Morgan State Bears football
| Morgan State Bears | |||
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| First season | 1898 | ||
| Head coach |
Fred Farrier 1st year, 2–4 (.333) |
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| Stadium | Hughes Stadium | ||
| Seating capacity | 10,001 | ||
| Field surface | Grass | ||
| Conference | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference | ||
| All-time record | 412–385–38 (.516) | ||
| Bowl record | 2–3 (.400) | ||
| Conference titles | 21 | ||
| Colors | Blue and Orange |
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| Mascot | Bears | ||
| Website | morganstatebears.com | ||
| Name | Years | Won | Lost | Tied | |
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| Dr. John Camper | 1920–1923 | 3 | 14 | 1 | |
| Jim F. Law | 1924–1925 | 6 | 3 | 2 | |
| Dr. Charles R. Drew | 1926–1927 | 8 | 2 | 2 | |
| Bill Taylor | 1928 | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Eddie Hurt | 1929–1959 | 173 | 54 | 18 | |
| Earl Banks | 1960–1973 | 95 | 30 | 2 | |
| Nat Taylor | 1974–1975 | 9 | 10 | 1 | |
| Henry Lattimore | 1976–1977 | 10 | 10 | 1 | |
| Clarence Thomas | 1978–1980 | 17 | 15 | 1 | |
| Thomas Morris | 1981 | 4 | 5 | 0 | |
| Nat Taylor | 1982 | 4 | 7 | 0 | |
| James Phillips | 1983–1984 | 2 | 18 | 0 | |
| Jesse Thomas | 1985–1987 | 2 | 27 | 0 | |
| Edmund Wyche | 1988–1990 | 6 | 26 | 1 | |
| Ricky Diggs | 1991–1995 | 10 | 45 | 0 | |
| Stump Mitchell | 1996–1998 | 8 | 24 | 1 | |
| Stanley Mitchell | 1991–2001 | 5 | 27 | 0 | |
| Donald Hill-Eley | 2002–2013 | 59 | 76 | 0 | |
| Lee Hull | 2014–2016 | 11 | 12 | 0 | |
| Fred Farrier (Interim) | 2016–present | 0 | 0 |
The Morgan State Bears football team competes in American football on behalf of Morgan State University. The Bears compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, currently as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). The Bears play their home games at Hughes Stadium, a 10,000 seat facility in Baltimore, Maryland.
Morgan State began playing football in 1898, 31 years after the school was founded. The team's all-time record is 405 wins, 379 losses and 38 ties. 173 of those wins came between 1929 and 1959 when Edward P. Hurt was the head coach and the Bears won 14 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) championships. Earl Banks won four CIAA championships during the 1960s and an additional championship in 1971 after Morgan entered the MEAC. The Bears have won three MEAC Championships (1976, 1979 and 2014).
Morgan State has made one appearance in the FCS playoffs.
The most recent head coach of the Morgan Bears football team was Fred Farrier.
Coach Eddie P. Hurt took over the Morgan Bears football team in 1929, the next year his teams won the first of the 14 CIAA championships they would win with him at the helm. More importantly, Hurt, and his assistant coach Talmadge L. Hill, built a program that allowed black athletes to show case their talents where such a venue had been non-existent before. From 1931 to 1938, Hurt coached the Bears to a 54-game win streak without a single loss. During his tenure, Morgan's football teams completed 11 seasons undefeated and, in the 1943 season, opponents failed to score a single point against the Bears. Hurt is a member of the HBCU coaches Hall of Fame and in 1952 Morgan named its new $1 million gymnasium facility after him.
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