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- Black_college_football_national_championship abstract "The black college football national championship is a mythical national championship won by the best historically black college (HBCU) football team(s) in the United States of America. There has been some criticism of this title on the grounds that the schools in the various polls compete in different levels of competition (e.g., National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II vs. the FCS level of Division I). Also, HBCUs have successfully challenged majority white schools for football championships for decades now, within the framework of both NCAA and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics competition; this includes Associated Press, United Press International, NCAA, and NAIA-sponsored titles for the 1962, 1973, 1978, 1990, 1992, and 1995 seasons, as well as runner-up finishes in 1963, 1983, 1991, 1994, and 2012.Initially, starting in 1920, an HBCU national champion was simply declared by the Pittsburgh Courier at the end of the season. Others more directly affiliated with the schools also made their own attempts to crown a champ, coordinating their efforts under the auspices of the Champion Aggregation of All Conferences. However, HBCUs eventually began to gravitate over to the NAIA because it offered numerous athletic competition options while also openly welcoming schools of varying demographic backgrounds as members. At present most HBCUs are members of the NCAA.Attempts have been made over the years to determine a non-mythical national champion with an actual football game contested by leading teams among HBCUs throughout the United States. The Orange Blossom Classic was often billed as such a game, but Florida A&M, as its annual host, was guaranteed a spot in this game and was not always of national championship-caliber each year that it was played between 1933 and 1978. The Pelican Bowl, a bowl game that attempted to match up the conference champions from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference, was one such example, but this venture failed to draw enough attendance and lasted only a few years in the 1970s. Similarly, the Heritage Bowl was played in the 1990s featuring teams from the MEAC and SWAC, but this bowl game has not been held since 1999 and was often snubbed by the conference champions in lieu of the NCAA's then-Division I-AA playoffs. The two conferences began negotiations in 2010 to create a successor called the \"Legacy Bowl\" with hopes for it to begin with the 2011 postseason, but it failed to materialize. However, in 2015 the first Celebration Bowl will be played pitting the champions of both conferences.It is worth noting that while black national champions have been crowned regularly in football for nearly a century now, the concept has never fully caught on with other sports. Men's basketball briefly had a similar movement. In 1941 Southern, coached by the famed football coach Ace Mumford, defeated North Carolina Central, 48–42, in the National Invitational Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament. This tournament was held because the National Invitational Tournament would not invite majority black schools at the time. NCCU was also named national champions that same year by the Associated Negro Press. In late 1947 National Championships, Inc. announced that they would soon begin hosting a postseason basketball tournament for HBCUs. Jet magazine later sponsored an HBCU basketball poll. In much more recent years, various websites have named champions for basketball and baseball. BlackCollegeBaseball.com,for example, has named several black national champions for baseball, including North Carolina A&T and Southern jointly in 2005 and Prairie View in 2006. Bethune-Cookman also defeated Alcorn State in a special postseason series in 2011.".
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