HBCU sports highlights from the week of October 1, 2016
2016 Football Scoreboards Week Five
Thursday, September 29, 2016 Saturday, October 1, 2016
State Fair Classic: Grambling/Prairie View Shootout 2?
BOXTOROW National Game of the Week 2/2 Grambling (2-1, 2-0) vs. 4/5 Prairie View A&M (3-1, 3-0) Last year’s annual State Fair Classic between Grambling and Prairie View A&M ultimately decided the SWAC’s Western Division. GSU won the shootout 70-54. This year’s game played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas may not ultimately decide the
HBCU Legend: Remembering Ed Temple 1927-2016
BOXTOROW would like to send our condolences to the family and Tennessee State family of Ed Temple who passed away last Thursday at the age of 89. We had the very distinct honor of having a 20-minute interview with Coach Temple back in 2012, shortly after he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
News & Notes from Week 4: Savannah State pulls the shocker over B-CU
In talking with Savannah State star defensive end Marquis Smith – the NC Mutual BOXTOROW National Player of the Week – the Tigers always believed. So while the HBCU football world was shocked by SSU’s 16-10 overtime victory over MEAC perennial power Bethune-Cookman on Saturday, the Tigers weren’t. “It was no doubt in our mind
BOXTOROW Coaches Poll: A&T remains on top, B-CU drops out
[insert_php] /* hide author info except on post */ if (is_single()) { echo “boxtorow.com”; } [/insert_php] North Carolina A&T remains atop the BOXTOROW Coaches and Media Polls. The defending BOXTOROW champions received 19-of-20 first-place votes in the coaches poll to lead No. 2 Grambling by 29 points. The Tigers received the other first-place vote. As
FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW: Saturday, September 24, 2016
Actress Lorraine Toussaint, Redskins great and UAPB head football coach Monte Coleman, singer Delious Kennedy
BOXTOROW Blitz: September 24, 2016
HBCU sports highlights from the week of September 24, 2016
Alcorn, Grambling; not exactly SWAC championship game rematch
[insert_php] /* hide author info except on post */ if (is_single()) { echo “BOXTOROW National Game of the Week 5/4 Alcorn State (1-1, 1-1) vs. 2/2 Grambling (1-1, 1-0)”; } [/insert_php] Rematch of last year’s SWAC championship game. When Alcorn State and Grambling meet on Saturday in Grambling, LA, the matchup will be a far
2016 Football Scoreboards Week Four
Thursday, September 22, 2016 Saturday, September 24, 2016