Sentences with phrase «first black football»

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

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Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.

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.

FORERUNNER Sirs: In your Pro Football Issue (Sept. 16) you mentioned that many scouts believe that Eldridge Dickey «might become the first black quarterback to play as a regular in professional footballFootball Issue (Sept. 16) you mentioned that many scouts believe that Eldridge Dickey «might become the first black quarterback to play as a regular in professional footballfootball.»

The school once known for producing former Nebraska All - America center Dave Rimington and modern pro football's first black starting quarterback, Marlin Briscoe, now sends first - generation Americans to college on soccer scholarships.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

The Imps won promotion from the Conference and will be wearing a black kit on the road in their first season back in the Football League.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The first day Tarik Black returned to playing football, he admitted to some hesitation.

It's an underdog story that's a bit formulaic but very well set in its moment, and it tells of a very human experience: though it's about racism - Davis being the first black player to win the Heisman trophy - it's not too heavy - handed, and it's just as much about football, and built on a deep love and understanding of the game.

This casting choice seems another sort of updating, as there were no black faces in the first film's unnamed midwestern town, and it's a choice amplified by the appearance as well of Andy's son Woody (Ser «Darius Blain) as the football team captain, his barely speaking girlfriend Etta (Enisha Brewster), and their vibrant Latina classmate Rusty (Ziah Colon).

DVD Releases for January 20, 2009 The Express Rated PG - 13 for thematic content, violence and language involving racism, and for brief sensuality Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the true story about Ernie Davis, the first black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy, The Express follows Ernie's life from his childhood to its sad conclusion.

This weekend might be all about Black Panther, Marvel's much - anticipated, 18th entry in its ten - years - and - counting cinematic universe, but that's no reason to ignore the other visually expansive, comedic delight arriving in in multiplexes: Oscar - winner Nick Park's (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit) latest foray into stop - motion wizardry (his first as sole director), Early Man, an unexpected, if no less welcome, ode to the joys, excitement, and wonders of the «beautiful game» («soccer» to less enlightened Americans, European football everywhere else) set against the backdrop of a future - hanging - in - the - balance, winner - take - all Stone Age vs. Bronze Age football match that's almost as thrilling and exhilarating as watching Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona or Manchester United vs. Manchester City play in front of paying fans (i.e., in the real world with real - world stakes).

When it first came out in hardcover it had a black cover with «chalk» drawings of his name on the upper half, the x's and o's used to diagram football plays in the middle, and the subtitle, «Evolution of a Game» at the bottom.