Rams cornerback Cobie Durant was selected for the annual award that goes to a top professional football player who attended ...

The Black College Football Hall of Fame Board of Trustees will introduce the BCFHOF Class of 2025 at its 16th Annual Black College Football Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, presented by the Atlanta ...

FILE – St. Louis Cardinals football player Marlin Briscoe (86) is shown in August 1975. Marlin Briscoe, the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League, died Monday ...

James Hurley, the first Black player ... football team’s roster, will be honored at an award ceremony on Sept. 29. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the Association for the Study of African American ...

Before the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) merger in 1966, the AFL was known as almost the only place where Black football players had an opportunity to play ...

An Athens organization recently honored the first Black football player at the University of ... of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 1890, Frederick Douglas Patterson became the first Black football player at Ohio State ... that he would be the first African American that was a starter.

From their record-breaking plays to their advocacy on and off the field, Black ... players out of the NFL from 1934 to 1946. In the early 1900s, the NFL — then named the American Professional ...