don helmet and pads. This, from a man with matinee-idol features and a fragile-appearing 150-pounds over a 5-9 frame." Later years After graduating from Brown, Sprackling worked for a time as an assistant football coach at Brown. Brown played in the 1916 Rose Bowl game with star back Fritz Pollard. When the hotel in Pasadena refused to allow Pollard, one of the first African Americans to play in the NFL, Sprackling demanded to see the manager. According to an account published in Sports Illustrated: "When the clerk refused, Sprackling pounded on the desk bell and shouted, 'If there isn't a room for Fritz Pollard, none of us wants one.' The manager appeared, and Pollard got a room." Sprackling later had a career in business and became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. References 1890 births 1980 deaths Brown Bears football players All-American college football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees American football drop kickers American football quarterbacks