If It's Fall, It's Football Time: NC Football-- Part 1

From the Encyclopedia of North Carolina "Football."

Of course, in North Carolina, high school football is a big thing, but there is also college and professional football in the sport.

The first colleges to field teams were Trinity College (later Duke University), UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest with the first intercollegiate football games played in 1888. Most of the state's football pioneers learned the sport at northern campuses.

In the 1890s, football started at North Carolina A&M (now North Carolina State), Davidson College and others began playing.

On December 27, 1892, Biddle Institute (now Johnson C. Smith University) and Livingstone College played in the first intercollegiate game between black colleges.

Hut, Hut, Hut. --Cooter