MEMPHIS, Tennessee -- The new $13.5 million four-story residence hall at LeMoyne-Owen College that formally opened Friday, Oct. 18, is the latest symbol of growth on the campus of the city’s only historically black college since 2006.The next indication of that growth could be a football team.
“I have just received the football feasibility study that we are taking a look at,” said LeMoyne-Owen College president Johnnie Watson. “At some point, the board will say yea or nay to that. That’s probably the next thing.”
The idea of a Magicians football team surfaced in 2010 with a feasibility study beginning as well as some efforts to build support for such a team among alumni.
The school has a number of men’s and women’s sports programs but the school is best known for its men’s and women’s basketball teams. And the basketball teams have been an important part of the school’s legacy since Watson was a student there in the late 1950s.
Watson graduated from the college in 1960 and is the first alumni to serve as president of the college in the Soulsville section of South Memphis.
“Probably 50 years ago. That was before I even attended college,” Watson said of the old football program. “Some people want it to return. But certainly we are going to have to look at the economics.”
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