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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 ...
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 ...
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 following is a list of current National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) football stadiums in the United States. Conference affiliations reflect those for the ongoing 2024 season .
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 played college football at the University of Kentucky.As a freshman, Homer was named to the Knoxville News-Sentinel Freshman All-SEC team after playing in all eleven games (starting six) and gaining 502 yards rushing (5.7 per carry).
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.