went 10-3. He never made it past the practice squad for the San Francisco 49ers but became a graduate assistant under Bill Walsh at Stanford in 1994. After that he went on to coach at Hawaii, Washington, Stanford and San Jose State, mostly in a defensive coaching position. He joined the Jaguars in 2007.
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By: muhammad on 1/10/2009 8:32PM
And the significance is what? Until we can get out of the first black this and the first black that we will always be stifiled! Notice we dont say the first white this the first Asian that the first Native this! Its the first Black disease lets cure it that the effects and affect of the first this has no more room in our hearts and minds.
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