Category: College

Bears junior linebacker Allen Stephens was named as one of the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) Honorable Mention Players of Week after helping Morgan State hold off the Robert Morris Colonials, 13-12, on Sept. 17 at Hughes Stadium in Baltimore. The South Boston, Va. native harassed the Colonials in MSU’s first win of the 2011 season, […]

The Morgan State (MSU) Bears and the Robert Morris Colonials entered a match-up on Sept. 17 both in search of their first win of the 2011 season. The Colonials lost their first two games at home to Dayton and Liberty, while Morgan State was beaten at Towson and Bowling Green State universities. However, it was […]

The Bulldogs improved to a 3-0 overall, 2-0 division after blowing out Livingstone College, 41-14, during the Bowie State (BSU) 2011 Homecoming in Bowie, Md. on Sept, 17. BSU racked up 413 total yards, while scoring six touchdowns against their Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) opponent, a performance that thrilled Bowie State alum and students […]

One week after leading the Howard Bison to a 30-27 victory over archrival Morehouse, freshman signal caller Greg McGee was brought back down to earth a bit in a 23-9 defeat to the Norfolk State Spartans in the Bison’s home opener on Sept. 17 at Greene Stadium. McGhee threw for 248 yards and three scores […]

There was a game last year in the midst of a 1-10 disastrous campaign that former Howard Bison head football coach Carey Bailey did the unthinkable: he rotated all three quarterbacks on his roster in a single game. The move spelled panic, it spelled frustration and it spelled desperation for a team that has struggled […]

The Bowie State University (BSU) Bulldogs cruised to their second straight win, manhandling the Benedict College Tigers, 31-14, in a Central Interscholastic Athletic Association (CIAA) football matchup Sept. 10 in Bowie, Md. The Bulldogs put on an offensive clinic, racking up 473 yards against the Tigers. Bowie quarterback senior Andre Johnson completed 12 of 20 […]

As a high school football player in Pittsburgh, Greg McGhee wasn’t accustomed to big time crowds. On his first visit to Howard University last spring, McGhee admitted he was somewhat stunned by the sheer size of Washington, D.C.’s inner city campus. But even that astonishment couldn’t compare to the massive audience on hand for his […]

The Morgan State University Bears took another lopsided loss, falling 58-13 to the Bowling Green State University Falcons Sept. 10 in Bowling Green, Ohio. It was the second straight week the Bears were blasted on the road following a 42-3 loss to the Towson Tigers in their Sept. 3 season opener. Morgan State surrendered 572 […]

It’s been nearly 14 years since the Howard University Bison have squared off against their longtime rival, the Morehouse College Maroon Tigers, in a football game of any importance. Their last meeting in 1997 ended in 52-0 shellacking of Morehouse by Howard, and was the final faceoff before a decade-long hiatus put the near 90-year […]

After its resounding 63-14 defeat of Prairie View A&M on national television in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference/Southwestern Athletic Conference Challenge on Sept. 4, Bethune-Cookman College was voted No. 1 in the Boxtorow Historically Black College/University football media and coaches’ power ranking polls.  The BCC Wildcats pick up where they left off a year ago when […]

Morgan State suffered a major blowout loss to cross-town foe Towson University, falling in their football season opener to the Tigers, 42-3, on Sept. 3 at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson, Md. The Bears struggled to produce anything on both the offense and defense. They scored only a field goal offensively and their defensive unit […]

Howard University’s football season opening game against Eastern Michigan was delayed from its original Saturday evening time to a Sunday noon kickoff due to severe weather conditions in Ypsilanti, Mich. But the extra 17 hours of preparation didn’t help the Howard Bison much. They were clobbered by the Eastern Michigan Eagles, 41-9, Sept. 4. at […]