Joe Williams (running back, born 1947)
Born in Center, Texas, Williams attended Dunbar High School, where he helped the football team achieve a 26–3 record.Wyoming won all ten games in the regular season and was invited to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day.As a senior tri-captain in 1969, he was one of the fourteen African American players that were dismissed from the team after requesting to wear black armbands during a game against BYU, to protest the racial policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[7] The incident also affected the University to successfully recruit African American players for several years, with the football team posting only one winning season during the 1970s.Williams was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the twelfth round (309th overall) of the 1970 NFL draft, after dropping because of the perception left from the "Black 14" incident.