Fritz Pollard Jr.

Fritz Pollard (actually Frederick Douglass Pollard Jr., born February 18, 1915 in Springfield, Massachusetts, † February 14, 2003 in Washington, DC) was an American hurdler who specializes route was the 110-meter distance.

The son of African-American American football pioneer Fritz Pollard was distinguished already at the Nicholas Senn High School in athletics and in American football from. As a student at the University of North Dakota, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Berlin, where he won behind his compatriot Forrest Towns and Briton Don Finlay bronze. 1938, nominated in the All- American football selection.

Pollard initiated in the course of his career, the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity of the U.S. State Department.