African American football players
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
College Football All-Stars vs. Professional Teams Charity Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBG 624
Scope and Contents
This collection contains programs for charity football games between college football all-star teams and teams of professional football players.
Formats include programs.
Dates:
1833-1953
Harrisburg Trojans Homemade Fan Poster
Collection — Box MSSP F3 CC-0001: Series BKP670-Series-4; Series MSSP10070-Series-1, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSSP_10118
Scope and Contents
One homemade fan poster of the Harrisburg Trojans football team. The poster consists of clippings pasted to a piece of cardboard from an unknown printed book or program about the Harrisburg Trojans written by Manager Ned Givens in about 1945.The poster includes a summary page that reads:“The 1945 Harrisburg Trojans professional football club have played five games thus far this season, and they are proud after eight years of playing to honor the loyal fans with this...
Dates:
1945
Leslie Pollard Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1008
Content Description
The Leslie Pollard Letters consists of four letters pertaining to Leslie Pollard, African American athlete, football player, football coach, and journalist. Pollard wrote three of the letters to his wife Eleanor Pitts Pollard while serving as the Head Coach of the Lincoln University football team in the fall of 1914. Pollard addressed the letters with various nicknames for his wife and discussed several topics including the 1914 Lincoln University football season, events at the ...
Dates:
1913-1914