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The Black college football national championship, also named the HBCU football championship, is a national championship honor that, since 1920, has been regularly bestowed upon the best College football teams among historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) within the United States.
The Black College Football Hall of Fame (BCFHOF) [1] is an American hall of fame for college football players, coaches and contributors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It was founded in 2009 in Atlanta, centrally located to many of the country's black universities. [2]
Damien Woody - retired professional football player; Jameis Winston - professional football player [56] Russell Wilson - professional football player [57] Bill Willis - former professional football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame; Hines Ward (African American father) - retired professional football player
Celebrating some of the greatest #Chiefs players of all time who played college football at HBCUs.
First African American professional basketball player: Harry Lew (New England Professional Basketball League) [13] (See also: 1950) First African-American professional American football player: Charles Follis [citation needed] [14] First African American boxing champion: Joe Gans, a lightweight [citation needed]
Dent, 57, a two-time SWAC Defensive Player of the Year, is the only JSU football player to be named a three-time All-American, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956 [26] and his number 13 jersey was the first to be retired at UCLA. [1] He was posthumously inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame. [27] His alma mater Abraham Lincoln High School has annually awarded the Kenny Washington Trophy to the school's best football player since 1949 ...
But Black college football quarterbacks aren’t one. There was Condredge Holloway, who made history at Tennessee as the first Black starting quarterback at an SEC school in 1972 .