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Sports
Pollard's pioneer work in NFL had major impact
Sports Column by Stuart Crosby
stuart@newnan.com
When Art Shell was named the head coach of the then-Los Angeles Raiders in the 1989, he was credited by some as being the first African-American coach in the National Football League since a gentleman named Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard during the 1920s.
