Harold White, the first African-American football coach in South Carolina history, has died.
White, 77, who was hired by Paul Dietzel as a graduate assistant in 1971, was inducted into the USC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.
“Coach Dietzel took me to lunch,” White told the university’s official website in 2016. “He felt like South Carolina needed a black coach. You had Freddie Solomon coming out of Sumter High School around that time, along with several other high profile black athletes who were coming out of some of the (South Carolina) high schools. A lot of the black guys around then went to schools in the Big 10.