COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cornelius Green first met Dwayne Haskins Jr. in 2018 before the Rose Bowl. Green was a star quarterback for Ohio State from 1973-75 as the first Black player to start at that position for the Buckeyes. Haskins was also a pioneer of sorts, concluding a season that raised the bar for OSU quarterbacks. “I’ll never forget coming up to Dwayne,” Green said Monday. “I introduced myself and boy, he came up with a big smile.” Haskins might not have met Green before, but he knew what he had done. They posed for pictures, one of which Haskins posted on Twitter. “It said, ‘Thank you, sir, for being the first African-American quarterback at Ohio State. If it wasn’t for you, he wouldn’t have had the opportunity to play,’ ” Green recalled. “I thought that was the biggest compliment anybody can give someone else, especially another quarterback like himself.…
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