by Steve Love | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
Photo provided by library.brown.edu Brown University 1916 captain Mark Farnum leads Fritz Pollard (circled) toward Harvard goal line NOTE: I am posting a serial about Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard, star of the Akron Pros and first Black coach in the NFL....
by Steve Love | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
tournamentofroses.com Photo The 1915 Brown University team led by Fritz Pollard received a surprise Rose Bowl invite NOTE: I am posting a serial about Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard, star of the Akron Pros and first Black coach in the NFL. This...
by Steve Love | Aug 10, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash When Fritz Pollard became Brown University’s greatest player, he sometimes felt as if he were all alone NOTE: I am posting a serial concerning Pro Football Hall of Famer Fritz Pollard, star of the Akron Pros and first Black...
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...
