by Steve Love | Aug 9, 2021 | Blog
Brown University photo Van Wickle Gates on Brown’s College Hill weren’t easy to open NOTE: I am posting a serial concerning Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard, star of the Akron Pros and first Black coach in the NFL. This is Part 4 of 13....
by Steve Love | Aug 8, 2021 | Blog
Pro Football Hall of Fame via Brown University Photos Fritz Pollard grew up in Rogers Park, an all-white Chicago neighborhood before the Pollard family integrated it. Pollard biographer John Carroll speculated that John Pollard, who owned a barber shop, and wife...
by Steve Love | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
Pro Football Hall of Fame Photo via Brown University A Note from Steve Love: This serialization comes from a long essay on Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard who played for the Akron Pros at the dawn of the NFL. It was intended as part of a book about...
by Steve Love | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
Pro Football Hall of Fame Photo via Brown University A Note from Steve Love: This serialization comes from a long essay on Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard who played for the Akron Pros at the dawn of the NFL. It was intended as part of a book about...
by Steve Love | Aug 1, 2021 | Blog
With the July death of Shirley Webster, queen of the Webster ranch and Shoat Webster’s great love, perhaps the greatest of great steer ropers, Shoat once again loomed as large as life in the old mind of a little boy who had revered his very name. Shoat and his...
