Brisco truly is criminally underrated. I’m so happy he made this list. What he did during that time was huge for America, and with one throw he changed the world. Thanks for putting him on the list.
I have another one for you (courtesy of one David Land): Maude Yagle, the first woman to win the Indianapolis 500 event as a car owner, all the way back in 1929!!
You should do a video on my alma mater Washington & Jefferson College, the smallest school to play in the Rose Bowl in 1922, featuring the first black quarterback to play a bowl game. The 11 man roster held Cal to a scoreless tie.
5:30 It was NPB, JBL was the pre-1950 league. Also its Nippon-Ham Fighters, not Nippon Ham-Fighters. As the famous quote goes: "They have no quarrel with Ham"
Actually the first black starting quarterback in the nfl was kind of Fritz Pollard but the forward pass wasn't a thing back then so he was basically a running back.
@@adambyrne1201 maybe, Pollard wasn't a QB he was. HB we Don't know if he ever 'started' a game at QB and many of his games were not in the NFL. but I hear ya👍
Moses Fleet Walker was also a really smart dude, an intellectual with a college education. This probably further alienated the typical player of that time - a rural, uneducated white guy with a probable drinking problem, also likely to be a first or second generation immigrant of Irish lineage. Truly and tragedy ahead of his time; while he’s been forgotten by the general public, at least any baseball historian worth 2 WAR knows his story
Last time I was this early I was early. Edit: Not trying to be a sexist, but Sarah Fuller was legit leading Heisman voting earlier. This ain't Make-A-Wish.
@@YourAverageDolphinsFan Pretty much this. If a woman played a full season as a kicker and put up amazing stats that outclassed her fellow peers, yet another kicker was selected for the Lou Groza award despite not being as good as the woman, then I can understand being irritated. Fuller was not necessarily stellar nor did she even play a full season.
Brisco didn't play Quarterback in the NFL. He played in 1968 and the merger wasn't until 1970. I'm kinda disappointed FPV, usually you get the details like these right
I still don't know how Jim caldwell isn't still coaching a team at this moment. He was showing some hope for the lions playoff chances and had a winning record the year they fired him.
Louis Sockalexis, arguably the first Native American to play pro baseball, played for the Cleveland Spiders. It's argued that their name change shortly thereafter to the Indians was because of him. He also had a cousin that was an Olympian I believe. He was a Penobscott, the tribe from where Stephen King grew up.
Wendell Scott was the first black driver to win a NASCAR race. He competed in the deep south during the 60s and 70s so you probably can't even imagine what he went through. His achievements, on and off the track, are worthy of much more attention than he's ever gotten.
It took NASCAR two years after the fact to recognize him as the winner of that race. He not only won that race, but was ahead of the second place driver by two laps. He died in 1990, but his family never got the trophy of the race he won until 2010 😢
Scott built and worked on his own cars too. And it's worth noting that the other drivers, even at the time, largely respected and appreciated what he was capable of doing.
Actually some people think that William Edward white (who's career predated Walker) Was the first black player and the only former slave to play in the MLB again he might have been white but he should at least be mentioned
I thought about Miguel Cobrera. I think he's from Puerto Rico. Playing with the Seattle Mariners and then heading to Detroit. Probably the most humble player and athelete.
This is one of my favorite videos you have done so far. it was very informative and definitely made me pause and think a little bit. I hope you do a part two at some point.
You forgot one also The female kicker for the New Mexico Lobos. Katharine Anne Hnida. She's probably the first female to score points for a D1 program.
Kenny Washington: First black player to sign an NFL contract in the modern era Sara Christian: First female NASCAR driver Wendell Scott: First black NASCAR driver to win a race Fritz Pollard: First black NFL head coach Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, Earl Lloyd, and Charles Cooper: First black NBA players (Cooper being the first black player drafted)
Let’s give a shoutout to the Loyola Chicago and Cincinnati men’s basketball teams of the early 1960s. They were first team to win a title with a majority black starting lineup. Loyola in 62 would have 5 black players on the court. Hell when Loyola and Mississippi State played each other it was known as the game of change
In the NHL a player named Larry Kwong, who is of Asian heritage, played in 1948 which makes him the first non-white NHL player by 10 years. Willie O'Ree gets the focus for breaking the color barrier in hockey in 1958, but Kwong is a name that is truly unknown.
First black QB to play in the NFL was Willie Thrower who went in at QB for the Chicago Bears. He was also the first black QB in the Big Ten for Michigan State. Even on the scale of forgotten trailblazers, Willie Thrower is doubly forgotten.
