wilson players participated in the first integrated high school football game ever played in the district, after the historic "brown v. board of education" decision came down in may, 1954. on december 4, 1954, five wilson players – don mcmurray, john webster, bob rogers, mike hixson, and leland phillips – played on a mixed black and white team before a crowd of 8,800 at griffith stadium. the integrated inter-high all stars beat st. john's, 12–7, to end the st. john's thirteen-game winning streak and capture the 1954 city football championship.