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Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was an American professional football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first African-American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first two African-American players in the NFL in 1920.
As of December 31, 2018, two of the 32 head coaches in the NFL were African-American, with one Hispanic head coach. [19] As of 2020, the NFL had three African-American head coaches, the same number as in 2003 when the Rooney Rule was adopted. [20] Entering the 2024 season, the number of minority head coaches by NFL definition was nine.
There are six Black head coaches entering 2024 — Morris, Mayo, Pierce, Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles and […] The post 9 people of color are NFL head coaches in 2024 ...
Reid, Tomlin, Harbaugh, and McVay have won Super Bowls with their current teams, while Payton won with his previous team. Reid is the oldest active coach at 66 years old while the youngest is Mike Macdonald at 37. McVay at 30 was the youngest head coach at the time of hiring in modern NFL history and the youngest to win a Super Bowl at 36.
USA Today’s NFL Editor Doug Farrar tweeted, “In an NFL where well over 70% of the players are Black, there are now two Black head coaches. Two. 6.25% of the group. Two. 6.25% of the group.
NFL. Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2016) – the first black head coach of the modern era, he is the second of all time to Fritz Pollard, to receive this honor. (Former Oakland Raiders player and head coach Art Shell was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989, but for his accomplishments as a player.) [93] NCAA
When I started coaching, there may have been one African American coach on a staff. "Notice I said, ‘May have been.'" The interesting part of this story is that college basketball passed this ...