Sam "Bam" Cunningham, an All-American fullback at Southern California whose performance against Alabama was credited with helping to integrate football in the South before going on to a record ...

Correction/clarification: An earlier version of this story misstated Sam Cunningham's status in 1970. He was classified as a sophomore. Sam Cunningham, the former Southern California and NFL ...

Former USC and New England Patriots fullback Sam "Bam" Cunningham died Tuesday at his home in Inglewood, California, according to USC. He was 71. The cause of death had yet to be determined.

He would go on to star for the New England Patriots. By Richard Sandomir Sam Cunningham, a fullback for the integrated University of Southern California football team that in 1970 trounced Coach ...

The New England Patriots paid tribute to Sam “Bam” Cunningham on their web site. Cunningham played his entire nine-year NFL career with the Patriots. (Courtesy of New England Patriots ...

Several years after Sam “Bam” Cunningham helped an integrated USC football team whup an all-white Alabama team in 1970, Cunningham traveled to Montgomery, Ala., for a golf tournament.

Sam “Bam” Cunningham arrived on the USC campus from Santa Barbara, the town some one hundred miles north of Los Angeles from which Marv Goux, a great center and linebacker and later defensive ...

He rolls the cart to the edge of Neville Arena’s basketball court. Auburn University sophomore Sam Cunningham passes out basketballs in the land of the giants. Giants who admire him and are ...

It was September 3, 1968, my first day as a sports writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press, the opening day of football practice at Santa Barbara High School, and the first time I laid eyes on Sam ...