Legendary coaches, players up for 2017 Black College Football HOF class

The Black College Football Hall of Fame has announced the finalists for the 2017 class and it’s an impressive one. Twenty players and five coaches have been chosen as finalists from a list of more than 300 players.

Here are the players:

• Joe “747” Adams (QB, Tennessee State University, 1977-1980)
• Coy Bacon (DL, Jackson State University, 1964-1967)
• Emerson Boozer (RB, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 1962-1965)
• Harold Carmichael (WR, Southern University, 1967-1970)
• Raymond Chester (TE, Morgan State University, 1966-1969)
• Parnell “Paydirt” Dickinson (QB, Mississippi Valley State University, 1972-1975)
• Earl “Air” Harvey (QB, North Carolina Central University, 1985-1988)
• James Hunter (DB, Grambling State University, 1972-1975)
• Harold Jackson (WR, Jackson State University, 1965-1968)
• Gary “Big Hands” Johnson (DL, Grambling State University, 1971-1974)
• Henry Lawrence (OL, Florida A&M University, 1970-1973)
• Greg Lloyd (LB Fort Valley State University, 1983-1986)
• Leo “Lincoln Locomotive” Lewis (RB, Lincoln University, 1951-1954)
• Frank Lewis (WR, Grambling State University, 1967-1970)
• Tyrone McGriff (OL, Florida A&M University, 1976-1979)
• Timothy Newsome (RB/KR, Winston Salem State University, 1976-1979)
• Robert Porcher (DL, Tennessee State and South Carolina State University, 1988-1991)
• Isiah Robertson (DB/LB, Southern University, 1967-1970)
• John Taylor, (WR, Delaware State University, 1982-1985)
• Everson Walls (DB, Grambling State University, 1977-1980)