Jerome H. Holland

Jerome "Brud" Holland

Date of birth	January 9, 1916
Place of birth	Auburn, New York
Date of death	January 13, 1985(1985-01-13) (aged 69)
Place of death	New York, New York
Career information
Position(s)	End
US college	Cornell University
College Football Hall of Fame

Jerome Heartwell "Brud" Holland (January 9, 1916 – January 13, 1985) was an American university president and diplomat. He was the first African American to play football at Cornell University (1939), the first to sit on the board of the New York Stock Exchange (1972), and the first appointed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's governing body, "The Corporation". After graduating Cornell and teaching at Lincoln University, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his PhD in 1950. In 1953, he became president of Delaware State College, serving six years before transitioning to Hampton Institute, where he was president from 1960 to 1970. In that year, he became ambassador to Sweden under President Richard Nixon.

He became a member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965. In 1972, the NCAA awarded Holland its Theodore Roosevelt Award.

Sources

• Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom