"In 1945, the team again played for the league title, losing to the Cleveland Rams. That was the last championship game the Marshall-owned Redskins would reach. In fact, from 1946 until the early 1960s, when Marshall’s deteriorating health prevented him from overseeing day-to-day operations, the team amassed just three winning seasons. There were many reasons, but prominent among them was the virulent racism of the owner."
In The New York Review of Books, Michael Tomasky reviews Thomas G. Smith's Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins.
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