With collegiate football at its height and professional football saggering, a blazing fast 25 year old from Chicago begins turning heads at the inaugural college Rose Bowl. Fritz Pollard becomes the first to cross the racial barrier of professional sports by entering the NFL in 1920. Fritz seizes the opportunity, playing halfback and later becomes the first black quarterback and coach of the NFL. At $1,500 a game, Fritz is the highest paid gate attraction in the league but after several seasons, Fritz decides to pursue a career in business, going on to produce and record the likes of Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole and launch the career of Paul Robeson. In the early 1930's, a handshake agreement among the league to ban blacks from playing football would bring Fritz out of retirement. Fritz forms his own team of all blacks, and that year they would go on to a record of 29-0 against existing NFL rosters.