For what it's worth Bernie Curtis was the first black CFL quarterback in 1951. Despite being named an All-Star he converted to running-back the next season - eventually winning the league championship Grey Cup in 1953 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
I met marlin briscoe in an elevator hotel in Atlanta a couple days before he was giving a speech at the college football hall of fame, really cool and down to earth guy. And he let me wear his sb ring
It’s hard to convert a football (soccer) player into a football (American) player man or woman. I remember the Jets hired someone from team USA as a punter... and he wound up running away from the receiving team in terror!
Good 411, I remember M. Briscoe in DEN but didn't know he was on the 72 undefeated MIA squad. Thanks for clearing up the 2 previous female kickers before Vanderbilt this year. Fleet Walker MLB C Tulsa was inspiring as is Dirk Graham NHL CHI Blackhawks. Appreciate the research/fact finding.
Chuck Ealey of the CFL's Hamilton Ti-Cats was a victim of Racism from the NFL. The man was undefeated as a college QB playing for the University of Toledo. Never lost a college game in 4 years. Wasn't drafted. Ealey was told by NFL scouts that they would draft him if switched to defensive back. He told them no, if they wouldn't draft him as a QB, he wouldn't play for them. Came up to Canada and won a Grey Cup as a rookie QB. Ealey became a CFL Hall of Famer.
Reminiscent of Kathy Ireland in the movie "Necessary Roughness" as a soccer player turned college football kicker. (Yes, it was fiction, but a good movie.)
You make a video called forgotten trailblazers in sports but you forgot one also. The female kicker for the New Mexico Lobos. Katharine Anne Hnida. She's probably the first female to score points for a D1 program.
Pretty sad that it took Willie O'Ree nearly 40 years after he played in the NHL to get into the Hall-of-Fame. Glad he has been honoured and shown the respect he deserves.
Sarah Fuller: the power five are no better than any other school, ask UFC, BOISE STATE, BYU. TCU OH yeah let not forget app. state victory over Michigan in the big house
Gotta add Earl Lloyd (RIP) the first black player in the NBA. And Bill Russell was the NBA's first black head coach. While he was still playing I might add.
Fact that may surprise some people: the first black head coach in the NFL wasn't hired until 1989 (Art Shell), although he wasn't the first minority head coach. That was Tom Flores, and both of them were hired by Al Davis, who wasn't afraid to buck the trend. We had to wait until 1995 to see another black head coach on the sidelines. That was when the Eagles hired Ray Rhodes. Since then, the number of black head coaches has gone up, but as we keep seeing from time to time, plenty of qualified black coaches still don't get a fair consideration for the job, even with the Rooney Rule in place.
I knew who Isreael Bissel was. When I brought him up in class, the teacher glared at me like I had grown another head. And that was back in the day when you had to use the Dewey Decimal System and Microfiche to find things out. Yeah, I'm old ..
Actually the first black starting quarterback in nfl was kind of Fritz Pollard but the forward pass wasn't a thing back then so he was basically a running back
I'm just happy we get to learn about those who deserved it
I freaking love this guy. He makes me feel so smart.
Feelings can be wrong. Lol. Jk
@@ImGoingSupersonic Haahahah lol
Idk if that is calling him stupid or saying he is a good teacher lol.
Mother of all backhanded compliments
I played for the Braves when I was five years old. That's gotta be worth something.
First
the first time i saw people joking about this in the comments of your videos, i actually believed it for a second 😂
For sure Foolish
Little league doesn't count
This is true
Brisco truly is criminally underrated. I’m so happy he made this list. What he did during that time was huge for America, and with one throw he changed the world. Thanks for putting him on the list.
Sarah Fuller, enters the NFL draft gets selected wins sits on the bench and wins 20 mvps
She’s better than Dan Bailey 😂
Her and Cody Parkey should have a kick off
She’ll probably get drafted by the pats
Wouldn’t be surprised if they made her a HOF in her first game
@@sadcowboysfan8864 Honestly she’d fairly go to the hall of fame for making history, Kendall Hinton is already in it
FivePoints remains a trailblazer for Bald males everywhere.
Bald. Bald. Bald.
I'm bald too. And damn proud of it!
Bald for 16 years! Bring it!
He's bald? I thought he was just doing that for his manscaped ad campaign.
I have another one for you (courtesy of one David Land): Maude Yagle, the first woman to win the Indianapolis 500 event as a car owner, all the way back in 1929!!
