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Friday, November 14, 2008
All-time Black College football team
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you had a choice, who would be the quarterback on your all-time Black College football team? What about the coach?
ESPN has compiled an all-time Black College football team with some of the greatest names in HBCU history. Not surprisingly, the quarterback was Doug Williams, the former Grambling star who finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting as a senior and later was a Super Bowl MVP for the Washington Redskins.
Here are some other offensive members - RB Walter Payton (Jackson State), WR Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley), T Art Shell (Maryland State) and G Larry Little (Bethune-Cookman).
What about a defensive line of Willie Davis and Buck Buchanan from Grambling, Too Tall Jones from Tennessee State and Deacon Jones from South Carolina State? The coach? No question it was Eddie Robinson, who spent an astounding 56 years at Grambling.
Check out the entire team by clicking here and let me know what you think. Is there anyone that was omitted who should be on the team? State your case.
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