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The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship Game. The 1955 and 1960 NFL championship games were played on Monday afternoons, Christmas having fallen on a Sunday in those years.
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
1920, 1926–1929 Chicago Cardinals: 1920–1925 Halfback: Harold “Red” Grange: Chicago Bears: 1925, 1929–1934: 1963 New York Yankees (AFL) 1926 New York Yankees: 1927 Joe Guyon: Canton Bulldogs: 1919–1920: 1966 Cleveland Indians: 1921 Oorang Indians: 1922–1923 Rock Island Independents: 1924 Kansas City Cowboys: 1924–1925 New York ...
The success of the playoff game led the NFL to institute a championship game. In the first NFL Championship, the Bears played against the New York Giants, defeating them 23–21. The teams met again in the 1934 NFL Championship where the Giants, wearing sneakers [34] defeated the Bears 30–13 on a cold, icy day at the Polo Grounds.
0–9. 1932 NFL Playoff Game; 1933 NFL Championship Game; 1934 NFL Championship Game; 1935 NFL Championship Game; 1936 NFL Championship Game; 1937 NFL Championship Game
National Football League (1920–1925) American Football League (1926) Team history: Rock Island Independents (1907–1926) Team colors: Green and white Head coaches: Dick Liitt (1912–1913) Joseph Smith (1914) Walter Flanigan (1915–1916, 1918) Ted Guyer (1917) Rube Ursella (1919–1920, 1925) John Roche (1919) Frank Coughlin (1921)
NFL champions: "indicate the number of times that team won the NFL Champion...". "won the NFL championship" sounds like what you're looking for. Fixed. Toa Nidhiki05 01:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC) "as of the of the championship game." Fixed. Toa Nidhiki05 01:11, 30 January 2013 (UTC) We have articles for the championship games, I believe.