(Photo By Flickr User Hector Alejandro)

The Inaugural St. Louis Heritage Football Classic, NCAA College Football event is soon to become one of the premier HBCU sporting events in the country!

This initiative is designed to promote higher education to urban youth through exposure to college and career readiness programming.

Proceeds from this event will benefit the participating universities, both the United Negro College Fund and Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and local St. Louis charitable organizations.

Students and fans can catch the single game match-up and access educational and entertainment events/activities in one day.

The match-up teams for this inaugural series will be the Kentucky State University Thorobreds (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference-SIAC) vs Lincoln University-Missouri Blue Tigers (Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association-MIAA)

We are eager to welcome an estimated 20,000 students and fans to the St. Louis area for this event.

The date and time for this event will be Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 2:30 PM

The location of the game will be held at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, MO.