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(SPORTS--FOOTBALL.) Group of photographs of pioneer Matthew Bullock with the Dartmouth College football team. 4 photographs (2 cyanotypes and 2 silver prints), all about 5 x 7 inches or slightly smaller; one mounted to fragment of album leaf with unrelated campus view on verso, various contemporary and modern pencil captions; all with Dartmouth College Archives stamps, and two with Dartmouth College Library "Discarded" stamps. Various places, 1901-1903
Matthew Washington Bullock (1881-1972) was raised in Everett, Massachusetts by formerly enslaved parents. He enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1900 and became their first Black football player in his sophomore year. During his three seasons as a star defensive end, the team had a 24-4 record.
After Dartmouth, he attended Harvard Law, was the football coach at what became UMass Amherst (the first Black college coach outside of the HBCUs), and went on to serve as Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and a member of the state parole board.
Bullock is visible in all four of these original Dartmouth team photographs. In one of them, a teammate holds a ball emblazoned with the final score of a 27 November 1903 game: "Dartmouth 62, Brown 0." Ouch.
