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The 2015 Chicago Bears season was the franchise's 96th season in the National Football League (NFL). After the firing of general manager Phil Emery and head coach Marc Trestman following the 2014 season, the team hired former New Orleans Saints director of player personnel Ryan Pace and Denver Broncos head coach John Fox to fill those positions, respectively.
The first American football game was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time. A set of rule changes drawn up from 1880 onward by Walter Camp , the "Father of American Football", established the snap , the line of scrimmage , eleven-player teams, and the ...
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Portal:American football/Selected article/3 The Birmingham Americans were a professional American football team located in Birmingham, Alabama. They were members of the four-team Central Division of the World Football League (WFL). The Americans, founded in late December 1973, played in the upstart league's inaugural season in 1974.
Rugby, like American football, is a sport in which two competing teams vie for control of a ball, which can be kicked through a set of goalposts or run into the opponent's goal area to score points. [11] What is considered to be the first American football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton, two college teams ...
Image:Fhyost.jpg Fielding Harris Yost (April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football collegiate head coach and university athletic director, best known for having coached the University of Michigan Wolverines for 25 years, during which time his teams won four National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I consensus [disambiguation needed] national championships, maintained ...
The run-and-shoot is an American football offensive scheme devised by Glenn Ellison for use on the secondary school level at Middletown High School in the eponymous Ohioan city, popularized on the collegiate level by University of Houston Cougars head coach Jack Pardee in the 1987, and ultimately introduced on the professional level in the Canadian Football League—in 1982 with the Toronto ...
Pages in category "American football" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Portal:American football This page was last ...