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The 1920 APFA season was the inaugural season of the American Professional Football Association, renamed the National Football League in 1922.An agreement to form a league was made by four independent teams from Ohio on August 20, 1920, at Ralph Hay's office in Canton, Ohio, with plans to invite owners of more teams for a second meeting on September 17, 1920. [1]
A 7-game series between intramural teams from Stetson and Forbes occurred in 1894. The first intercollegiate game between official varsity teams was played on November 22, 1901. Stetson beat Florida Agricultural College at Lake City, one of the four forerunners of the University of Florida, 6–0, in a game played as part of the Jacksonville Fair.
1975 (NFL) – Super Bowl X – 1/18/76 AFC Pittsburgh Steelers 21, NFC Dallas Cowboys 17. 1976 (NFL) – Super Bowl XI – 1/09/77 AFC Oakland Raiders 32, NFC Minnesota Vikings 14. 1977 (NFL) – Super Bowl XII – 1/15/78 NFC Dallas Cowboys 27, AFC Denver Broncos 10. 1978 (NFL) – Super Bowl XIII – 1/21/79 AFC Pittsburgh Steelers 35, NFC ...
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
The National Football League (NFL) was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with ten teams from four states, all of whom existed in some form as participants of regional leagues in their respective territories. The league took on its current name in 1922. The NFL was the first professional football league to ...
The APFA did not keep records of the 1920 season; they declared the Akron Pros, who finished the season with an 8–0–3 (8 wins, 0 losses, 3 ties) record, as the league's first champions by a vote of the owners. The Canton Bulldogs won two straight championships from 1922 to 1923, and the Green Bay Packers won three in a row from 1929 to 1931 ...
The 1920 Canton Bulldogs season was the franchise's sixteenth and its first in the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which became the National Football League two years later. Jim Thorpe, the APFA's president, was Canton's coach and a back who played on the team. The Bulldogs entered the season coming off a 9–0–1 ...
1921. Comedy. A star of the college football team (Charles Ray) was forced to work as a milkman when his father's business begins to fail. Now considered a lost film. The Freshman. 1925. Comedy. Silent film with Harold Lloyd as a water boy who gets to play in team's big game. The Plastic Age.