Apparently Doak Campbell was a racist:
Former Florida State player wants Doak Campbell's name removed from school's football stadium, creates petition
Former Florida State player wants Doak Campbell’s name removed from school’s football stadium, creates petition
If former Florida State linebacker Kendrick Scott gets his way, the Seminoles will no longer host opponents in a stadium named after the school’s first president, Doak Campbell. While Campbell helped Florida State grow from its early days as a women’s college, he also held a pro-segregation attitude when it came to Florida State.
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Scott has created a petition to have the name given to Florida State’s stadium changed.
Here’s the petition Scott has created, as he’s seeking to have Bobby Bowden’s name put on the stadium instead of Campbell’s:
“The stadium at FSU was named after Doak Campbell a former FSU President. While, the tradition has been preserved, in reflection his non inclusive views of blacks as a segregationist is divisive, therefore his name should be removed from a stadium that has been home to many Black football players helping to build the school and the tradition to what it has become today: a national treasure.
“Therefore, this petition seeks to change the name of the stadium to the Bobby Bowden Stadium and change Bobby Bowden field to Charlie Ward field. Charlie Ward was recently polled as the greatest Seminole of all time and rightfully so. He broke a modern day color barrier by being the first Black football player to win a Heisman Trophy at a Florida School. He remains the most decorated college football player in history.”
Scott played for Bowden from 1991 until 1994.