1, 1949. This discriminatory event sparked much controversy, not only within Lafayette College, but across the country. Lafayette decided not to send its team to the Sun Bowl in response to the Sun Bowl Committee's decision to exclude Showell from the game due to the segregation laws in Texas, which led to large student protests at the college against racial discrimination. In 1951, Showell graduated from Lafayette College and earned his bachelor's degree in business. After his undergraduate years, Showell attended the University of Wisconsin Law School. Death He was critically injured in a traffic accident on December 23, 1955, when a coal truck he was driving overturned; he died hours later at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, at the age of 31. See also Dogfights (TV series) Executive Order 9981 Freeman Field Mutiny List of Tuskegee Airmen Military history of African Americans The Tuskegee Airmen (movie) Tuskegee Airmen References Further reading 1924 births 1955 deaths African-American players of American football American football halfbacks Lafayette Leopards football players People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Pennsylvania Road incident deaths in Pennsylvania Tuskegee Airmen University of Wisconsin Law School alumni Aviators from Pennsylvania Truck road incident deaths 20th-century African-American people