Was this before they let Black people play in the NFL? If so it doesnt count. Much like the time before they allowed Black people play in the NBA. The real competition was missing.
There were black players since the NFLs inception.
Like i said in the other thread, 7/8s of what you say is made up.
Hey retard. The NFL begin in 1920. No Black players until 1946. Math must be hard for you.
Excuse me....do the research before you make a comment like that:
Early years[edit]
Charles Follis is believed to be the first black professional football player, having played for the
Shelby Steamfitters from 1902 to 1906. Follis, a two-sport athlete, was paid for his work beginning in 1899.
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From its inception in
1920 as a loose coalition of various regional teams, the
American Professional Football Association had comparatively few
African-American players; a total of nine black players suited up for NFL teams between 1920 and 1926, including future attorney, black activist, and internationally acclaimed artist
Paul Robeson, as well as famed
race record producer
J. Mayo Williams.
Fritz Pollard and
Bobby Marshall were the first black players in what is now the NFL in 1920. Pollard became the first (and until 1989, only) black coach in 1921; during the early-to-mid-1920s, the league used
player-coaches and did not have separate coaching staffs.[
citation needed]
1927 through 1933[edit]
After
1926, all five of the black players that were still in the subsequent
National Football League left the league. Several teams were kicked out of the league that year, and with a large number of available, talented white players, black players were generally the first to be removed, never to return again. For the next few years, a black player would sporadically pop up on a team:
Harold Bradley Sr. played one season with the
Chicago Cardinals in 1928, and David Myers played for two New York City-based teams in 1930 and 1931.
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In contrast, ethnic minorities of other races were fairly common. Thanks to the efforts of the
Carlisle Indian School football program, which ended with the school's closure in 1918, there were numerous
Native Americans in the NFL through the 1920s and 1930s, most famously
Jim Thorpe. The
Dayton Triangles also featured the first two Asian-Americans in the NFL, Chinese-Hawaiian running back
Walter Achiu and Japanese-Scottish quarterback
Arthur Matsu, both in 1928, and the first Hispanic players in the NFL, Cuban immigrant
Ignacio Molinet of the 1927
Frankford Yellow Jackets and
Jess Rodriguez of the 1929
Buffalo Bisons, played in the NFL during this time frame.
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1934 to 1945[edit]
In
1933, the last year of integration, the NFL had two black players,
Joe Lillard and
Ray Kemp. Both were gone by the end of the season: Lillard, due largely to his tendency to get into fights, was not invited back to the
Chicago Cardinals[2][3] despite in 1933 being responsible for almost half of the Cardinals' points, while Kemp quit of his own accord to pursue a coaching career (one that turned out to be long and successful).
[4][5] Many observers will attribute the subsequent lockout of black players to the entry of
George Preston Marshall into the league in 1932. Marshall openly refused to have black athletes on his
Boston Braves/Washington Redskins team, and reportedly pressured the rest of the league to follow suit. Marshall, however, was likely not the only reason: the
Great Depression had stoked an increase in racism and self-inflicted segregation across the country, and internal politics likely had as much of an effect as external pressure.
[4] Marshall's hostility was specifically directed at the black race; he openly allowed (and promoted) Native Americans on his team, including his first head coach,
Lone Star Dietz, widely believed to be a Native American at the time.
The choice of Redskins as his team name in 1933 was in part to maintain the native connotations that came with the team's previous name, the
Boston Braves.
[6] Another reason for Marshall's anti-black sentiment was to curry favor in the
Southern United States. Marshall's Redskins had a strong following in that part of the country, which he vigorously defended, and he stood up against the NFL's efforts to put
expansion teams in the South until
Clint Murchison, Jr.'s successful extortion attempt (Murchison acquired the rights to the
Redskins' fight song and threatened not to let Marshall use the song unless he got an expansion team in Dallas) led to the establishment of the
Dallas Cowboys in 1960.
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By
1934, there were no more black players in the league.
[8][9] The NFL did not have another black player until after World War II.
Most black players either ended up in the minor leagues (six joined the
American Association and several others found their way into the
Pacific Coast Professional Football League) or found themselves onto all-black
barnstorming teams such as the
Harlem Brown Bombers. Unlike in baseball, where the
Negro leagues flourished, no true football Negro league was known to exist until 1946, and by this time, the major leagues had begun reintegrating.
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