You should do a video on my alma mater Washington & Jefferson College, the smallest school to play in the Rose Bowl in 1922, featuring the first black quarterback to play a bowl game. The 11 man roster held Cal to a scoreless tie.
5pointsvids aren't just only funny but also really informative when I'm comes to sports.
Remember when Carli Loyd almost got signed by the Bears to be a Kicker? Would have been a much bigger deal than Fuller
5:30
It was NPB, JBL was the pre-1950 league.
Also its Nippon-Ham Fighters, not Nippon Ham-Fighters. As the famous quote goes: "They have no quarrel with Ham"
Splitting hairs here, James Harris was the NFL's 1st starting black QB Marlon Briscoe was the AFLs 1st starting black QB
Actually the first black starting quarterback in the nfl was kind of Fritz Pollard but the forward pass wasn't a thing back then so he was basically a running back.
@@adambyrne1201 maybe, Pollard wasn't a QB he was. HB we Don't know if he ever 'started' a game at QB and many of his games were not in the NFL. but I hear ya👍
P/s love your knowledge of the game
@@adambyrne1201 Pollard was also the NFL's first black coach, or do i remember wrongly? I think je was a player-coach.
@@elephantyarn7378 yes he was, I think he player coached in the mid 1920s then came back as just a coach in the early 30s
Moses Fleet Walker was also a really smart dude, an intellectual with a college education. This probably further alienated the typical player of that time - a rural, uneducated white guy with a probable drinking problem, also likely to be a first or second generation immigrant of Irish lineage.
Truly and tragedy ahead of his time; while he’s been forgotten by the general public, at least any baseball historian worth 2 WAR knows his story
There is an episode of the Dollop about Walker. It's such a troubling but fascinating story.
Last time I was this early I was early.
Edit: Not trying to be a sexist, but Sarah Fuller was legit leading Heisman voting earlier. This ain't Make-A-Wish.
Wow let’s hate on someone cause they’re a girl🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@YourAverageDolphinsFan Pretty much this. If a woman played a full season as a kicker and put up amazing stats that outclassed her fellow peers, yet another kicker was selected for the Lou Groza award despite not being as good as the woman, then I can understand being irritated. Fuller was not necessarily stellar nor did she even play a full season.
@@machoboys8884 she made what like 2 kicks and did like 3 kickoffs
@@machoboys8884 he aint Haiting cause shes a girl he just saying she should never been in any award nomination
It’s all about the us pander express
There was a kicker at new Mexico in the early 2000s too. Played in a bowl game and scored
The day is always better when a Five Points video is uploaded!
First female kicker to ever play in NFL: Kareem Hunt
If you know, you know
Doubt he was the first. The NFL has had a lot of pieces of shits.
Lol
@@ImNeverOriginal Yep. Ray Rice had a chance to be a good boxer or mma fighter. Missed opportunity. Many others but I agree
Dam son
I'm kinda getting hooked on this channel. Probably the best sports channel on UA-cam.
Brisco didn't play Quarterback in the NFL. He played in 1968 and the merger wasn't until 1970. I'm kinda disappointed FPV, usually you get the details like these right
I still don't know how Jim caldwell isn't still coaching a team at this moment. He was showing some hope for the lions playoff chances and had a winning record the year they fired him.
You mean Jim Caldwell?
@@DepravedCoTApologist yep yep I did. I always forget his name and to me he looks more like a Steve wilks than Steve wilks
You are spot on. And it’s painful as Lions fan to see that shake out.
I honestly had no idea that Dirk Graham was a POC. I’ll never forget the hat trick in game 4 of the 1992 SCF.
I thought Katie Hnadi was the 1st female kicker play CFB. I remember she played at CU and New Mexico
Kate Hnida was the first female D-1 kicker.
Louis Sockalexis, arguably the first Native American to play pro baseball, played for the Cleveland Spiders. It's argued that their name change shortly thereafter to the Indians was because of him. He also had a cousin that was an Olympian I believe. He was a Penobscott, the tribe from where Stephen King grew up.
Wendell Scott was the first black driver to win a NASCAR race. He competed in the deep south during the 60s and 70s so you probably can't even imagine what he went through. His achievements, on and off the track, are worthy of much more attention than he's ever gotten.
It took NASCAR two years after the fact to recognize him as the winner of that race. He not only won that race, but was ahead of the second place driver by two laps. He died in 1990, but his family never got the trophy of the race he won until 2010 😢
Scott built and worked on his own cars too. And it's worth noting that the other drivers, even at the time, largely respected and appreciated what he was capable of doing.
