He was part of the Dartmouth football team that defeated Harvard at the dedication event of the Dartmouth stadium in later 1903. In his senior year Bullock was on the varsity football team and achieved national recognition. He had greater success in his junior year, despite playing only the first six games. Bullock sang as a baritone soloist at a Vermont Church in April, 1903. In his Sophomore year he won first place in the broad jump and was successful in football. The following year he started as a defensive end on the football team, and played well. He finished second in the high jump at an event that year. Bullock was the first African American to play football at Dartmouth, but he played a game his freshman year. He enrolled at Dartmouth in the autumn and was elected to the Glee Club for his singing abilities, as well as serving on the track team for all four years. He had to start working to pay his tuitions. His father sent him $50 for his tuition (around1300 dollars in 2021 ) and enrolled him at Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College īullock while coach at Massachusetts Agricultural and Mechanical Schoolīullock was to start his time at Dartmouth College in 1901. Jesse and Amanda were listed as illiterate while all children were listed as literate. Jesse and Joseph, the eldest, were day laborers though also been unemployed some months of the previous year. In June 1900 the US Census records recorded that six children between the ages of 29 and 15 lived with Jesse and Joseph. Bullock was listed as a member of the Center School Alumni association of the fall 1899. Brother Henry was also a star athlete at Everett. He then attended Everett High School, where he was the first African-American captain of the high school team as well as captaining the hockey("ice polo") and baseball teams Bullock was recognized as among the best athletes of the school.
Bullock attended public schools and in 1896 Matthew graduated from Everett Center Grammar School.
In 1889 the family moved to Boston "with seven children and a ten dollar bill,”. His parents, Jesse and Amanda (Sneed) Bullock. Matthew Washington Bullock born September 11, 1881, in Dabney, North Carolina. Matthew Washington Bullock (Septem– December 17, 1972) was an American lawyer, politician and human rights activist. American football coach (1904–1908), lawyer (from 1912), college professor/dean (1908–1917), Boston Urban League (from 1919), assistant to the Massachusetts Attorney General (1924–1927), State Parole Board (1927–1937), State Department of Corrections (1937–1943) and regional board of the Massachusetts Bar Association (from 1937), State Parole Board (1943–1949) (chair from 1944), national board of the Urban League, (from 1945) National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States: 1952–1953 1953–1954 (resigned 1953 to pioneer to Curaçao), and Zoning Commission Board (1965–1966)
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