Curry chose to cross the color line and attend Gables, where he became known as "The Negro Quarterback".
After going 7-3 in his junior year, as a senior Curry lead his team to a 13-0 record, winning Florida's large school state championship, and eventually being named "The Team of The Century" by the Florida High School Athletic Association.
After the team won the national championship in 1967, Kotys stated that "Craig does all the thinking.
A Coral Gables High School guidance counselor advised him to drop science classes, because of the weakness of his math from Carver.
Curry then devoted himself to football at the expense of academics, a decision he regretted later in life.