Former USC fullback Sam "Bam'' Cunningham, whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South, died Tuesday. He was 71. University of Southern ...

Sam Cunningham, the former Southern California and NFL running back who played an outsize role in the integration of college football in the South, died Tuesday at 71, according to Southern Cal.

By Richard Sandomir Sam Cunningham, a fullback for the integrated University of Southern California football team that in 1970 trounced Coach Bear Bryant’s all-white Alabama squad, died on ...

LOS ANGELES — Sam “Bam” Cunningham, an All-American fullback at Southern California whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South and who ...

No cause of death of death was given. Several years after Sam “Bam” Cunningham helped an integrated USC football team whup an all-white Alabama team in 1970, Cunningham traveled to Montgomery ...

Sam "Bam" Cunningham, an All-American fullback at Southern California whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South before going on to a record ...

(Courtesy of New England Patriots) Sam Cunningham, a legendary sports figure at Santa Barbara High who went on to star in football at USC and played nine years in the NFL with the New England ...

(Image courtesy of USC Athletics) Former three-time All-American fullback, College Football Hall of Famer and USC legend Sam “Bam” Cunningham died Tuesday at his home in Inglewood, Calif. at the age ...

Cunningham excelled in both football and in track and field for the Dons in the ... and Santa Barbara High School recently named the new track at Peabody Stadium in their honor. Sam was unable to ...

LOS ANGELES — Sam “Bam” Cunningham, an All-American fullback at Southern California whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South and who ...