Football

By johndinh31

  • Who picked up the first ball?

    William Ebb Ellis, was the first person noted for picking up the ball during the soccer game and running with it, thereby breaking and changing the rules.

  • 1st Collage Game

    Princeton and Rutgers universities met in New Brunswick, New York

  • when it started

    American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp

  • Walter Camp

    Walter Camp was an author, athletic director, chairman of the board of the New Haven Clock Company, and director of the Peck Brothers Company. He was general athletic director and head advisory football coach at Yale University

  • collage spread

    football started to spread rapidly across

  • First pro

    all-american guard william "pudge" heffelfinger was knows as the first professional football player

  • First Head black coach

    Fritz Pollard adds coach resposnabilty
    to his on-field duties, becoming the NFL's first black head coach.

  • AFL

    AFL In 1921, several more teams joined the league, increasing the membership to 22 teams.

  • NFL

    NFL was made

  • Racism

    Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, the NFL imposes a new de facto policy of total racial segregation. No more black athletes will play in the NFL until after World War II.

  • World war II

    During World War II, college football players enlisted in the armed forces. As most of these players had eligibility left on their college careers, some of them returned to college at West Point, bringing Army back to back national titles in 1944 and 1945

  • first african american to play

    the first afican american The Los Angeles Rams sign former UCLA stars Kenny Washington and Woody Strode, who will become the first African-Americans to play in the NFL, ending 13 years of whites-only football in the league.

  • SuperBowl I

    The NFL's Green Bay Packers easily defeat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl. More than 32,000 tickets go unsold for the game. The game had more televison viewer than any other sporting event.

  • AFC NFC

    The AFL and NFL merger takes full effect, therefore leaving the AFL completely out. The National Football Conference and The American Football Conference are formed

  • America's Team

    During the Cowboys' first game of the 1979 season vs the Cardinals, the television announcer introduced the Cowboys as America's Team and the name stuck with them because the won that game 22-21

  • big ten creation

    Seven mid-western universitie presidents including James H. Smart met at the palmer house in Chicago to establish the Intercollegiate Conferance of Faculty Representatives now called Big Ten Conferance.