Award

• John Thompson III, the head coach of the men’s basketball team at Georgetown University, received the Fritz Pollard Award from the Black Coaches Association as the 2006 coach of the year. The award is cosponsored by Brown University, where Pollard starred as a running back in football in the early 1900s. He later became the first African American to play in the National Football League.

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