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Nathaniel "Nate" Northington (born 1947) was the first African-American to play college football in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). [1] He became the first black scholarship athlete to play in an athletic contest of any kind in the SEC when his University of Kentucky Wildcats opened their 1967 season against Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana on September 23 of that year.
Sylvester Croom Jr. (born September 25, 1954) is an American former football player and coach. He was the head coach at Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008, and the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.
Jackie Eugene Walker (April 14, 1950 – December 5, 2002) was an American football linebacker who played for the University of Tennessee from 1969 to 1971. A two-time All-American, he was the first black captain of a Southeastern Conference squad. Walker shares the NCAA record for most interceptions returned for a touchdown, with five.
First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006) First African American to become majority owner of a U.S. major sports league team: Robert L. Johnson (Charlotte Bobcats, NBA) [Note 7] (see also 2001) First African American to hold the #1 rank in tennis: Venus Williams
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 .
When LSU made John Mitchell SEC's first Black coordinator in 1990, who knew he'd go on to connect to 14 national titles and nine Super Bowl titles.
In so doing Holloway became the first African-American to start at the quarterback position in a Southeastern Conference school. [5] In addition to being the first black quarterback at Tennessee and in the Southeastern Conference, Holloway also was the first black baseball player in Tennessee history. The outstanding prospect bypassed a ...
Alabama football will honor John Mitchell and Wilbur Jackson on Saturday at A-Day for their roles in integrating the Crimson Tide in the 1970s.