European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily the Nils first Black head coach by Al Marvin new York tunes there Are Many things one would never suspect about the old gentleman living in the ram bling two Story White stucco Corner House in new with his wife and German Shep Herd one would never suspect that he was 84 years with his Wavy Gray he could easily pass for and with his slight one would not suspect that i he had been an ail american football player in College and had played pro Ball in the National football another Surprise would be to learn that he was the first Black head coach in the Fritz Pollard was All of in 1916 at Brown univer he became the first Black Al american halfback chosen by Walter the originator of Al american Pollard was also the first Black to play in the Rose bowl january 1916 and to be inducted into the College football Hall of Fame i Frederick Douglass born in has lived a full he was a College coach at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and a High school coach in new he owned Coal companies in Chica go and was the publisher of a Black weekly tabloid in new ran a Harlem studio that made feature movies and was an agent who bad once booked Redd the and although sem retired for More than us he still does some income tax consultation still Pollard is sometimes for before George Allen was rehired As coach of the los an Geles rams Eddie Robinson of Grambling was a candidate for the some reports said then that Rob if he got the would be the first Black head coach in the not i coached at said an original Jill Elgie Tobin was listed As the but when i they were still using some old so i said Why dont we try some of the stuff we had been doing at the Frank told everybody that it they didst want to listen to they could leave right in 1919 Pollard joined the Akron pros in a league called the american professional football it changed the name to National football league the Fol lowing when led by claimed the the pros went through that season including a Victory Over Canton before pollards 24 Points tied him for second in league scor Paul the two time Al american end from was also on the Akron moonlighting while attending Columbia Law in when Akron finished third among the 19 Pollard scored seven touchdowns and his 42 Points led the in the record books he is not listed officially As a head coach until the 1924 and 1925 seasons when he was with the Hammond he is also listed As a player with but he said i Only coached i didst play for them unless it was absolutely in 1928 i went up to coach the Milwaukee but i left after a Little while to go Back and help coach the Akron Hammond is listed As a Road team in the Early nil records it didst have a Home most of its Home games were played in the White sox Ball Park on the South Side of under Pollard the team posted Wonloy settled records of 2jo and i or 141 in the three the record books differ Over the third Pollard recalled Only three other Blacks in the nil in his time Robeson Hammond and Duke Slater Rock Milwaukee and the Chicago cardinals and Ink Williams Dayton and after Joe Lillard left the cardinals in there were no Blacks in the league until when Woody strode and Kenny Washington signed with the los an Geles Marion Motley and Bill Willis signed that same year with the Cleveland Browns of the Aji Ameri new Jofh Dopkeen Pollard scored a string of can football which later merged with the when i came into the i had a reputation As the first Black said noting that the Early nil depended heavily on name College there was much opposition to his he Akron was a factory town and they had some prejudiced people he i had to get dressed for the games in Frank needs Cigar factory and they Send a car Over for me before the the fans booed me and called me All kinds of because they had a lot of southerners up there you  eat in the restaurants or stay in the Hammond and Milwaukee were bad but never As bad As Akron the opposing teams gave me from us College he he Learned to Roll on his Back when knocked Down and cock his feet ready to kick any players who might want to pile on he was 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed 165 and relied on Speed and guile More than he was never seriously Hurt on the quite an accomplishment those when the opposing players would try to Lay me my teammates would take sides with he Pollard bowed out of the nil after a stint with the Providence steam rollers in he is not in the pro Hall of Fame except As a footnote in the history his second the former Mary Ella worked Tor the Amsterdam a Manhattan until her retirement a few years they have been married More than 30 among pollards four All by his first the Only son is Fritz he was a Little All America football player at North Dakota state and an olympic winning a Bronze medal in the 1936 games in i hardly watch pro football on television said he also said he didst envy today players for their lucrative i made lots of Money playing pro As much As a he Back to Gunge Din by Hugh Mulligan associated press film critic on one of the big metropolitan dailies wrote the other Day because of the Success of Star family films Are making a theres Good  it be something Hollywood again started turning out really great ivies like Gunge the hound the and they died their boots on even a shone two or a son of Beau then for it was a tipped her hand and her idea of one of the Best at the recent family and it sure sounded like a Turkey to a hero aint nothing but a san Taich was the civics and explained the plot about Yearou los Angelet ghetto boy who turn to drug after in red father the family us he has trouble adjusting to us Moth How does that grab you according to the child Star playing the Young what the movie in trying to say is that s got to be some kind of communication Between Yone to the which t guess is the Way 13 i Owsuik these Days when there brought up on on my bulb birthday my family took me to h family called Ima Olion of which the critics then Lily said had something important to say about the i for communication Ana i sulked for a week in my room communicating Only with my Best friends in the owl patrol on my boy scout Morse code it was a Weenie that  the critic went on to say that there were several other pirated films around despite sem nude love scenes or four letter most critics would agree Are suitable viewing for most parents i know have More sense than most film critics i know and so do most kids i love whether played la the Buff or in Eskimo parkas on us Back of a dog Are always drag on the detaining the hero when be should be heading pm off at the pass or coaxing of the Lead dog to hot foot that Pencil la to the old trap pers hut any kid Worth his Popcorn bums a couple of years Back Hollywood did a remake of the front Page and brought in a fancy priced screen writer to insert a lot of four letter words into the classic Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur this not Only made the film embarrassing and boringly Long for family watching but defused the great five letter word ending when the  stole the Fellows they reran the front Page on television a few weeks ago with All the childish adult words deleted do you it played just As maybe even personally Ive always Felt movie dialogue went As As it ought to go when Clark Gable told Vivian Utah he didst give a when i was a family films were som Thitu you went to with your parents on your birthday or moms birthday or when you brought Home a Good report May 1978 they were fun because it meant being allowed out at provided your Homework was and there was usually a better class of audience than at the sat urday morning matinee that what they called it when the chapter was at least the manager want always shining his flashlight up the Yelling at patrons with their feet on the and half the House want taking its Little brother to the it was Nice having your parents around for the Creepy parts of the cat and the Canary and King even if they occasionally did suffer a lapse of taste and drag you off to a snoring Tal Kathon like Little the Littlest rebel or Little lord even now i always avoid pictures with Little in the unless Edward Robinson is pictured out Side cradling u All the favorite family flicks looming up out of my childhood we rent adventure tales or blood and guts sagas like the sea Wolf and Fieo the the win i look Back fondly on the with Robert and mow Green wat my Valley and mems marvelous David Copperfield with Lionel Edna Mae Oliver and Freddie Bertho whom i got Over hating from Little lord Faytle Why dont they make pictures anymore like Young Tom boys captains Pride of the the Long Gray line and Steamboat on the Verl nothing vile or violent a warm glow for a Rosy feeling in the after All these id even pass up Henry Fonda As the outlaw Frank James to see him As Young Abe Lincoln one More the stars and stripes Page 13