John Beverly Pollard

{{Short description|American football player, coach, and surgeon (1880–1960)}}

{{Infobox college football player

|name=John Beverly Pollard

|image=JohnPollard.jpg

|caption=Pollard c. 1903

|image_size=150px

|birth_date={{Birth date|1880|11|9}}

|birth_place=Aylett, Virginia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1960|10|2|1880|11|9}}

|death_place=Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.

|weight_lb=145

|currentposition=Quarterback

|class=Graduate

|school=Virginia Cavaliers

|pastschools=Virginia (1902–1905)

|highlights=

Southern championship (1902)
All-Southern (1902, 1903, 1904)

}}

John Beverly Pollard (November 9, 1880 – October 2, 1960) was an American college football player and coach and surgeon in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.

Early years

Pollard was born on November 9, 1880, in Aylett, Virginia, to E. S. Pollard, Esq.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9hKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70|page=70|title=Vignettes|year=1905|volume=1}}

University of Virginia

Pollard was an All-Southern quarterback for the Virginia Cavaliers of the University of Virginia,{{cite journal|title=District III|journal=Caduceus of Kappa Sigma|volume=19|year=1904|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwETAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA219|page=219}} and a member of the Virginia Glee Club.{{cite journal |title=Catalog of Students |journal=University of Virginia Annual Announcements, with a Catalog of the Officers and Students of the University of Virginia |date=1903–1904 | page=43}}{{cite book |title=Corks and Curls |year=1904 |page=132}} He also played on the baseball teams. At Virginia he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Pollard was known for his speed.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA97|page=97|journal=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide|title=Football in the South|year=1904}} He mentored the backup Oscar Randolph.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1807&dat=19051118&id=Lw0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3GkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1224,1421961|newspaper=The Cavalier Daily|date=November 18, 1905|title=Virginia? Carolina?}} He was once University Demonstrator of Anatomy. After university he became a captain and surgeon in the US Navy Medical Corps.

Coaching career

Pollard coached Virginia's baseball team in 1906.{{cite news |author= |title=Carolina Will Meet Virginia |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84867030/greensboro-daily-news/ |newspaper=Daily News |location=Greensboro, North Carolina |date=May 2, 1906 |page=7 |access-date=September 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He served as a co-head football coach at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina from 1906 to 1907.{{cite book|url=https://davidson.lyrasistechnology.org/islandora/object/davidson:6732#page/168/mode/1up|title=Quips and Cranks|year=1908|publisher=Davidson College|access-date=February 9, 2018}}