Fritz Pollard.
Fritz Pollard.
Fritz Pollard
Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall --> 1920
Fritz Pollard for the 1920 Akron Pros and Bobby Marshall for the 1920 Rock Island Independents.
Bobby Marshall, along with Fritz Pollard, were the first two African Americans to play in the NFL in 1920. Pollard played for the Akron Pros and Marshall played for the Rock Island Independants
NFL player Bernard Pollard played for Purdue.
Fritz Pollard was the first African American quarterback in the NFL. He was also the first African American coach in the NFL.
That was the Akron Pros (Fritz Pollard) and the Rock Island Independants (Bobby Marshall) in the 1920 season, the first season of the League.
That was Fritz Pollard who was head coach of the Akron Pros in 1921. As far as 'modern day' NFL goes, that would be Art Shell who became head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1989 season.
Fritz Pollard was the first African-American coach in the National Football League. He coached the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1920s.
Bernard Pierce plays for the Baltimore Ravens.