The first African American Division 1 head football coach was Willie Jeffries at Wichita State in 1979.
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At 20 years old, John Mitchell became the youngest coach in college football at the time, as well as Alabama's first African-American assistant coach.
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Pat Fitzgerald is the youngest person to ever become a head coach in NCAA Division 1-A history. He was just 31 when he became the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats football team in 2006.
Fritz Pollard was the first African American quarterback in the NFL. He was also the first African American coach in the NFL.
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