02/13/2023
In 1921, while he was still a player, the team also named Frederick Pollard its coach -- the first African-American head coach in the National Football League. Over the next even years, Pollard coached four different teams and founded a Chicago football team of all-African American players. Later, he launched a newspaper and ran a successful investment firm. Pollard was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.