After 100 Years, Duke Slater Finally Gets His Due
The Lead
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🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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If you go back to the very FIRST season of the NFL -- a hundred years ago -- there were just a handful of black players. And one of them was Duke Slater. Slater was the first black lineman to suit up for the NFL. He was known for being unstoppable. And now, he will finally be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. As part of our Black History Month coverage at The Lead, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman to talk about Duke Slater’s legacy, from his college football days in Iowa to his achievements as a lawyer and a judge, and what it means that he will finally be honored in Canton.
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| 0:00.0 | If you go back to the very first season of the NFL 100 years ago, there were just a handful |
| 0:12.9 | of black players, and one of them was Duke Slater. |
| 0:19.1 | Slater was the first black lineman to suit up for the NFL. |
| 0:21.8 | He was known for being unstoppable, basically a one-man line, and now he'll finally be in |
| 0:28.2 | the Pro Football Hall of Fame. |
| 0:41.6 | As part of our black history month coverage here at The Lead, we're joined by the Athletics |
| 0:45.9 | Scott Doctorman to talk about Duke Slater's legacy. |
| 0:49.8 | From his college football days in Iowa to his achievements as a lawyer and a judge, and |
| 0:55.3 | what it means that he will finally be honored in Canton. |
| 0:59.7 | From Wondering on the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:03.0 | It's Friday, February 7th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:06.8 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:12.1 | There was just something about the emotion and that moment. |
| 1:16.2 | The first, the first. |
| 1:17.2 | The first, the past, don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:20.2 | You can't pay. |
| 1:21.2 | I've never seen anything like that. |
| 1:22.2 | That's not good. |
| 1:23.2 | This isn't a story where the interview of the athlete will hold. |
| 1:27.4 | It stays with you. |
| 1:30.2 | Hey, prime members. |
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