The Return of Morehouse Football
The New York Times
Morehouse was one of the first colleges that grants football scholarships to shut down sports because of the pandemic.
ATLANTA — Ambition meets precision on the campus of Morehouse College.
People trek knowingly to and from their destinations with multicolored masks draping their faces. A security guard halts cars as they enter the campus, nestled in the heart of Atlanta, waving some through after a quick conversation and carefully quizzing others.
In a conference room at Forbes Arena, where the basketball team plays, Morehouse’s football coach, Rich Freeman, recounted how much had changed over the past 15 months, since his athletic department became the first among colleges that offer football scholarships to cancel fall sports in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
