{{Short description|Former boxer who competed for England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Use British English|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Dennis Pollard | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = 5 November 1934 | birth_place = Hendon, England | death_date = | death_place = | sport = Boxing | event = Light-heavyweight | club = Fitzroy Lodge ABC<br>Metropolitan Police }}
'''Dennis E. Pollard''' (born 1934), is a male former boxer who competed for England.
== Biography == A policeman by trade, he represented the Metropolitan Police and Fitzroy Lodge Amateur Boxing Club.
Pollard was part of the 1961 British team, which was labelled "the greatest win ever for a Great Britain team" after defeating the United States team ten bouts to nil.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boxingnewsonline.net/greatest-ever-win-for-the-british-amateur-team/ |title=On this day: The greatest ever win for the British amateur team |website=Boxing News |date=2 November 2021|access-date=24 October 2025}}</ref>
He represented the 1962 English team<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/43556|title=Athletes and results|publisher=Commonwealth Games Federation|access-date=30 July 2019|archive-date=30 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730233300/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/43556|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/perth-1962/athletes|title=1962 Athletes|publisher=Team England}}</ref> at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000525/19620818/008/0008 |title=Boxers for Empire Games |work=Staffordshire Sentinel |date=18 August 1962 |p=8 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=25 October 2025}}</ref> He competed in the light-heavyweight category,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/19/all |title=England Perth 1962 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |access-date=25 October 2025 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029122815/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3035/19/all |url-status=dead }}</ref> where he lost to Jojo Miles of Ghana in the quarter-final round.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/CommonwealthGames1962.html |title=Commonwealth Games - Perth, Australia - November 22 - December 1 1962 |website=Amateur Boxing |access-date=25 October 2025 }}</ref>
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