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    Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was an American professional football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first...
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    African Americans, would be considered for high-level coaching positions. Fritz Pollard was the first minority head coach in NFL history (which was during the...
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  • Fritz Pollard Jr. (February 18, 1915 – February 15, 2003) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles, winning a bronze model...
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    modern-day quarterback" or "the closest thing to it." Single-wing tailback Fritz Pollard, a key figure in the early days of the NFL, became the league's first...
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  • Association (later renamed the National Football League (NFL) in 1922). Fritz Pollard, the first black head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Akron Pros in...
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  • Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard played with the team in 1923 and 1924. Coach Charlie Copley, a former teammate of Pollard's with the Akron Pros and...
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    1920 season would be most of last year's team, including quarterback Fritz Pollard. The Pros also added end Bob Nash, who previously played for the Tigers...
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  • Intel, Facebook, Pinterest, and Amazon. In 2003, Mehri cofounded the Fritz Pollard Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to diversity in the NFL. This affinity...
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  • the Pros, including the first African-American head coach in the NFL, Fritz Pollard, and the successful music producer Mayo "Ink" Williams. "Duluth Eskimos...
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    Brown University Archives (January 10–31, 2005). "About Fritz Pollard". Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African-American Experience at Brown. Brown University...
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    a portion of their career in the short-lived World Football League. Fritz Pollard is the only player to play in the Anthracite League's only season. One...
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    as a waiter in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, where he befriended Fritz Pollard, later to be the first African-American coach in the National Football...
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  • Sports Management Worldwide. In 2003, Wooten became the Chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, an advocacy group who works in conjunction with the National...
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    Army during the American Civil War. Luther's brother Frederick "Fritz" Douglass Pollard played football for Brown University, worked for the studio, coached...
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  • pitcher Fritz Felix Pipes (1887–1983), Austrian Olympic medalist tennis player Fritz Pollard (1894–1986), American football player and coach Fritz-Georg...
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  • all-African American professional football team established in 1928 by Fritz Pollard (who was also the team's quarterback, running back, coach, and owner)...
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  • labeled as "a grand homecoming celebration for the world's champions". Fritz Pollard was congratulated during an Akron Merchants Association of Colored Business...
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    As commissioner, Bell oversaw the integration of the NFL. Although Fritz Pollard was the first African American to play in the NFL, appearing with three...
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    recommended by Fritz Pollard Alliance to be NFL head coach". TwinCities.com. Retrieved February 22, 2017. "Flea Flicker: Fritz Pollard Alliance Awards"...
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    Retrieved August 3, 2008. "About Fritz Pollard". Brown University Library. Retrieved January 15, 2009. "Fritz Pollard | Pro Football Hall of Fame Official...
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  • Stanton De Priest First African American to play in a Rose Bowl game: Fritz Pollard, Brown University First African American to become a colonel in the...
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    Weller 2001 Ali Chauncey Eskridge 2002 Dragonfly Hugh Campbell The Fritz Pollard Story Host Television film 2003 Jasper, Texas Walter Diggles Crossing...
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    Thurgood Marshall (BA 1930) and Langston Hughes (BA 1929). James Farmer Fritz Pollard John Aubrey Davis, Sr., professor of political science (1949–53) James...
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  • Justice Committee. She and Jimmy received the Tank Younger Award from the Fritz Pollard Alliance for having built one of the most diverse front offices in all...
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    acclaimed artist Paul Robeson. Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first black players in what is now the NFL in 1920. Pollard became the first black coach...
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    Eddie O'Brien (r) Jesse Owens Bob Packard Joe Patterson Eino Pentti Fritz Pollard Mack Robinson Archie San Romani Dale Schofield Harold Smallwood Roy...
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  • Frederick Pollard may refer to: Fred G. Pollard (1918–2003), American lawyer and Virginian politician Fritz Pollard (1894–1986), American football player...
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    for The Lone Ranger Marisol Nichols, actress David Orr, politician Fritz Pollard, coach, NFL Hall of Fame Harold Ramis, actor, writer, director Dan Savage...
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  • players: Fritz Pollard (Akron Pros) and Bobby Marshall (Rock Island Independents) First African American NFL football coach: Fritz Pollard, co-head coach...
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  • Penn State 2015 – Mark Brunell, Washington; Jim Muldoon (Pac-10); Fritz Pollard, Brown; and Tyrone Wheatley, Michigan 2016 – Bobby Bell, Minnesota;...
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