Chip Silverman

Howard Burton "Chip" Silverman (1942 to 2008) was an American author, public health administrator and lacrosse coach from Baltimore, Maryland. He played lacrosse at Forest Park High School, and in 1970, while an administrator at Morgan State University, he founded and coached a lacrosse club there after noticing that many of the city's black high school players could not continue the sport at Morgan. The Morgan Bears were invited into the United States Small College Lacrosse League in 1972 and in 1975 beat top ranked Washington and Lee. The team was described as the only African American college lacrosse team in the NCAA, and he was inducted into the Morgan State University Hall of Fame in 1991. He wrote five books, including Ten Bears about that team, and died in Baltimore in 2008.