1892 Biddle football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–0
Head coach
  • Unknown
1892 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Centre    6 0 0
Biddle    1 0 0
Furman    1 0 0
Mercer    1 0 0
North Carolina A&M    1 0 0
Virginia Military    4 0 1
Wake Forest    4 0 1
Johns Hopkins    7 1 0
North Carolina    5 1 0
Central (KY)    4 1 0
Sewanee    5 1 1
Navy    5 2 0
Georgetown    4 2 1
Virginia    3 2 1
Vanderbilt    4 4 0
Alabama    2 2 0
Auburn    2 2 0
Georgia    1 1 0
Virginia A&M    1 1 0
Western Maryland    0 0 1
Richmond    2 3 0
Delaware    1 2 2
Kentucky A&M    2 4 1
Tennessee    2 5 0
Trinity (NC)    1 3 0
Hampden–Sydney    0 1 0
Livingstone    0 1 0
Maryville (TN)    0 1 0
South Carolina    0 1 0
Georgia Tech    0 3 0
Maryland    0 3 0

The 1892 Biddle football team represented Biddle University—now known as Johnson C. Smith University—in the 1892 college football season as an independent.[1]

On December 27 of 1892, Livingstone College and Biddle College, (Johnson C. Smith) University played in the snows of Salisbury, North Carolina, just two days after Christmas. A writer of a story in the 1930 year-book of Livingstone College provided a glimpse of that December experience when the team from Biddle Institute traveled to Livingstone's Old Delta Grove campus in Salisbury to play while writers recorded the results of a historic moment in sports history.

According to historian T.M. Martin, the men of Biddle spent two years studying and practicing the sport of football. In 1892, they challenged the men of Livingstone, whose team was formally organized in the fall of that year.

It is doubtful that when Biddle University and Livingstone College teed it up on Dec. 27, 1892, in what was described as little more than a cow pasture, no less, if the contestants in this momentous occasion had the slightest inkling of the legacy they were about to give birth to. Games of monumental historical significance, coaches of legendary proportions and players of extraordinary brilliance ultimately emerged from the mother lode that was to become known as the historically Black colleges and universities. The teams played two 45-minute halves on Livingstone's front lawn. W.J. Trent scored Livingstone's only touchdown on a fumble recovery. By then snow had covered the field's markings and Biddle argued that the fumble was recovered out of bounds. The official ruled in Biddle's favor, allowing them to keep the 5–0 lead that they had established early on and giving JCSU the historic 1st victory! And the rivalry continues. ...[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
December 27at LivingstoneSalisbury, NCW 5–0

References

  1. "Johnson C. Smith Game by Game Results". August 10, 2014. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014.
  2. "Commemorative Classic official website".


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