The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932

[Hampton, Virginia]: The Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, 1932.

Price: $4,000.00

Softcover. Magazine. Quarto. 36pp. Illustrated from photographs. Printed wrappers. With Gideon E. Smith’s owner name in pencil on front cover. Staples are a little rusty, light soiling, 3" closed tear along tail of spine, very good overall. Laid-in is a Typed Manuscript by Smith (“Eligibility of Ivory Richmond”) composed on three half sheets, relating to membership in the C.I.A.A.), and with three quarto sheets containing football scheduling notes written out in pencil, presumably in Smith’s hand, rectos only.

Gideon Smith (1889-1968) was one of the first African-Americans to play professional football (while still attending Michigan Agricultural College), and he was the last African-American to exclusively play professional football prior to the formation of the National Football League. Inducted into the Hampton Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009, Smith was head football coach at the Hampton Institute in Virginia from 1921-1940, compiling a 97-46-12 record, including six one-loss seasons and two undefeated seasons in 1926 and 1931. The C.I.A.A., founded in 1912 on the campus of Hampton Institute, is the oldest African-American athletic conference in the United States, consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities on the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. A scarce issue of The C.I.A.A. Bulletin, with a nice association.


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Item #534878 The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932. Gideon Edward SMITH, G E. Smith.
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932
The Bulletin of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (The C.I.A.A. Bulletin), 1932