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Update: I received a facebook message from the College of Wooster Athletic Department concerning Charles Follis. They say "We don't have much on him as he was never actually enrolled here as a student, but did play baseball on the College's team for a brief period back when there weren't really...

Doing research on the Ohio League prior to 1920, I'm aware that the first African American to play Pro Football was Charles Follis who played for the Shelby Blues starting in 1902. But in 1901, while attending the College of Wooster (or Wooster University as it was then called ) he starred at varsit...

There is a similar story on the back dust jacket of the late Richard Whittingham's 1984 book What a Game They Played involving Knute Rockne playing against Thorpe, thinking Thorpe was washed up, and then Thope leveling him. I will see if I can dig out my copy. That's not really the same story, thou...

Hi all, I made it into the forum and this my first post. I'm hoping someone can help me a recall a story I believe I read it once online and I've spend hours trying to recover it and can't find it. As best I can recall, it took place in about 1920, the inaugural NFL (actually American Pro Football A...