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Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey (February 14, 1917 – March 30, 2006) was an American professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1941 and the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1948. Hickey served as head coach for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers from 1959 to 1963.
Later that year, she came out as gay becoming the NFL's first openly LGBT coach and the first openly LGBT coach in U.S. men's professional sports. [39] [40] In 2020, the 49ers played in Super Bowl LIV making Sowers the first female and first openly gay coach in Super Bowl history. [41]
The Sporting News has given a pro football coach of the year award since 1947 and in 1949 gave its award to a non-NFL coach, Paul Brown of the All-America Football Conference's Cleveland Browns. Other NFL Coach of the Year awards are presented by Pro Football Weekly/Pro Football Writers of America and the Maxwell Football Club.
The next year in 1901, Yost was hired by Charles A. Baird as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football team. [74] Led by Yost, Michigan became the first "western" national power. From 1901 to 1905, Michigan had a 56-game undefeated streak that included a 1902 trip to play in the first college football bowl game , which later ...
[409] [410] Kevin Stefanski was named the NFL Coach of the Year, the first Browns head coach to win the award since Forrest Gregg in 1976. [411] On January 10, 2021, the Browns scored an NFL playoff record 28 first quarter points on their way to a 48–37 away victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Wild Card Round.
The AAFC merged with the NFL in 1950, and the AFL merged with the NFL in 1970. The history and records of the AFL were incorporated into the NFL. In the 105-year history of the NFL, there have been 531 head coaches, 27 of whom are currently active as head coaches. George Halas has the longest tenure of any NFL head coach, with a career spanning ...
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), the National Football League (NFL), and the American Football League (AFL).
The modern history of American football can be considered to have begun after the 1932 NFL Playoff Game, which was the first American football game to feature hash marks, the legalization of the forward pass anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and the movement of the goal posts back to the goal line; it was also the first indoor game since 1902.