Opposing teams saw him as a showboat. While his teammates wore black shoes, Foster preferred to wear white shoes, a la New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath.

"Some said I might have been a little cocky," Foster says. "They could have been right. Joe Nameth wore[the white shoes]. I idolized him, so I wore them."

Although Harvard never lost in the seven games he started, Foster was benched during the middle of his junior year and was eventually switched to fullback.

An all-purpose performer during his days at Harvard, Foster played quarterback, fullback, tailback, punter and returned kickoffs and punts.

People who give credence to stereotypes of Black athletes had only to look at this year's Olympic Games to see that those stereotypes are simply unjustified, McClusky says.

One example McCluskey cites is that of a Black swimmer from South America, Anthony Nesty, who won the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly.

"I swim here, and just last week, there was a physican talking about the different bone structure of Blacks," McCluskey says with irony.

"Where I grew up, we had one pool in our entire town, and everybody was there," he says. "What people have got to realize is that it's access. How is a Black kid supposed to become a great swimmer if there is no swimming pool, or become a quarterback if he is not given a chance?" Statistics of Black Harvard Quarterbacks John McCluskey '66

Passing

Year  Att  Comp  Int  Yds  Tds 1963  2  0  0  0  0 1964  50  15  1  145  0 1965  85  31  4  293  1 Total  137  46  5  438  1

Rushing

Year  Att  Yds  Avg  Td 1963  1  2  2.0  0 1964  44  211  4.8  3 1965  52  118  2.3  1 Total  97  331  3.4  4 Rodney Foster '73

Passing

Year  Att  Comp  Int  Yds  TD 1970  84  38  5  447  3 1971  67  34  8  286  2 1972  0  0  0  0  0 Total  151  72  13  733  5

Rushing

Year  Carr  Yds  Avg  TD 1970  66  383  5.8  8 1971  46  82  1.8  0 1972  32  229  7.2  2 Total  144  694  4.8  10