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Frederick “Fritz” Pollard saw what the world was like in the 1890s and the 1980s. He also saw how it changed between then. In fact, he helped it change. Pollard was one of the first two — along with Bobby Marshall — African-Americans in the National Football League in 1920. Pollard was posthumously inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in ...
31 de ene. de 2014 · Fritz Pollard was one of the first African-Americans to play professional football and the first African-American coach, but most football fans have never heard his name. Adam Rank tells his ...
Fritz Pollard was the first African American to play on a championship team (1920), as well as the first Black quarterback (1923) and coach (1919). Pollard’s efforts on behalf of African American athletes were Herculean. He organized Black teams such as the Chicago Black Hawks and the Brown Bombers in order to promote integrated competition ...
Books. Fritz Pollard: Pioneer in Racial Advancement. John M. Carroll. University of Illinois Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 298 pages. This is the inspiring story of an African American whose athletic and entrepreneurial achievements -- from being the first black quarterback and head coach in the National Football League to founding ...
10 de feb. de 2022 · Fritz Pollard blazed a trail as the first Black coach in the NFL. A century later, some say his coaching experience in the league mirrors today's NFL.
Induction. Frederick Douglass Pollard, usually known as "Fritz," was born January 27, 1894, in Chicago and died May 11, 1986, in Silver Spring, Maryland. He played halfback at Brown University and was All-America in 1916. The 1915 Brown team had a 5-4-1 record, including a loss to Washington State in the Rose Bowl. The 1916 Brown team went 8-1.
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard fue el primer entrenador en jefe afroamericano en la historia de la National Football League, y fue el único hasta que Art Shell estuvo a cargo de los Oakland Raiders en 1989. Pollard junto con Bobby Marshall fueron los primeros dos jugadores afroamericanos en la NFL en 1920. El escritor deportivo Walter Camp calificó a Pollard como "uno de los más grandes ...
