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Learn how 14 pro football teams from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and New York formed the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920, which later became the NFL. The first season was...
In 1920, the American Professional Football Association (APFA) was founded, which two years later became the National Football League (NFL). The NFL started modestly but quickly began to overshadow college football in terms of popularity.
A look at the NFL's first decade, the 1920s: FRANCHISES: The first season, 1920, the American Professional Football Association had 14 teams, including two Tigers (Cleveland and Chicago).
Learn how college football became America's greatest sporting spectacle in the 1920s, with huge stadiums, radio broadcasts, movie theaters, and celebrity coaches. Explore the challenges of professionalism, regional rivalries, and bowl games in the golden age of the gridiron sport.
On August 20, 1920, seven men, including Jim Thorpe, met to organize a professional football league at the Jordan and Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio. The league, later renamed the...
While not front-page news in 1920, the league's formation was the start of a journey that has made the NFL this country's favorite sport. Pro football began in 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when former Yale star William "Pudge" Heffelfinger was paid a notable sum of $500 to play in a single game for the Allegheny Athletic Association on ...
The first league of professional football teams in the United States was established in 1920, with Jim Thorpe as its president. The league, later renamed the American Professional Football Association, had teams from four states and played a chaotic schedule with no championship.
The 1920s in America were known as the "Roaring Twenties." But for the National Football League, that 10-year period could be remembered more accurately as the "Tempestuous Twenties." A major problem with the early-day NFL was that its member teams were primarily situated in small cities which were unable to generate enough fan support to make ...
The first season, 1920, the American Professional Football Association had 14 teams, including two Tigers (Cleveland and Chicago). The Akron Pros, Decatur Staleys (later the Chicago Bears), Buffalo All-Americans, Chicago Cardinals, Rock Island Independents, Dayton Triangles, Rochester Jeffersons, Canton Bulldogs, Detroit Heralds, Hammond Pros ...
A look at the NFL’s first decade, the 1920s: FRANCHISES: The first season, 1920, the American Professional Football Association had 14 teams, including two Tigers (Cleveland and Chicago).