Fritz Pollard Award

Jet, March 8, 2004

FRITZ POLLARD AWARD: Floyd Keith (l), executive director of the Black Coaches Association (BCA), and David Roach, Brown University athletic director, view a mock-up of the Fritz Pollard Award (l) in Providence, RI. Brown University and the BCA recently announced that they will co-sponsor the annual award to be presented to the college or professional coach chosen by the BCA as coach of the year.

The award honors Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (inset), Brown class of 1919, the first Black to play in the Rose Bowl (1916), first to quarterback in the NFL and first to coach in the NFL. "He endured an awful lot to be able to play football and coach football and advance racial issues," Roach said of Pollard, who died in 1986 at age 92. The first award will be presented June 5 in Indianapolis.

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