Baylor attended the College of Idaho in 1954 and joined the basketball team along with five other Black students, living on campus in his first experience of an integrated community. In the 1954 ...

The Elgin Baylor Arena was filled with purple during the banner-raising ceremony following The College of Idaho men’s basketball team’s achievement of their second NAIA national championship.

It was an Elgin. "And that's what he named me after," said Baylor, no doubt relieved that ... He finally accepted a football scholarship at tiny College of Idaho -- a friend of his was going ...