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The Herald
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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In Norfolk, Virginia, 16-year-old Andrew Heidelberg, the first Black youth to report for varsity football at integrated Norview High School, poses a challenge due to a 1958 Virginia Legislature resolution discouraging integrated public school sports, though not forbidding them.
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Norfolk, Va., (CNS) - 16 year old Andrew Heidelberg, a Negro youth, is posing an interesting problem to Norview High School. He has become the first of his race to report for varsity football at one of Virginia's newly integrated schools.
It's too early to tell yet if Heidelberg makes the team but it's not too early to speculate. The school's 10 game schedule would be threatened should he be a member, for the Virginia Legislature passed a resolution in 1958, discouraging integrated public school sports.
Now, Norview can get around this since the Legislature did not forbid integrated sports - providing it wants to.
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Norfolk, Va.
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too early to determine if heidelberg makes the team; school's 10-game schedule threatened but can proceed as legislature did not forbid integrated sports.
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16-year-old Andrew Heidelberg, a Negro youth, reports for varsity football at Norview High School, one of Virginia's newly integrated schools, becoming the first of his race to do so.