Hall of Fame
• New Orleanian, graduate of Xavier Prep School
• XULA’s starting football quarterback for four seasons
• Helped XULA achieve its two winningest seasons: 7-1 in 1950 and 8-1 in 1951 . . . The 1951 Gold Rush won at home 25-7 against Grambling and 22-8 against Southern
• As a freshman on Nov. 24, 1949 — Thanksgiving Day — he passed to Lorenzo Merriweather on fourth down for the the winning touchdown with one minute remaining in a
23-19 victory at city rival Dillard . . . Attendance: 7,500
• Three-sport XULA athlete; he also played basketball and baseball
• The Gold Rush were 22-11 during Flint’s football tenure
• Post-XULA:
— Participated in tryout with baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals at the Cardinals’ Sportsman’s Park
— Head football coach his first two seasons out of college at Burglund High School of McComb, Miss. . . . In his
debut season (1953) he coached the Lions to an 8-0-1 record and the state championship for black schools . . . Burglund defeated the Greenville Tigers 19-7 in the title game
— Head football coach at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans and won three state championships in the Louisiana Interscholastic and Literary Organization (LIALO): 1963, 1965 and 1966 . . . The Purple Knights were unbeaten in 1965 and1966
— His 1964 St. Aug team was an LIALO state semifinalist and finished 9-1-1
— His 1963 St. Aug team snapped Carroll’s 36-game win streak with a 20-0 victory in the LIALO semifinals, then won the school’s first state title (Class AAA) with an 18-9 victory Dec. 8 against Xavier Prep . . . 12,000 attended the all-New Orleans matchup at City Park Stadium (now known as Tad Gormley Stadium), and Xavier Prep’s head coach, Willie McKee, was a football teammate of Flint at XULA
— St. Aug football defensive coordinator under Otis Washington — 2022 XULA hall-of-fame inductee — during the 1970s; Flint helped the Purple Knights win LHSAA state championships in 1975, 1978 and 1979 in the LHSAA’s highest classification at the time, AAAA . . . St. Aug’s defense recorded 50 shutouts during the 1970s
— 2010 recipent of the Eddie Robinson Award from the Greater New Orleans Sports Awards Committee,
sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl . . . Award criteria includes outstanding achievement in athletics, academics, sportsmanship and citizenship by maximizing the use of limited resources
