By 1933, after an initial brush with integration in the late 1920s, all black players had left or been forced out of the National Football League. Lost Champions tells the story of Kenny Washington, star running back on the UCLA football team in 1939 who led the nation in total offense and became the first consensus All-American in UCLA football history, but who was not allowed to play in the NFL until 1946. Gretchen Atwood is a writer whose articles on professional football have appeared in LA Weekly, and is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association. She lives
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