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 to make the University of Georgia football team’s roster, will be honored at an award ceremony on Sept. 29. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the Association for ...

Atlanta native James "Jim" Hurley made history when he put on the jersey and made the roster of UGA's freshman football team.

D.C., where Hill became the first Black player on the football team. Then, he did it again at the Naval Academy. "I was the first African-American to play football for any military academy." ...

Black players had previously represented ... as well as the First Division – the old name for the top-flight of English football – with Nottingham Forest and the FA Cup and Football League ...

Berwanger isn’t the only player to be drafted first in the NFL and not play a game; tragically, the Heisman Trophy’s first black recipient, Ernie Davis, was picked first in 1962 but died of leukemia ...

AP Berwanger isn’t the only player to be drafted first in the NFL and not play a game; tragically, the Heisman Trophy’s first black recipient, Ernie Davis, was picked first in 1962 but died of ...