James Hurley, the first Black player to make the University of Georgia football team’s roster ... the Association for the Study of African American Life and History will award Hurley the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A former Pitt football player and the first Black player to play in the Sugar Bow, Bobby Grier has died at age 91, according to the University of Pittsburgh. Grier played ...

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).

In 1971, Lora Hinton, Jr. became the first Black scholarship football player at LSU. However, there were players and community members that were furious that he was allowed to join the team.

He was the only Black football player on the Iowa team ... is the only major college football stadium named for an African-American. INTERVIEWER: Take us back to October of 1923.

This honor is presented annually by the Black College Football Hall of Fame to the most outstanding player in HBCU football. He is the first player since 2018 from a Division II school to win the ...

However, when you have a big representation of African-American players that are ... high school or youth football. More than 90% were encouraged by the number of Black head coaches getting ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which ...