Legal Opinion
Joe Harold Williams v. Lloyd Eaton, as Football Coach of the University of Wyoming
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 14, 1971No. 297-70PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.
On October 18, 1969, a football game was scheduled in Laramie, Wyoming, between the University of Wyoming (hereafter the University) and Brigham Young University (hereafter BYU). BYU is a university located at Provo, Utah, and is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This controversy involves the complaint of Black athletes at the University against alleged racial policies of the Mormon Church and by athletes playing for BYU. And the case concerns also a “football coaching rule” of the Wyoming University Coach that football players at…
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