Post by Coach Campbell on Feb 28, 2009 20:39:20 GMT
Football
2004 Reggie White, football player, dies at 43
2004 Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, dies at 27
2002 Roone Arledge, TV innovator, crated NFL Monday Night Football, dies at 71
2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37
1999 Walter Payton, football great, dies at 45
1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1996 Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
1996 Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77
1995 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1995 Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1993 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1992 Professional Spring Football League begins
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations
1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 Big East Football conference forms
1991 Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
1990 George Allen, U.S. football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, U.S. football coach
1988 New York Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles)
1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1986 Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1986 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-New York Jets football game
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, U.S. football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1986 Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1985 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1985 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground
1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1984 Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1983 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1983 U.S. Football League begins its 1st season
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, U.S. football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1983 U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft
1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1982 Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 U.S. Football League forms
1982 Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach
1981 Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio
1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
1976 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1975 World Football League disbands
1975 World Football League folds
1974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 World Football League plays 1st games
1974 World Football League founded
1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1973 Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1971 New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
1970 Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington D.C. at 57
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1969 Todd Lyght, U.S. football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams
1969 Bucky Richardson, U.S. football quarterback for the Houston Oilers
1968 U.S. Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102
1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
1964 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1963 Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio
1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1962 Bo Jackson, baseball/football player, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1959 Tony Eason, football quarterback for the New England Patriots
1959 Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball and football star
1958 Carlos Carson, football player
1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1958 Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
1957 Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team
1956 Canadian Football Council forms
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1954 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1952 Mike Varty, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, American football linebacker for the National Football League
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia (CBS)
1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1950 Rich Glover, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, athlete, American football player, played in the NFL's New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles
1949 Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1947 Dough Wilkerson, football
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1945 Al Michaels, Brooklyn, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders
1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa
1943 Lawrence Elkins, football player Florida for the Houston Oilers
1941 Football Writers Association of America organized
1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City)
1938 Don Meredith, born in Mount Vernon, Texas, NFL QB, Cowboys, and Monday Night Football
1937 Barry Switzer, football coach, Oklahoma
1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1937 William Cannon, football player, Heisman-1959
1937 Tom Osborne, college football coach
1937 Lou Holtz, U.S., football coach, New Jersey Jets
1935 John David Crow, football player, Heisman Trophy 1957
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman
1932 Peter John Swales, football club chairman
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 Dick Nolan, football coach
1931 Alex Webster, football coach for the New York Giants
1931 Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1930 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St. John's Rugby, 7-3
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1928 Keith Jackson, Carrolton, Georgia, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Football
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1925 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1924 Joe Paterno, football coach, Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986
1924 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record)
1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1923 O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach, Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints
1923 John McKay, West Virginia, football coach, USC, Tampa Bay, 5 time Rose Bowl champ
1923 Jack Hayward, British financier, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club
1923 Ara Parseghian, football coach, Northwestern, Notre Dame
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1922 George Allen, football coach, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins
1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1920 Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1920 American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1919 Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach, Grambling
1918 Howard Cosell, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach, Oklahoma
1916 1st football game in Rose Bowl, Washington State vs. Brown
1915 Helmut Schoen, football coach
1913 Paul "Bear" Bryant, U.S. football coach, Alabama Crimson Tide
1913 Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach, Ohio, 1968 coach of yr
1912 Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
1908 Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach, Notre Dame
1908 Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star, Yale
1907 English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball
1906 Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1904 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team)
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1903 Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football, Illinois Bears
1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (MSG, New York City)
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1900 Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball and football Hall of Famer
1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1898 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1897 Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965
1897 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
1896 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michgan 7-6
1896 A. A. Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0)
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star, Notre Dame
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960
1892 N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa)
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1890 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer, Canton Bulldogs
1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1888 English Football League established
1888 Knute Rockne, Norwegian/U.S. football player and coach, Notre Dame
1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
1885 Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1876 Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers
1873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to University of Toronto
1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1869 John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1868 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian Football game
1866 Australian Rules Football is created
1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy
1861 1st documented Canadian football game (at University of Toronto)
1859 Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale
2004 Reggie White, football player, dies at 43
2004 Pat Tillman, soldier/pro football player, dies at 27
2002 Roone Arledge, TV innovator, crated NFL Monday Night Football, dies at 71
2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37
1999 Walter Payton, football great, dies at 45
1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1996 Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
1996 Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77
1995 Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1995 Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1994 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
1993 Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1992 Professional Spring Football League begins
1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
1991 Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations
1991 NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 Big East Football conference forms
1991 Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
1990 George Allen, U.S. football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, U.S. football coach
