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Maryland Finally Remembers Wilmeth Sidat-SinghMaryland will honor former Syracuse standout Wilmeth Sidat-Singh when the teams meet on Saturday, 76 years after they banned him from playing after discovering he was black instead of a West Indian Hindu....

Seventy-six years later, Maryland is still having identity issues....

76 Years Later, Maryland Tries To Right A College Football WrongIn October 1937, Maryland administrators threatened to cancel a game with Syracuse unless the then-Orangemen benched their offensive star, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The problem, as Maryland saw it, was that he wasn't the right type of colored boy....