The University of Maryland is renaming Cole Field House, the legendary site of Terps basketball games for nearly five decades and now the site of the football team’s new indoor practice facility, after the first Black men to integrate basketball and football at the university and in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
University President Darryll Pines made the announcement during his inauguration ceremony Thursday that the facility would be named the Jones-Hill House to honor Darryl Hill, who broke the color barrier in football for the university in 1963, as well as Billy Jones, who made history in 1965 as the Terps’ first black basketball player.