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Lane College's primary purpose was to educate newly freed slaves. Lane's campus is about 25 acres, just northeast of downtown Jackson, Tennessee. Along with Lane, Jackson is also home to Union University and Lambuth University. Lane's football stadium is Rothrock Stadium, also referred to as "Lane Field." It was built in the 1930s and served as ...
The team was ranked No. 18 among the nation's black college football teams according to the Pittsburgh Courier and its Dickinson Rating System. [2] The team played its home games at Lane College Athletic Field and Rothrock Field, both located in Jackson, Tennessee. [3]
[3] [4] It became Lane Institute in 1883. [5] In 1887, Rev. T. F. Saunders, a White former enslaver, and a member of the Memphis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was appointed the first president of Lane Institute. [6] In 1896 the college department was formed, and the Board of Trustees voted to change the name to Lane ...
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Rothrock Stadium is a stadium in Jackson, Tennessee.It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of Lane College. [1] Built in the 1930s, it originally served as the home field of the Union University Bulldogs, until Union ended its football program in the early 1950s.
The Dickinson System rated Lane as the No. 5 black college football team for 1946, behind No. 1 Tennessee A&I, No. 2 Morgan State, No. 3 Tuskegee, and No. 4 Wilberforce. [2] Lane ranked first among the black college teams in scoring defense.
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