Sentences with phrase «black footballers»

Jerome Holland was the first black football player at Cornell University.

His father was Jerome «Brud» Holland, an Auburn native who was the first black football player at Cornell University and U.S. ambassador to Sweden under President Richard Nixon.

Goldsmith, who is white, says, «People think of black football as unsound and razzle - dazzle.

West Brom & England star & one of Britain's first prominent black footballers.

Regarded as a pioneer for black footballers during the 1970s, he became a Christian following the death of his colleague Laurie Cunningham in a car crash in 1989.

Trice is the only black player on the Iowa State football team, the first black varsity athlete at Iowa State College (as Iowa State University was then known) one of only a few black football players in the country at the time playing against white opponents.

In 1992 Wellman became Wake Forest's athletic director, and when Bill Dooley retired as the Deacons» football coach that fall, Wellman turned to Caldwell, making him the ACC's first black football coach.

It's just the beginning, of course, but the university's inability to resolve its differences with black football players plus the shellacking it took from Houston last week make the future look hopeless

«The Plantation» is how some Colorado players refer to the school's athletics facility, because that's where largely black football and basketball teams make the money that supports largely white non-revenue teams.

It's 2017 and we're still putting black footballers in to boxes.

Designed by architect Wells Coates, and looking rather like a shiny black football, these now sell for nearly # 20 000.

The club's legacy players, Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson overcame racist attitudes to inspire a generation of black footballers and today this approach is enhanced to include the perspective of religious and faith - based tensions.

Black churches remind me of the endzone dance after a black football player scores a touchdown.

From 1945 through 1969, A&M generally ruled the black football world under legendary coach Jake Gaither.

The forward has accused both the club and the player of disliking non-English, black footballers.

The other characteristic too often falsely attributed to black footballers.

Shine like a star on the field in your black football club T - shirt and red shorts.

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for starring in The Blind Side, a 2009 film ostensibly about a black football player overcoming social inequity and bigotry.

Maran, a writer and mother of two Berkeley High graduates, tracks three students in particular: a biracial girl who needs to work to support her single - parent family, an affluent white boy, and a black football player who aspires to an athletic scholarship.

The cozy parlor where the philanthropist's patronage, alluded to with the repeated image of the black footballer rendered in the ubiquitous print fabrics, makes him feel a sense of comfort with his place in the world.