On Dec. 27, 1892, Livingstone College and Biddle College (later, Johnson C. Smith University) played the first Black intercollegiate football game in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Biddle won the game 5-0 after the teams played two 45-minute halves on Livingstone's front lawn.

Livingstone College is a private, historically Black, four-year college in Salisbury, North Carolina; affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Biddle College began in 1867 in Charlotte, North Carolina, when Mrs. Mary D. Biddle donated $1,400 to the school. It was later renamed Johnson C. Smith University and is now a private, co-ed, four-year research university.

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