The 1960 Miller Buccaneers: Pioneering a New Era in Texas Football

The 1960 Corpus Christi Miller Buccaneers football team became the first integrated team in Texas to win a UIL state football championship. On the team were players from three different ethnic backgrounds. There were 18 white players, 17 Hispanic players and six black players. In a time in America when racial discrimination and dissent remained rampant, Buccaneer head football coach Pete Ragus brought his players together in harmony with no racial issues among teammates to win their way to the Class 4A state title. Along the way, the team faced racial bias and discrimination particularly on the road at games away from home. But they prevailed and many of the team members went on to play in college and even in the NFL. Then there were many of them who have gone on to very successful lives in a variety of fields while some had other life issues arise after Miller that took away from the heady days of being pioneers in the way that football is now played all over Texas and the rest of the United States. That part of their story is also in this book

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