American football has its historical roots in the latter part of the 19th century as a merge of rugby and soccer played at American colleges. The very first official game occurred in 1869 between ...

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Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...