1892 Biddle vs. Livingstone football game

[1] Players at the time wore no helmets, no pads, and attempted no passes, with an emphasis placed on the kicking game (touchdowns were then worth four points and field goals five).

[3] Charles Shute of Biddle was friends with William J. Trent of Livingstone College and the students of each agreed to play each other in the 1892 season.

[3][6] Biddle students put together old clothes to make their uniforms and wore caps and hoods to protect their heads.

[3] The Livingstone students put together all the money they could acquire and were able to purchase one ball and uniform from Spaulding Sporting Goods.

[5] The single uniform was given to the women of the Livingstone industrial department, and they used it as the design for the team's jerseys, sewing them out of duckling cloth.

[8] A historical account listed the roster of the Livingstone team, which featured: J. W. Walker, captain, William J. Trent, manager, R. J. Rencher, Henry Rives, C. N. Garland, J. R. Dillard, J.

[9] James L. Conyers Jr. wrote that the Livingstone and Biddle players had "no idea that they were pioneering the sport for Black colleges, yet that is exactly what they did on December 27, [1892].

[3][8] A newspaper report from after the game said that the Biddle players planned to "return at their earliest convenience", although they did not play Livingstone again until 1912.