Black College Football, 1892-1992

by Michael Hurd

In 1892, the men of Biddle University met their counterparts form nearby Livingstone College for a "match game of ball" on a snow-covered field in Salisbury, North Carolina, 23 years after Princeton... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578640482
• ISBN13: 9781578640485
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Donning Company Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages

Customer Reviews

American History Through Sports

I understand that when Michael Hurd was putting together this book and calling historically black colleges to talk to them about their long-gone football programs, some college employees responded with, "We used to have a football program?" This is not a book of just names, dates and places -- it describes a unique time and the very unique culture that surrounded football at historically black colleges, and programs that, at the time, were storied and exhaulted. This peek into the past should prove interesting to anyone interested in the cultural aspects of American history, not just people who like American football (which I don't, by the way). For what it is -- a very targeted history book about a very particular period and practice -- I give it four stars. Obviously a labor of love by the author.