Thom Gossom, Jr. - Walk-On

This book is a wonderful reading experience for someone who was a student at Auburn during those early years when Auburn athletics was being integrated. I do remember Henry Harris, the first black athlete at Auburn. He was a basketball freshman in 1968-69, also my freshman year. James Owens, whose high school nephew has verbal committed to play at Auburn, was our first black football player a year after Henry. Thom Gossom came along a year after Owens. Thom Gossom claims the distinction of being the first black Auburn athlete to graduate, Gossom collecting his diploma in 1975. More coming.