Walter Jean, player and Assistant Coach with the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels

ID: 873 ~ Source: Green Bay Press Gazette (21 August 1926) in "Who was Packers' first African-American player?" at Packers.com. https://www.packers.com/news/who-was-packers-first-african-american-player-16759587 ~ Date: 1926
This file appears in: Jim Thorpe and the Shoe-Steels: Portsmouth, Ohio's First Professional Football Team

Walter Jean was recruited by Jack Creasy from the Green Bay Packers to play on the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels in 1927. Jean became the Assistant Coach to Jim Thorpe and in the final, postseason game of the season, against the Ashland Armcos, Jean served as Head Coach, in Thorpe's place. When the team was re-organized in 1928, Walter Jean became the first coach of the Portsmouth Spartans.

This file appears in: Jim Thorpe and the Shoe-Steels: Portsmouth, Ohio's First Professional Football Team