Knights-Bulls Matchup Marks More than Just a Non-Conference Game

This Saturday, September 19, the Knights play the Buffalo Bulls at home at Bright House Networks Stadium under the lights. This game between the two teams not only marks their fifth matchup ever, but the opportunity to honor the 1958 Buffalo Bulls football squad, a team which turned down an Orlando bowl bid because the team's two African-American players would not have been allowed to participate. Members of the historic 1958 team will be in attendance at the game and will be honored at halftime. The bowl bound team of 1958 was a hot topic during last year's college football season, when the 2008 Mid-American Conference champion Buffalo Bulls received their first bowl bid since the storied 1958 season, on the 50th anniversary of the event. That faithful year—when the two point conversion was first introduced to NCAA football, the Bulls team—which featured two African American players, Willie Evans and the late Mike Wilson, were invited to play in the Tangerine B...