The '23 squad included the first African American football player and first African American letterman at UW, halfback Hamilton Greene. And it was the first season that UW ended its season in the ...

D.C., where Hill became the first Black player on the football team. Then, he did it again at the Naval Academy. "I was the first African-American to play football for any military academy." ...

Learn about the significant contributions of African-Americans to basketball, including their rise to prominence in the NBA, ...

The Pawtucket YMCA team, and later, the Pawtucket Free Wanderers, were also home to the earliest known professional African-American soccer ... a “well-known football player” and said that ...

the award given to college football’s most outstanding player. Between Davis and Ohio State running back Bob Ferguson, one of them would be the first African American to receive the award.