| Ish5Knights
February 1, 2011
2:27:42 AM
Entry #: 3647675
| Happy black history month. Here's some black history as it pertains to football. Details of the history of black players in American professional football depend on the professional football league considered: the National Football League (NFL), which evolved from the first professional league, the American Professional Football Association, or the American Football League, (AFL), a rival league from 1960 through 1969, which eventually merged with the NFL. Even from its inception in 1920, the American Professional Football Association had comparatively few African-American players a total of nine black people suited up for NFL teams between 1920 and 1926. Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first black players in what is now the NFL in 1920. Pollard became the first black coach in 1921.
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