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He was part owner of the Chicago Bears football team with George Halas, and from 1917 to 1931, Maypole served on the Chicago City Council and was a Democrat. Then from 1931 to 1943, Maypole served in the Illinois State Senate and was president pro tempore of the senate.
Albert Louis "Al" Lipscomb (15 June 1925 – 18 June 2011) was a seven-term Dallas City Council member and a longtime advocate for civil rights.He was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit in the 1970s that successfully challenged Dallas' system of electing every council member citywide, forcing the city to change to a mostly single-member district system.
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 ...
marks 40 years since Chicago Bears founder, owner, coach and player George Halas died. Just a child then, I now have questions about his remarkable life. What were the key moments that shaped his ...
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.
By 1873, the college students playing football had made significant efforts to standardize their fledgling game. Teams had been scaled down from 25 players to 20. The only way to score was still to bat or kick the ball through the opposing team's goal, and the game was played in two 45 minute halves on fields 140 yards long and 70 yards wide.
Alshinard Harris (born December 7, 1974) is an American professional football coach and former player who is the defensive pass-game coordinator and defensive backs coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Harris played as a cornerback for 14 seasons in the NFL from 1998 to 2011.
In April 1911, Rodriguez was the Socialist candidate for Mayor of Chicago. In this race he garnered slightly less than 25,000 votes, trailing the major party candidates by over 135,000 each. [5] Rodriguez moved into the 15th Ward of Chicago, located in the city's northwest, and ran for Chicago City Council in 1914.