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Football in the Chicago area was mostly amateur in the early 1900s, with opponents almost impossible to book, let alone find. This caused O'Brien to suspend the team from 1906 until 1913. By 1917, O'Brien was able to buy new uniforms as well as hire a coach, Marshall Smith. That year the Cardinals won the Chicago City Championship.
1946 was an important year in the history of professional football, as that was the year when the league reintegrated. The Los Angeles Rams signed two African American players, Kenny Washington and Woody Strode. Also that year, a competing league, the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), began operation. [171]
Stanford played its 1915, 1916, and 1917 "Big Games" as rugby union against Santa Clara and California's football "Big Game" in those years was against Washington, but both schools desired to restore the old traditions. [187] From 1920 to 1924, California's "Wonder Teams" went undefeated with three claimed national titles in a row.
Established September 17, 1920; 104 years ago () [1] [2] First season: 1920 Play in Soldier Field Chicago, Illinois Headquartered in Halas Hall Lake Forest, Illinois: League / conference affiliations; National Football League (1920–present) Western Division (1933–1949) National Conference (1950–1952) Western Conference (1953–1969)
The First Fifty Years, a 1969 book that chronicles the first half-century of the NFL, listed the 1933 NFL Championship game as the first of "Ten [Games] That Mattered." [23] The National Football League's first championship game was as good as it should have been," says the book. "There are great occasions and great games, but they rarely get ...
One month later on September 17, the league was renamed the American Professional Football Association, adding Buffalo and Rochester from the New York league, and Detroit, Hammond (a suburban Chicago squad), and several other teams from nearby circuits. The eleven founding teams initially struck an agreement over player poaching and the ...
Chicago Athletic Association building, prior to its renovation. The Chicago Athletic Association was a men's club and American football team, based in Chicago, Illinois. The club itself had been organized in 1890, and in 1892 it formed a football team. The team was built around veterans of Chicago's University Club football team. The team ...
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.