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Homer E. Harris Jr. (March 4, 1916 – March 17, 2007) was an American college football player and coach. He attended the University of Iowa , where he played as an end and tackle and became the first African-American captain of a Big Ten Conference team.
Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic: Canton, OH: 2019 [39] Began with the relocation of the Black College Football Hall of Fame from Atlanta to Canton. Black Wall Street Classic [33] Tulsa, OK: Blues Classic [22] Fayetteville, NC: 2002 BoomBox Classic (informal name) Baton Rouge, LA & Jackson, MS: 2010 [40] Annual game between Jackson ...
Homer College, formerly Homer Seminary (active from 1880 to 1918), was a private Methodist school in Homer, Louisiana. [1] [2] [3] In 1880 a school was opened under the name "Homer Seminary" as an African American elementary and high school founded by members of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church or CME (Christian Methodist Episcopal Church since 1954); by 1910 the school was renamed Homer ...
The first college stadium field to be any color other than traditional green, as well as the only college to have a non-green field for 22 years (1986–2008). In 2011, the Mountain West Conference banned Boise from wearing their all-blue uniforms during home conference games, after complaints from other Mountain West coaches that it was an ...
Name College(s) played for Position Year inducted (link to HOF bio) Earl Abell: Colgate: Tackle: 1973: Alex Agase: Illinois, Purdue: Guard: 1963: Harry Agganis: Boston University
Contests including the Colored Championship games of 1920 and 1923 (which happened to feature members of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, although the games were not played for the conference title), the Chocolate Bowl (1935), the Steel and Vulcan bowls (1940s), the National Bowl (1947), and the National Football Classic (1954 ...
Homer Hill Norton (December 30, 1896 – May 26, 1965) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Centenary College of Louisiana from 1919 to 1921 and 1926 [1] to 1933 and at Texas A&M University from 1934 to 1947, compiling a career college football record of 143–75–18.
Homer Taylor Beatty (August 31, 1915 – March 16, 2000) was an American football player and coach best known for his coaching success at the junior college, college, and professional levels in central and southern California.