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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:56:56 EDT
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- From: Donna Gagnier <LIBGAGNIER%minna.acc.iit.edu@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
- Subject: Re: Fritz Pollard
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- >One of our students is in need of some information on the coaching career
- >of Fritz Pollard, the first black All-American at a major US university
- >(Brown) and a star in the early National Football League. Our information
- >is that he coached a professional team in Hammond, IN around 1923-1925.
- >Does anybody out there have any particulars about his career? Was he, in
- >fact, the first black professional football coach?
- >Most of the information we have been able to find in standard sources
- >deal with his playing career at Brown and the NFL, and also mention
- >that he was involved in the motion picture industry during World War II.
- >Any other information would be appreciated.
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- >Please respond to my personal Internet address.
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- >Thank you.
- >
- >Jim Hewitt
- >reference librarian
- >Concordia College
- >Moorhead, MN 56562
- >hewitt@vax.cord.edu
- Try a 1992 book: Fritz Pollard:pioneer in racial advancement
- by John M. Carroll Urbana:University of Illinois Press.
- isbn 0252018141.
- Found by using "Fritz Pollard" with keyworded title command
- on Illinet. accessible by internet.
- Donna Gagnier Ref/BI
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- libgagnier@minna.iit.edu
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