Manuel Rivero

Manuel Rivero (November 3, 1908 – August 23, 2001), nicknamed "The Golden Flash", was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.

A native of Havana, Cuba, Rivero was a three-year football lettermen at Columbia University from 1930 to 1932. Between 1930 and 1934, he played professional baseball in the Negro leagues for the Cuban Stars (East) and Pollock's Cuban Stars. Rivero went on to hold a variety of coaching positions at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania from 1933 to 1977. The school's home gymnasium, Manuel Rivero Hall, is named in his honor. Rivero died in Rising Sun, Maryland in 2001 at age 92.