Charles Harris, Penn's first Black athletic director, passed away on December 7. He was 71.
Despite an era of tight budgets and low morale in the late 1970s and early ’80s, Charles Harris found a way to come up with winning teams.When he took the position at Penn at age 29, he became both the youngest and the first Black athletic director in the history of the Ivy League.
“Pennsylvania represents a lot of the class things in college athletics,” Mr. Harris said in 1979 to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “And that’s with the full recognition that there are problems here.” The 1980-81 season saw the men’s fencing team capture the NCAA championship, with Paul Friedberg and Mary Jane O’Neill each winning individual titles.
Students were vocal with their disapproval of the move, but Mr. Harris’ bold decision accomplished exactly what he intended. Mr. Harris filed a formal request alongside student representatives that fans reform their behavior. The game between the two schools during the 1984 season returned to the Palestra without a hitch.
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