July 10, 1998

Football player and Mayflower (Faulkner County) native Elijah Pitts died in Buffalo, New York. Pitts played at Philander Smith College in Little Rock (Pulaski County), and he went on to star for the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl. He was one of the early black stars of the National Football League (NFL) from the segregated South and had a long career as a player and a professional coach.

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