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American football teams in New York (state) (10 C, 15 P) American football teams in North Carolina (4 C, 18 P) American football teams in North Dakota (2 C, 1 P)
American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [23] 1927–1928; Western Interprovincial Football Union, 1936–1960 [24] United States Football League, 1945 (Never played) Trans-America Football League , 1945 (Never played) World Football League, 1974–1975
The oldest of the rating systems, the National Sports News Service, was begun by Arthur H. "Art" Johlfs—who originally started naming champions informally in 1927 as a 21 year old high school coach and official, [2] but did so more formally starting in 1959 [3] after enlarging his network of supporting hobbyists [2] to receive reports from six separate areas of the country. [4]
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.
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The 32-team National Football League (NFL) is currently the only major American football league in the United States. There have been numerous attempts over the past several decades to create a second major or high-level professional league, most of which failed within a few years or, in the cases of the All-America Football Conference and ...
The American Professional Football Association is formed on September 17, 1920, at Canton, Ohio, with Jim Thorpe elected president. [1] The fourteen teams were mainly drawn from the Ohio League, Chicago Circuit, New York Pro Football League and other teams from the lower midwest. A $100 membership fee was charged.
Alabama plays Texas in American football for the 2010 BCS National Championship. The Dallas Cowboys are one of the region's most popular NFL teams. American football is heavily considered the most popular team sport in most areas of the Southern United States.