@@pepperjackttv What a shame
I really like hearing “...and you made it to the end of this video” best.
Always draft Mirakami in OOTP, more often than not he becomes a HoF reliever
Another thing about Moses Fleetwood Walker was that his brother Weldy was the 2nd Black Major League player
Actually some people think that William Edward white (who's career predated Walker) Was the first black player and the only former slave to play in the MLB again he might have been white but he should at least be mentioned
A very cool informative video with a nice little message at the end.
Awesome stuff Five Points. Good shit
Damn Toledo, about time you did something right.
I'm from there so yeah
I thought about Miguel Cobrera. I think he's from Puerto Rico. Playing with the Seattle Mariners and then heading to Detroit. Probably the most humble player and athelete.
1st manchild to become NFL head coach: Adam Gase
Lol 😂
This is one of my favorite videos you have done so far. it was very informative and definitely made me pause and think a little bit. I hope you do a part two at some point.
You forgot one also The female kicker for the New Mexico Lobos. Katharine Anne Hnida. She's probably the first female to score points for a D1 program.
Kenny Washington: First black player to sign an NFL contract in the modern era
Sara Christian: First female NASCAR driver
Wendell Scott: First black NASCAR driver to win a race
Fritz Pollard: First black NFL head coach
Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, Earl Lloyd, and Charles Cooper: First black NBA players (Cooper being the first black player drafted)
So Marlin Briscoe having a drug problem didn’t have anything to do with him getting the start
0:15 Arab Countries: Yeah, neither have I
Thank you for reminding us of Marlin the Magician. I met Duriel Harris, a Dolphins receiver in the 1980s & he seemed not to know who he was.
What you said it at the end about sports brought a tear to my Wicked soul
Let’s give a shoutout to the Loyola Chicago and Cincinnati men’s basketball teams of the early 1960s. They were first team to win a title with a majority black starting lineup. Loyola in 62 would have 5 black players on the court. Hell when Loyola and Mississippi State played each other it was known as the game of change
I thought UTEP was the 1st team with black players to win a championship
@@mercnsiku15 Nope they were the first with an all black starting lineup. I think the Cincy and Loyola teams were more important
honestly surprised the first black qb was on the broncos 😂
Don't forget: Baker Mayfield was the first Browns QB to win a playoff game this millennium!
In the NHL a player named Larry Kwong, who is of Asian heritage, played in 1948 which makes him the first non-white NHL player by 10 years. Willie O'Ree gets the focus for breaking the color barrier in hockey in 1958, but Kwong is a name that is truly unknown.
Wow I didn't know that.
Very well said, sir! It is a reminder that the history we see easily is not the full story.
Trailblazers? I thought you meant the Portland Trailblazers tbh.
What a great group of humans so proud of all of them!
First black QB to play in the NFL was Willie Thrower who went in at QB for the Chicago Bears. He was also the first black QB in the Big Ten for Michigan State.
Even on the scale of forgotten trailblazers, Willie Thrower is doubly forgotten.
Okay, technically they're Power 5, but it's Vanderbilt, can we really count them as Power 5?
And she scored on Tennessee. So does that really count
First black MLB manager - Ernie Banks 1973. Regular Cubs manager got kicked out, Banks was a bench coach, managed the rest of the game (and won).
Will-AH-mette University.
It's in Oregon, not Illinois.
Damn Easterners
Ah, Shitty expensive school in the city I live in....
Thank you.
Israel Bissell 0:01 American badass
Liz Houston 1:26 NCAA Football
Marlin Briscoe 2:20 NFL
Masanori Murakami 3:58 MLB
Dirk Graham 7:01 NHL
Moses Fleet Walker 7:55 MLB
Don’t think we didn’t see that hello fresh box start to fall. It was hilarious tho 😂
Tom Flores. Technically the first minority quarterback and coach to win a Super Bowl (he's Hispanic).
Great vid. Thank you for sharing!
For what it's worth Bernie Curtis was the first black CFL quarterback in 1951. Despite being named an All-Star he converted to running-back the next season - eventually winning the league championship Grey Cup in 1953 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
I met marlin briscoe in an elevator hotel in Atlanta a couple days before he was giving a speech at the college football hall of fame, really cool and down to earth guy. And he let me wear his sb ring
It’s hard to convert a football (soccer) player into a football (American) player man or woman. I remember the Jets hired someone from team USA as a punter... and he wound up running away from the receiving team in terror!
Kinda like sarah did ? Just joking not hating 😂😂 but its true
Yeah that Janikowski dude was trash. And that Anderson guy. And that Tucker man.
