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John Mitchell and Wilbur Jackson already had their place in Alabama football history. Now, the Crimson Tide’s first Black players The post Alabama honors university’s first Black football ...
As a player, Mitchell was the first African-American to play football for the storied Alabama Crimson Tide. In his second year with the program he became the first African-American co-captain at the school. The next year, he became the team's first black assistant coach and also the youngest coach to have ever been hired at Alabama.
Since its inaugural class that year, Alabama has had 25 persons elected to the Hall of Fame as either a player or coach of the Crimson Tide. [2] The first Alabama inductees into the Hall of Fame were Don Hutson and Frank Thomas as part of the inaugural class in 1951. [3] The most recent inductee was Antonio Langham as part of the 2024 class.
Jackson was the first black player to be offered a football scholarship at the University of Alabama and was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. [1] [2] He owns the Alabama school record for yards per carry (7.2) for his career (1,529 yards on 212 attempts) from 1971 to 1973. Against Virginia Tech in 1973 he rushed for 138 ...
Alabama had six players earn first team All-America honors from the WCFF in 2020, the most in the history of Walter Camp voting. Alabama's 2020 roster features seven first team All-Americans to tie the 2011 roster for the most first-teamers in a single season in program history.
Walter Lewis (born April 26, 1962) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the United States Football League (USFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL). Lewis played college football at Alabama , [ 1 ] where he was the first African American quarterback to start for the Crimson Tide and legendary Hall of ...
Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. [2] He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University.
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 ]