Title:
Brown was first Ivy League school in the Rose Bowl
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Harvard
Brown University
Rose Bowl, Tournament of Roses
Frederick Douglass Pollard (Fritz), African American
Brown University
Rose Bowl, Tournament of Roses
Frederick Douglass Pollard (Fritz), African American
Object ID:
Kim10-065
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
01/02/2006
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
Harvard's Rose Bowl wasn't the first Ivy League school to play in the Tournament of Roses. Brown University had been there four years before, in 1916. The Tournament of Roses began in 1890 but it was not until 1902 the Tournament decided to include a football game: Stanford University against the University of Michigan. They were to give up football in favor of chariot races but by 1916 the Tournament decided to try football once more: the State College of Washington and Brown. Brown's team on New Year's Day 1916 was led by Frederick Douglass Pollard (Fritz), the first African-American to play in the New Year's classic and the first to be named All American. After Pollard's sports career he founded the first black investment firm of F.D.Pollard & Co. He died May 11, 1986.
People:
Stamm, Bill
Pollard, Frederick Douglass (Fritz)
Thorpe, Jim
Pollard, Frederick Douglass (Fritz)
Thorpe, Jim
Search Terms:
Rose Bowl
Tournament of Roses
Brown University
Harvard
college football
African-American
F.D.Pollard & Co.
Tournament of Roses
Brown University
Harvard
college football
African-American
F.D.Pollard & Co.