Prairie View Interscholastic League
Coaches Association
"Remembering the Past With Pride"
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WELCOME
This site celebrates the Prairie View Interscholastic League which existed from 1920 to 1970. The PVIL was the governing body for academic, athletic, and music competitions for black high schools in Texas during the state's segregationist era. In its 50-year existence, the PVIL produced numerous outstanding coaches, athletes, students, and citizens. On these pages, you will find records, images, profiles of schools, coaches, players, and more. Despite the social mood of the era, during the PVIL's peak its 500 member schools -- with all-black enrollments -- had lively, exciting, and proud competitions which were as entertaining, passionate, and fierce as any in the land.
2015 PVILCA HOF/Hall of Honor banquet overwhelming success
Banquet Highlights
The PVILCA's 2015 Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor banquet saw yet another increase in attendance as over 1,000 combined honorees and guests witnessed the induction and recognition ceremonies at the Westin Galleria in Houston on July 18. Leading the class of inductees were Beaumont Hebert's Jerry Levias, the first black scholarship football player in the Southwest Conference, and Warren Wells, an all-time great wide receiver for Texas Southern and the Oakland Raiders.
Clemon C. Daniels Jr., a
former professional football standout in the American Football League (AFL) who also played in the NFL, earned All-Conference honors during his sophomore and junior years at Prairie View A&M. He served as captain of the NAIA National Football Championship team in his senior year.
L.C. Anderson High School was the pride of East Austin,
educating African American students from 1907 to 1971, when it
closed because of integration. Two years later, a new school, in
northwest Austin, opened and carried the L.C. Anderson name.
However, it did not recognize any of the history or traditions of the
"original" Anderson High School Yellow Jackets.
L.C. Anderson Yellow Jackets
Prairie View Interscholastic League Coaches Association
"Remembering the Past With Pride"
Contact: pvilca1940@yahoo.com
The PVILCA is a nonprofit organization -- 501(c)(3)
For 50 years, beginning in 1920, the Prairie View Interscholastic League governed academic, athletic, and band competitions for black high school students in Texas. Working with limited resources, the PVIL produced numerous outstanding students who became successful citizens, athletes, entertainers, and more, from U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan (Houston Wheatley) to choreographer Debbie Allen (Houston Yates) to Pearl Harbor hero Doris Miller (Waco Moore) and six members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Now, Michael Hurd, historian and author ("Black College Football, 1892-1992") and also a PVIL alumnus (E.E. Worthing, 1967), is documenting the PVIL's rich history and you can help. Contact him at michael@pvilca.org with your memories of attending a PVIL school and send images (for careful scanning and return) to be used in the book. Or, print and complete this short questionnaire and submit to the PVILCA.
Help tell the world what proud, successful people came out of PVIL schools and celebrate an enduring statewide and global
legacy.
Corpus Christi
Baseball State Championship
In 1965, Solomon Coles High School in Corpus Christi played for and won their only baseball state championship (3-A) when they took two
straight games in a best-of-three series against Valley View of Gilmer. The win came just five years after the Green Hornets won the second PVIL state football championship in the school's history. However, the baseball title was a first for the city.
