Show Pollard Wouldn't e Let Let Brown Coach V V Forget Him Long When a slender negro youth apI apt ap ap- ap- ap I t one of the at V Brown in the fall of 1915 1916 and asked IfIe if he Jie Ie might try tryout out with the squad the coach absent mindedly told him to get geta a uniform and promptly forgot him But Fred Pollard the modest candidate candi candi- date was not the kind to allow himself himself himself him him- self to be forgotten long In 1915 he developed into so eo promisIng promising promis promis- ing a back backfield field man that the coaches predicted that he would fill the shoes I of Earl Browns Brown's most brilliant bril bril- V star and Walter Camp gave him favorable mention on his American all-American teams teams' In 1916 Pollard c came came me into his own Against Yale he ran the ends and wiggled wig wig- V through the interference much muchas as though they had been tackling V dummies and hl hi his work against Harvard Harvard Haryard Har Har- vard yard was even more remarkable With his offensive ability he combines defensive strength of the highest class While Pollard I Isn't P playing football o dr r fe or attending classes he e operates a a. tailoring tail tail- oring establishment in tn Providence which he has had to enlace two or three times since he became the hero of his school LV |