Black College Football 1892-1992: One Hundred Years of History Education & Pride

In 1892 the men of Biddle University met their counterparts form nearby Livingstone College for a “match game of ball” on a snow-covered field in Salisbury North Carolina 23 years after Princeton and Rutgers had inaugurated college football. The Biddle and Livingstone players had no idea they were pioneering the sport for black colleges yet thats exactly what they did on December 27 of that year. Biddle took a controversial 4-0 decision and football at black colleges was off and running. This book documents the players coaches schools and other entitles which have participated in this rich athletic history which recently celebrated its centennial.