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Title: Sports legend Fritz Pollard's older brother as coach of the Black Lincoln University football and basketball teams Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1914 Description: Leslie Pollard. Autograph Letter Signed as Coach, Lincoln University Athletic Association. [Oxford], Pennsylvania, Oct. 12 [1914]. 3pp. To “Miler”, a woman friend in New York. Leslie’s younger brother “Fred” (later nicknamed Fritz) had just graduated from high school and was roaming from college to college, looking for one that would both admit him and let him play football - first Harvard, then Bates in Maine, then Dartmouth, where Leslie had been a football star years before. “That kid is just crazy”, wrote Leslie, eight years older than Fritz, who was bombarding his brother with telegrams, pleading for “coin” and begging to join him at Lincoln, which Leslie refused. (“I told him not… to come down here…I did not want him disgracing me by hanging around broke and unable to get in college…”) Besides, Leslie had problems of his own. (“This is a lonesome place sometimes, last night I walked around in the dark for about 2 hours…I do not sleep any too good. These boys [the college athletes he coached] “worry me nights as I am always dreaming about what they will and wont do… I gave my boys a very hard work out Sat.PM. They look real good for only about ten days coaching…”) See the next entry for Pollard’s follow-up letter detailing his coaching of the Lincoln college football and basketball teams. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247889