African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Allison Davis, "College Athlete" (1928)

College Athlete

You spend your winters
Juggling basket-balls
And women.
You won’t work,
You won't study,
You won’t marry;

But you have four “letters”,
And a fraternity pin.

College education
Of a hundred like you every year
Will bring the race along rapidly.


Published in The Crisis, March 1928