The '23 squad included the first African American football player and first African American letterman at UW, halfback Hamilton Greene. And it was the first season that UW ended its season in the ...

The Pawtucket YMCA team, and later, the Pawtucket Free Wanderers, were also home to the earliest known professional ...

UW's first Black basketball player arrived in the Northwest due to his father's job at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

Ernie Davis succeeded at every venue, a three-sport standout in high school, a two-time All-American ... national football championship. As a senior in 1961, he became the first African-American ...