According to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football - or soccer as it is known in North America - is played by upwards of 240 million people worldwide. Records ...
Fritz Pollard was the first Black head coach in pro football history. He led the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association, later renamed the NFL, in 1921. (Dave Pickoff/AP ...
Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...