SALISBURY, North Carolina —That pesky monkey is finally off the backs of the Blue Bears.That’s right, Livingstone’s football team achieved its first winning season since 1998 with a convincing 35-12 victory over Johnson C. Smith at Alumni Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
And the game wasn’t even as close as the score indicates. In very muddy conditions after Salisbury’s week of rain, the Golden Bulls managed just 67 total yards and four first downs. Livingstone may have been looking at a shutout had it not been for two electrifying kick returns by the Bulls’ Fred Scott.
To celebrate the first football game between two historically black colleges in 1892, the Commemorative Classic began in 2009 and J.C. Smith had won the previous six games. The Blue Bears’ victory yesterday keeps the trophy in Salisbury for the first time.
Livingstone ends its season at 5-3 overall and 4-3 in the CIAA. J.C. Smith fell to 4-6 and 3-4. The Blue Bears also had two wins against NCAA-deemed “non-counting” schools.
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