1988 New York Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles)
1988 Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1986 Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1986 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-New York Jets football game
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, U.S. football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1986 Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1985 On Mon Night football, Jets retire Joe Namath's #12, beat Miami 23-7
1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1985 40 die and 150 injured in fire at Bradford City football ground
1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1984 Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
1983 Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1983 U.S. Football League begins its 1st season
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, U.S. football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983 NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1983 U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft
1983 Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1982 Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Illinois 31-6
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 U.S. Football League forms
1982 Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach
1981 Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1981 Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship
1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio
1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
1976 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1975 World Football League disbands
1975 World Football League folds
1974 1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
1974 World Football League plays 1st games
1974 World Football League founded
1973 World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1973 Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 Frank Leahy, football coach (Notre Dame), dies at 64
1971 New York Giant football team announces they're leaving Bronx for New Jersey in 1975
1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
1970 Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington D.C. at 57
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1970 NFL selects Wilson as official football and scoreboard as official time
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1969 Todd Lyght, U.S. football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams
1969 Bucky Richardson, U.S. football quarterback for the Houston Oilers
1968 U.S. Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102
1965 Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting
1964 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1963 Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio
1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1962 Bo Jackson, baseball/football player, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1959 Tony Eason, football quarterback for the New England Patriots
1959 Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball and football star
1958 Carlos Carson, football player
1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1958 Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
1958 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash
1958 Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League
1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
1957 Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team
1956 Canadian Football Council forms
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1954 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1952 Mike Varty, born in Detroit, Michigan, athlete, American football linebacker for the National Football League
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia (CBS)
1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1950 Rich Glover, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, athlete, American football player, played in the NFL's New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles
1949 Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1947 Dough Wilkerson, football
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1945 Al Michaels, Brooklyn, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders
1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa
1943 Lawrence Elkins, football player Florida for the Houston Oilers
1941 Football Writers Association of America organized
1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City)
1938 Don Meredith, born in Mount Vernon, Texas, NFL QB, Cowboys, and Monday Night Football
1937 Barry Switzer, football coach, Oklahoma
1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1937 William Cannon, football player, Heisman-1959
1937 Tom Osborne, college football coach
1937 Lou Holtz, U.S., football coach, New Jersey Jets
1935 John David Crow, football player, Heisman Trophy 1957
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman
1932 Peter John Swales, football club chairman
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 Dick Nolan, football coach
1931 Alex Webster, football coach for the New York Giants
1931 Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1930 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St. John's Rugby, 7-3
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1928 Keith Jackson, Carrolton, Georgia, sportscaster, ABC Monday Night Football
1928 Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina and Winnipeg
1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1925 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000
1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1924 Joe Paterno, football coach, Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986
1924 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record)
1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)
1923 O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach, Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints
1923 John McKay, West Virginia, football coach, USC, Tampa Bay, 5 time Rose Bowl champ
1923 Jack Hayward, British financier, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club
1923 Ara Parseghian, football coach, Northwestern, Notre Dame
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1922 George Allen, football coach, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins
1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1920 Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1920 American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1919 Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach, Grambling
1918 Howard Cosell, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
1916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
1916 Bud Wilkinson, college football coach, Oklahoma
1916 1st football game in Rose Bowl, Washington State vs. Brown
1915 Helmut Schoen, football coach
1913 Paul "Bear" Bryant, U.S. football coach, Alabama Crimson Tide
1913 Woody Hayes, [Wayne], college football coach, Ohio, 1968 coach of yr
1912 Cissie Elizabeth Charlton, football matriarch
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
1908 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
1908 Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
1908 Frank Leahy, O'Neill Nebraska, football coach, Notre Dame
1908 Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star, Yale
1907 English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball
1906 Football rules committee legalizes forward pass
1904 1st stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1904 Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1904 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team)
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1903 Harold "Red" Grange, "Galloping Ghost" of football, Illinois Bears
1902 1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Philadelphia 6-0 (MSG, New York City)
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1900 Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball and football Hall of Famer
1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1898 1st Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
1898 Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1897 Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965
1897 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0
1896 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michgan 7-6
1896 A. A. Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle
1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)
1895 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0)
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp, football star, Notre Dame
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1893 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1960
1892 N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa)
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1890 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer, Canton Bulldogs
1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1888 English Football League established
1888 Knute Rockne, Norwegian/U.S. football player and coach, Notre Dame
1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
1885 Montreal and Britannia Football Clubs (QRFU) defeat Ontario Combined Team (ORFU) 3-0 in CRFU Championship game
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1876 Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football
1875 Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1875 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
1874 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montreal) in football, 3-0
1873 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
1873 1st football game between Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tigers
1873 Columbia Princeton Rutgers and Yale set rules for collegiate football
1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club 1st game losing to University of Toronto
1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1869 John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake
1868 1st written account of a Canadian football game
1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian Football game
1866 Australian Rules Football is created
1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy
1861 1st documented Canadian football game (at University of Toronto)
1859 Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale