Dennie W. Hoggard Sr. (June 15, 1897 - January 13, 1968) was a pastor and state legislator in Pennsylvania.
[https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/HJ/1943/0/19430316.pdf] He was the pastor of Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
Hoggard's son Dennie W. Hoggard Jr. played football for
Penn State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State became ...
(
1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 1946 Penn State Nittany Lions football team was an American football team that represented Pennsylvania State University as an independent during the 1946 college football season. In their 17th year under head coach Bob Higgins, the Nittany ...
) and was a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...
fraternity. He played with
Wallace Triplett
Wallace Triplett (April 18, 1926 – November 8, 2018) was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League team. For that reason, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fam ...
They integrated the team and were the first African Americans to play in the
Cotton Bowl.
See also
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List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959)
The following is a list of African-American holders of public office from 1900 to 1959. This period saw setbacks for African Americans following the Reconstruction era after "Redeemer" Democrats retook control of the South and restored white supre ...
References
1897 births
1968 deaths
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