COLUMBIA — Norris Stevenson, the former Missouri football player who became the first black player to accept a football scholarship at the school, died Saturday in St. Louis of cancer.
Former Missouri football player Norris Stevenson dies
Saturday, March 3, 2012 | 9:30 p.m. CST;
updated 12:17 p.m. CST, Monday, March 5, 2012
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