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Bethune-Cookman University, a.k.a. BCC (it was formerly called Bethune-Cookman College) or BCU, is a historically black college located in Daytona Beach, FL; the school was renamed Bethune-Cookman University in 2007. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune founded the school in 1904 as the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls. It merged with the Cookman Institute in Jacksonville, FL in 1923 and became a co-ed high school. The next year, it was affiliated with the Methodist Church; it became a junior college by 1931 called Bethune-Cookman College.
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About The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats
The Wildcats are the BCU’s sports teams that compete in the NCAA’s Division I and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, except for football, which competes in the Football Championship Subdivision. The school has been part of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference since 1979. The other teams at the school are basketball, bowling, cross country, track and field and volleyball. The Wildcats have 25 MEAC titles currently: 10 in basketball, 1 in bowling, 1 in men’s cross country, 2 in women’s cross country, 3 in football, 2 in women’s indoor track and field, 5 in softball and 2 in women’s tennis.
The Wildcats’ football team’s home games are played in Municipal Stadium, a 10,000-seat multipurpose stadium, which also hosts the AMA Flat Track motorcycle championships during Daytona Beach Bike Week. Larry Little, an alumnus of the school, an NFL Hall of Fame offensive tackle and the school’s best known alumnus, stood out as a player in the mid 60s and a head coach in the mid 90s. Alvin Wyatt, Sr. is the current head coach for the team; he led them to an 11-2 record in 2002, which was the best in the school’s history. After he played football for BCU, Wyatt played professionally for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, Oakland Raiders and Houston oilers as a defensive back. BCU has an extremely strong rivalry with Florida A&M University. The Rattlers currently lead the series. Since 1973, BCU has made the series more competitive and got 9 of their 11 victories in that time. They meet once a year now in the Florida Classic, which is a regular season neutral site game at Orlando’s Citrus Bowl. This rivalry is seen as the largest between 2 historically black colleges.
