Rochester to host Frederick Douglass HBCU Football Classic for first time: What we know

There are more historically Black colleges and university football games televised than ever before.

The City of Rochester has tentative plans to announce that for the first time there is a chance to see a game between HBCU teams here in person on Sept. 21.

Posts on Facebook have details about the Frederick Douglass HBCU Football Classic between Albany State University and Central State University, a game that is part of the city's "Weekend of Hope."

The game in September is inside the Rochester Community Sports Complex on Oak Street and kicks off at 1 p.m. Outside the stadium, there will be a three-hour pre-game tailgate party that begins at 9 a.m.

Battle of school bands are common at HBCU football games, and there is one anticipated between the groups from Georgia-based Albany State and Ohio-based Central State, which is about half an hour east of Dayton.

Tickets are $28 and are on sale at eventbrite.com.

James Johnson, who grew up in the city of Rochester and is a graduate of Edison Tech in the Rochester City School District, has worked as a full-time journalist covering high school sports for the Democrat and Chronicle since 1996. Follow him @jjDandC on X (Twitter). You can contact him at JAMESJ@gannett.com

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