Pennant for Wilberforce University football: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A university pennant forest green in color with a yellow strip of felt at its base. There is yellow stylized text down the center of the pennant which reads [Wilberforce]; to the left of the text is the stylized image of two football players running over sparse clumps of grass. Attached to the base of the pennant of are two pairs of green felt ties. There is a strong vertical crease on the pennant between the "I" and the "L" in the line of text.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1940s - 1950s
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856
• Type: pennants
• Medium: felt with thread and printing ink
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 31 in. (27.9 × 78.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Football
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2014.213.3.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Gates Moresi family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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