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 that's 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..
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