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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 College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions. The original use of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Week's Sports. [1]
FAMU Black College Football National Championship Seasons 1938 Black College National Champions William M. Bell 8–0 SIAC 1942 Black College National Champions William M. Bell 9–0 SIAC
During the 1940s, African-Americans were excluded from many college football programs and played the game at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The major All-America selectors in these years did not include players from HBCUs.
The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled in the 1950s the first list of All-Americans, including first-team selections ...
The College Football All-America Team is an honorific college football all-star team compiled after each NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) season to recognize that season's most outstanding performers at their respective positions. There are several organizations that select their own All-America teams.
The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association 's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled in the 1950s the first list of All-Americans, including first-team selections ...
He was the first African American to be honored as an All-American. [4] [8] In November 1893, Harvard's team captain was unable to play in the last game of the season due to an injury. The game was Lewis's last college football game, and the team voted him as the acting captain for the game, making him Harvard's first African-American team captain.