The first African American Division 1 head football coach was Willie Jeffries at Wichita State in 1979.
Clemson's head football coach is Dabo Swinney.
The Cardinals' first season in the NFL was 1920 and their head coach was Paddy Driscoll. He was head coach from 1920-1922.
Reggie Barlow ... 2007 was his first season as head coach of the Hornets.
Charles Bemies
Mark Richt is the University of Georgia's head coach for the football team
John Michelosen was the head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1955-1965.
Bobby Bowden's first season as head coach at Florida State was 1976. The head coach before him was Dan Mudra who coached the team for two seasons, 1974 and 1975.
Bob Stoops was hired as head football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners on 1st December, 1998.
David Thornton began his first year as head football coach on January 15, 2014. The two previous seasons, he was offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator for the Bobcats.
BYU's first season of football was 1922 when they went 1-5 under head coach Alvin Twitchell.
If by division one football you actually mean the Football Bowl Subdivision (at the time known as I-A), then FA Dry may be the first. He first became a head coach at Tulsa in 1972. That predates Willie Jeffries, who was the first African-American head coach at a I-A school, coaching at Wichita State in 1979. There have been many African American head coaches at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, many of which are now at the Football Championship Subdivision (previously I-AA). Since Joe Paterno has had 111 wins vacated, Eddie Robinson is considered by the NCAA to be the winningest coach in division one football history, having started as the head coach of Grambling in 1941. Grambling is in the Southwestern Athletic Conference at the FCS level.