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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]
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 ...
Leatherheads is a 2008 American sports comedy film from Universal Pictures directed by and starring George Clooney. The film also stars Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Pryce, and John Krasinski and focuses on the early years of professional American football. The film was released on April 4, 2008. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed ...
The Ohio League and New York Pro Football League were two prominent regional associations in the 1910s (the NYPFL held an actual championship game in 1919). In 1920, teams from the Ohio League and New York Pro Football League, along with other midwestern teams, formalized into the American Professional Football Association (APFA), and the ...
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 ...
Frankford went on to win the game 20–14, due mainly to a touchdown pass from Hust Stockton to Two-Bits Homan. The Yellow Jackets then posted a 7–6 victory over the Detroit Panthers two days later. After a win over the Chicago Bears, the Yellow Jackets played a second two-game series against the Providence Steam Rollers.
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 ...
Knute Kenneth Rockne (/kəˈnuːt/ kə-NOOT, [3] though commonly pronounced / n u t / NOOT; [4] March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.