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Originally Posted by DezHood
One last thing - I really like this chart that Neal Rozendall gives us:
1920 – 2 (Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall)
1921 – 4
1922 – 5
1923 – 5
1924 – 3
1925 – 5
1926 – 5
1927 – 1 (Duke Slater)
1928 – 2
1929 – 1 (Duke Slater)
1930 – 2
1931 – 2
1932 – 1 (Joe Lillard)
1933 – 2 (Joe Lillard and Ray Kemp)
It shows that participation by black players in the early NFL was never that great and after some teams folded before the 27 season, it was very limited. Football wasn't that different than Baseball after all. Images of these guys would make for a nice "pioneer" collection. Something else I learned - Duke Slater is a pretty solid HOF candidate - another player lost in the shuffle of history - I plan to read up some more on his career myself.
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Fantastic stuff, John! Really enjoyed the links to Neal Rozendaal's blog entries about the Forgotten Four as well. Great, great stuff.
I just read Joe Carr's bio and recall there were some discussion in it about this issue and will have to go back now and see how well this discussion aligns with Neal's thoughts.
jeff