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==Early Life==
==Early Life==
Pollard was born in Chicago on January 27, 1894. He attended Lane Tech High School where he played football, baseball, and ran track. Pollard attended [[Brown University]], majoring in chemistry. Pollard played half-back on the Brown football team, which went to the [[1916 Rose Bowl]]. <ref> Reasons and Patrick, "Pollard Set Records as Black Football player, Coach." '''The Plain Dealer''', Cleveland, Ohio, 1972, February 27, Section E: 5. </ref> He became the first black to be named to the [[Walter Camp]] [[All-America]] team.
Pollard was born in Chicago on January 27, 1894. He attended Lane Tech High School where he played football, baseball, and ran track. Pollard attended [[Brown University]], majoring in chemistry. Pollard played half-back on the Brown football team, which went to the [[1916 Rose Bowl]]. <ref> Reasons and Patrick, "Pollard Set Records as Black Football player, Coach." '''The Plain Dealer''', Cleveland, Ohio, 1972, February 27, Section E: 5. </ref> He became the first black to be named to the [[Walter Camp]] [[All-America]] team.
hes good at football


==Professional football player==
==Professional football player==

Revision as of 21:49, 5 February 2013

This article is about the African American football pioneer. For his son, the Olympic hurdler, see Fritz Pollard, Jr.
Frederick Douglass Pollard
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Personal information
Born:(1894-01-27)January 27, 1894
Chicago, Illinois
Died:May 11, 1986(1986-05-11) (aged 92)
Silver Spring, Maryland
Career information
College:Brown
Career history
As a player:
As a coach:
Career highlights and awards
  • 1x NFL Championship (1920)
  • 1x First-Team All Pro (1920)
  • Inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame (2005)
Career NFL statistics as of 1926
Touchdowns:16

Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920. Sportswriter Walter Camp ranked Pollard as "one of the greatest runners these eyes have ever seen."

Early Life

Pollard was born in Chicago on January 27, 1894. He attended Lane Tech High School where he played football, baseball, and ran track. Pollard attended Brown University, majoring in chemistry. Pollard played half-back on the Brown football team, which went to the 1916 Rose Bowl. [1] He became the first black to be named to the Walter Camp All-America team. hes good at football

Professional football player

He later played pro football with the Akron Pros, the team he would lead to the NFL (APFA) championship in 1920. In 1921, he became the co-head coach of the Akron Pros, while still maintaining his roster position as running back. He also played for the Milwaukee Badgers, Hammond Pros, Gilberton Cadamounts, Union Club of Phoenixville and Providence Steam Roller. Some sources indicate that Pollard also served as co-coach of the Milwaukee Badgers with Al Garrett for part of the 1922 season. He also coached the non-NFL team Gilberton. In 1923 and 1924, he served as head coach for the Hammond, Indiana football team. [2]

Pollard, along with all nine of the black players in the NFL at the time, were removed from the league at the end of the 1926 season, never to return again. He spent some time organizing all-black barnstorming teams, including the Chicago Black Hawks in 1928 and the Harlem Brown Bombers in the 1930s.

Legacy

In 2005, Fritz Pollard was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He appears as a free agent in Madden NFL 09 and Madden NFL 10 and is also a part of the game's Hall of Fame feature.

Pollard's son Fritz Pollard, Jr. won the bronze medal for 110 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.[3]

The Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group promoting minority hiring throughout the NFL, is named for Pollard.

Brown University and the Black Coaches & Administrators co-sponsor the annual Fritz Pollard Award, which is presented to the college or professional coach chosen by the BCA as coach of the year.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Reasons and Patrick, "Pollard Set Records as Black Football player, Coach." The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1972, February 27, Section E: 5.
  2. ^ Reasons and Patrick, "Pollard Set Records as Black Football player, Coach." The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1972, February 27, Section E: 5.
  3. ^ "Alpha Athletes at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany". Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
  4. ^ Brown University - Brown University and the Black Coaches Association establish annual Fritz Pollard Award February 18, 2004

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