Field-goal attempt during a Saints-Raiders game, September 11, 2016. (Photo: ... Because chances are no one on that field had ever seen a black football player kick a punt.

The gap this year is 16.3, up from 15.6% the previous year, with White student football payers posting a graduation rate of 89.7%, while the rate for their Black counterparts was 73.4%.

Such prominence was both the goal and the dream of J.R.E. Lee Jr., ... Black college football was being played “behind God’s back,” as Tennessee State coach John Merritt once put it. ...

Army linebacker Kalib Fortner scored on a fourth-quarter strip sack and then stuffed quarterback Tai Lavatai six inches from the goal line with 3 seconds left to help the Black Knights beat Navy ...

— Army Football (@ArmyWP_Football) December 12, 2024 “Beating Navy, that's easily the No. 1 goal at the start of every season,” he said. “No matter what happens throughout the whole season ...

UGA's 1st Black football player looks back. ... Hurley's journey is one he says he shares with all the people who helped carry him across the goal line. "It wasn't about what I did.

“Because remember, first and foremost, I wanted to be a footballer, and whatever it took I did to achieve that goal. “From a really early age, I was always kicking a football.

Balotelli’s very being as a black Italian in the number 9 shirt of the Azzuri is an exclamation point in a society where it’s quite conceivable that Barack Obama, were he a football player ...

These coaches have common goals in their love of football -- keeping the history alive and recognizing the talent that comes from HBCU’s. The birthplace of Black football traced back to local ...

The Army West Point Black Knights have done things that no other Army football team has ever done this season. Opportunities lie ahead for this edition of the Black Knights to do things no Army ...