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Description: A podcast featuring members of the 1971 National Champion Howard soccer team—endeavoring to restore glory for their NCAA-rescinded title.
Back Team Voices About Mark W. Wright Gallery Episodes Restoring The Glory of The 1971 National Champion Howard Bison Washington, D.C.-based Howard University had just three weeks to celebrate its 1971 national soccer championship before all hell broke loose. The school would soon learn that it had made history — as the first national champion in the modern era to have its title revoked by the NCAA. The Bison Project , a three-episode podcast, tells the story of Howard’s lost, and in some circles, forgotten
Coach Lincoln Phillips and the 1971 Howard University soccer team always felt targeted. Targeted by opposing players. Singled out by referees. Taunted by racist fans threatened by their mere existence. Twenty-one days after the team’s historic victory over two-time defending champion Saint Louis University on Dec. 30, 1971, the NCAA received an anonymous note suggesting that Howard had cheated its way to the title by knowingly using ineligible players. As rumors swirled around them, Howard’s players were ha
More than 50 years have come and gone (and eight members from that team have passed away), yet questions remain. * Was Howard targeted by the NCAA? * Did the NCAA find a loophole to make an example of the Bison? * Was Howard’s victory a threat to the system? Ask any of the men who suited up for Coach Phillips on that fateful day in Miami, and they’ll tell you that they fought and clawed and won the national championship fair and square.
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