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OhioCatFan
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  Message Not Read  A little bit of Bobcat athletic history
   Posted: 7/18/2025 10:07:45 PM 
Darayus Sethna, a student in the Honors Tutorial College, put together this website. I thought many of you might enjoy taking a look at it:

https://www.bobcatarchives.com /

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Alan Swank
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  Message Not Read  RE: A little bit of Bobcat athletic history
   Posted: 7/19/2025 10:08:26 AM 
OhioCatFan wrote:
Darayus Sethna, a student in the Honors Tutorial College, put together this website. I thought many of you might enjoy taking a look at it:

https://www.bobcatarchives.com /


Thanks OCF. There is some really neat stuff on this site. This bit in regards to Arthur Carr who became an Ohio University football player where he was most likely the first Black player on the team in the early 1900s, really got my attention.

Carr graduated from Athens High School in 1902 with only 13 other students. According to this article from The Athens Messenger and Herald on June 12, 1902, the auditorium was packed with locals.

As the article describes, “the auditorium was filled to overflowing by the usual cultured Athenians who always show their appreciation of their public schools...”

O.T. Corson, an educational orator and the state of Ohio’s eventual Director of Education, was one of the keynote speakers at the commencement.

Last Edited: 7/19/2025 10:10:09 AM by Alan Swank
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  Message Not Read  RE: A little bit of Bobcat athletic history
   Posted: 7/19/2025 12:02:12 PM 
Alan, even more impressive is that Carr was apparently the first African American QB at a predominately white college. Several years ago I did a little research on the topic, and I could find no instances of another black QB at such an institution in the first decade of the 20th Century.

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