1920 Howard Bison football team

1920 Howard Bison football
ConferenceColored Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record7โ€“0 (5โ€“0 CIAA)
Head coach
Seasons
← 1919
1921 →
1920 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Howard 5 0 0 7 0 0
Virginia Union 1 1 0 6 2 0
Shaw 2 2 0 2 2 1
Hampton 2 3 0 4 3 1
Lincoln (PA) 1 2 0 3 2 0
Virginia Normal 0 3 0 3 4 0

The 1920 Howard Bison football team was an American football team that represented Howard University during the 1920 college football season. In their first year under head coach Edward Morrison, the Bison compiled a 7โ€“0 record, did not allow opponents to score a point, and outscored all opponents by a total of 132 to 0.[1] For the first time following the 1920 season, the Pittsburgh Courier selected a black college national champion with Howard and Talladega sharing the honor.[2]

  1. ^ "Howard Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  2. ^ Raymond Schmidt (2007). Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919-1930. Syracuse University Press. p. 146. ISBN 0815608861.