Early Life
Triplett, the son of a postal worker, was born and raised in the affluent Philadelphia suburb of La Mott, Pennsylvania. His reputation as a talented high school football player, combined with his upscale address, prompted the University of Miami to offer him a scholarship sight unseen, under the assumption Triplett was white. The then-segregated university rescinded the scholarship when they discovered Triplett was black.
Triplett instead earned a Senatorial Scholarship for his academics and chose to attend Penn State University in the fall of 1945.
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