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The Great Depression of 1929 created hardships for African-American players. With the stock market collapsed, white owners of the teams didn't want to pay African-American players. The owners claimed that it would be a bad look to see African-Americans working and getting paid while so many white people were without a job.
In 2005, Pollard was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [1] [20] The demise of the competing American Football League (AFL) in the 1920s left a "glut of available white players eager to sign on with the NFL, rendering black players expendable." [1] In 1926, there were five black players in the NFL, in 1927 only one.
In gridiron football and its variants, American football and Canadian football, the quarterback position is often considered the most important on the team. While there have been a growing number of players of African or minority descent throughout the history of collegiate and professional football, black players have historically faced difficulty in landing and retaining quarterback roles ...
George Taliaferro (January 8, 1927 – October 8, 2018) was an American professional football player who was the first African American drafted by a National Football League (NFL) team. [2] Beginning his football career at Indiana University for the Hoosiers team , he played in the NFL for the New York Yanks from 1950 to 1951, the Dallas Texans ...
First African American professional basketball player: Harry Lew (New England Professional Basketball League) [13] (See also: 1950); First African-American professional American football player: Charles Follis [citation needed] [14]
Colin Kaepernick (African-American father) - professional football player; L ... (African American father), professional golfer, winner of 14 major championships [58]
In October 2018, George Taliaferro, the first African American who played in the NFL died at the age of 91. [64] While George was the first African American drafted to play in the NFL, the first African American would not be drafted as the Quarterback until 1953, when Willie Thrower was drafted to play with the Chicago Bears. [65]
Beginning in 1935 Canadian teams began to recruit American players, a trend that continues today. At this time, the CFL was a legitimate competitor to the NFL, paying comparable wages and attracting a similar level of talent. However, there were no African Americans on any Canadian football team until 1946. [2]