Date of birth January 9, 1916 Name Jerome Holland Place of birth Auburn, New York Role American football player | Education Cornell University College Cornell University Positions End | |
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Date of death January 13, 1985(1985-01-13) (aged 69) Died January 13, 1985, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Place of death New York, New York | ||
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.