Like Father, Like Son

ID: 3232 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of UW Archives. “Lew Ritcherson Jr.,” photograph. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019. https://diversity.wisc.edu/2019/12/remembering-uws-first-black-football-coach/.
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Lewis Ritcherson Jr. enjoyed football as much as his father. The two would often watch film together, and Lewis Jr. knew his father’s playbook better than anyone else on the team.

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By Maria Petrolia
Lewis “Les” Ritcherson, born in Hillsboro, Texas in 1926, was the first African American to coach at the University of Wisconsin and the second African American football coach in the Big Ten.…