Good 411, I remember M. Briscoe in DEN but didn't know he was on the 72 undefeated MIA squad. Thanks for clearing up the 2 previous female kickers before Vanderbilt this year. Fleet Walker MLB C Tulsa was inspiring as is Dirk Graham NHL CHI Blackhawks. Appreciate the research/fact finding.
Chuck Ealey of the CFL's Hamilton Ti-Cats was a victim of Racism from the NFL. The man was undefeated as a college QB playing for the University of Toledo. Never lost a college game in 4 years. Wasn't drafted. Ealey was told by NFL scouts that they would draft him if switched to defensive back. He told them no, if they wouldn't draft him as a QB, he wouldn't play for them. Came up to Canada and won a Grey Cup as a rookie QB. Ealey became a CFL Hall of Famer.
Reminiscent of Kathy Ireland in the movie "Necessary Roughness" as a soccer player turned college football kicker. (Yes, it was fiction, but a good movie.)
You make a video called forgotten trailblazers in sports but you forgot one also. The female kicker for the New Mexico Lobos. Katharine Anne Hnida. She's probably the first female to score points for a D1 program.
yooooo my mom went to college with the liz person kinda cool she's getting some recignition
Dirk Graham was one of my favourite players growing up
Pretty sad that it took Willie O'Ree nearly 40 years after he played in the NHL to get into the Hall-of-Fame. Glad he has been honoured and shown the respect he deserves.
Me: Glad to see diversity in sports around the world
Also me: Fails to see the lack of diversity in sports in my own nation
No Marion Motley? He broke the color barrier before Jackie Robinson and is barely known.
Love playing the race card don't ya.
Wow, FPV deserves a lot of credit for bringing some of these players to light.
Sarah Fuller: the power five are no better than any other school, ask UFC, BOISE STATE, BYU. TCU OH yeah let not forget app. state victory over Michigan in the big house
Gotta add Earl Lloyd (RIP) the first black player in the NBA. And Bill Russell was the NBA's first black head coach. While he was still playing I might add.
Good job on the video
I honestly appreciate it
Fact that may surprise some people: the first black head coach in the NFL wasn't hired until 1989 (Art Shell), although he wasn't the first minority head coach. That was Tom Flores, and both of them were hired by Al Davis, who wasn't afraid to buck the trend.
We had to wait until 1995 to see another black head coach on the sidelines. That was when the Eagles hired Ray Rhodes. Since then, the number of black head coaches has gone up, but as we keep seeing from time to time, plenty of qualified black coaches still don't get a fair consideration for the job, even with the Rooney Rule in place.
Amen and thank you!💖✌🏾✊🏾🇺🇸👍🏾
I knew who Isreael Bissel was. When I brought him up in class, the teacher glared at me like I had grown another head. And that was back in the day when you had to use the Dewey Decimal System and Microfiche to find things out. Yeah, I'm old ..
Fivepoints is the 🐐🐐🐐 of UA-cam
I don't have a joke or a clever comment. I just want to say this is a great, important video. Maybe the best you've done. Well done.
Lou Saban? WAIT
Willamette rhymes with dammit!
Go Bearcats!
Jim Thorpe. Carlisle Indians. Oorang Indians. Hominy Indians vs New York Giants 1927. Moses Yellowhorse. 🤙
Five points your vids are epic. Keep it coming.🍺🇺🇸
F*ck racism....I agree😀
Hi five points.
Fleetwood Walker famously said “my skin is against me”
Super informative stuff, cool stuff to learn
This is way overappreciated, Sarah virtually did nothing. The proverbial "tempest in a teapot"!
Forget the NFL, the CFL had black QB's in the 50's and 60's.
Thank you for this video. Consider me educated! 👍🏼👍🏼
Your channel is so underrated
Will-AM-met, I'm so sorry lol
Actually the first black starting quarterback in nfl was kind of Fritz Pollard but the forward pass wasn't a thing back then so he was basically a running back
Tom Flores should be here since he was the first non white head coach in the NFL
Thanks for the history lesson!😊😊
That 2nd pic of Briscoe looks VERY much like a 60's Cam Newton
First black head coach: Fritz Pollard for the Akron Pros in 1920
with the last one, its weird how kinda formal it is the richmond letter is. still not cool that it happened of course. screw racism
Marlin Briscoe actually died yesterday from pneumonia. He was 76.
Rest in peace to a trailblazer.
I learned something new today
You Play To Win the Game
Great video Very insightful
I love baseball and history :D
Thanks for the bday vid bald man.