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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 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals, dies at 67 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 of the Los Angeles Rams and the 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 yards 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, Los Angeles Express beats Michigan 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 James Allen, born in Portland, Oregon, James Deshaune Allen, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League, attended Oregon State University, chosen 82nd overall in 2002 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints, now a free agent 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association forms, Canton, Ohio 1978 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach 1977 Shaun Alexander, born in Florence, Kentucky, football, running back, played college football at University of Alabama, drafted by Seattle Seahawks, placed 19th overall in 2000 National Football League Draft 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 University 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 1961 Ian Rush, born in St. Asaph, Wales, soccer player, footballer, striker, played with Liverpool FC, Welsh national football team 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 1954 Sammy McIlroy, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, soccer player, athlete, played for Manchester United, manages Morecambe Football Club, in Football League Two, the fourth division of English football 1954 Phil Neale, born in Scunthorpe, England, cricketer, coach, team manager, played for Worcestershire, played football for Lincoln City, Scunthorpe United, 1989 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1953 Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year 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 Clarence Ellis, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, football player, safety, played with National Football League's Atlanta Falcons, drafted in first round of 1972 NFL Draft 1950 Rich Glover, born in Bayonne, New Jersey, athlete, American football player, played in the NFL's New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles 1950 Barry Pearson, born in Geneseo, Illinois, born Barry Lynn Pearson, American professional football player, attended Northwestern University, played position of wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs 1949 Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster, Monday Night Football 1949 Joe Lavender, born in Rayville, Louisiana, football cornerback, played for National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins 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 1945 Bill Bergey, born in South Dayton, New York, American collegiate and professional football player, played for American Football League's Cincinnati Bengals and NFL Philadelphia Eagles 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 Joe Gibbs, born in Enka, North Carolina, football coach, owner, NASCAR Championship team, Pro Football Hall of Fame, coached Washington Redskins for 12 seasons, producing 8 playoff appearances, 4 NFC Championship titles, 3 Superbowl Titles 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 quarterback, 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 1928 Dave Bowen, born in Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales, Welsh football player, manager, captain, led country to win 1958 World Cup finals 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) 1924 Darrell Royal, born in Hollis, Oklahoma, football coach, in 20 years as head coach, University of Texas Longhorn never lost a season, elected to College Football Hall of Fame, 1983 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 Chicago 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 1914 Sammy Baugh, born in Texas, American football player, coach, inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame 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 1907 Ralph Marston, born in Malden, Massachusetts, Ralph Fulsom Marston, professional football player, played with National Football League's Boston Bulldogs, 1929 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 Michigan 7-6 1896 A. 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Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle 1895 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) 1895 1st pro football game (quarterback 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 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 |
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