The Golf Underground Railroad

pettyfog · Aug 16, 2009

Wilberforce, Canton {Ohio} share golf history

Powell came to Wilberforce from Minerva High School, east of Canton, in 1937 and with his older brother, Berry, and two others, formed the school’s first golf team, which made history when it played — and beat — Ohio Northern in two matches that year.

It was the first time ever that white and black college golf teams faced each other. One match was in Lima, the other in Dayton at the now defunct Miami View course, where Wilberforce practiced.

Powell eventually left college for World War II, but when he returned to Ohio, he was denied access to certain courses and when he applied for a GI Loan — which he was due — he was denied.

Unbowed, he borrowed money from two black doctors and his brother and bought a run-down 78-acre dairy farm in East Canton.
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... Tiger Woods — recognizing that Powell helped pave the way for him — awards a William and Marcella Powell Scholarship every year.
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wiki Wilberforce OH
wiki Wilberforce U

{greatly underdocumented for wiki. Kinda resent that... I owe my maternal bloodline / heritage to Wilberforce.}

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