2006-12-02 11:51:18 · 4 answers · asked by dmitri b 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Like the American college football game from which it sprung, NFL football is a descendant of rugby football, which was imported to the United States from Canada in 1874, and then transformed into American college football after McGill University in Montreal invited Harvard University to Quebec to play a new Canadian version of "rugby football". Professional football in the United States dates at least to 1892, when an athletic club in Pittsburgh paid William "Pudge" Heffelfinger $500 to take part in a game. Over the next few decades, while most attention was paid to football at elite colleges on the East Coast, the professional game spread widely in the Midwest, particularly in Ohio where in 1903 the Massillon Tigers, a strong amateur team, hired four Pittsburgh pros to play in their season-ending game against Akron.
2006-12-02 11:54:08 · answer #1 · answered by epbr123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association (it adopted the name National Football League in 1922). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.
2006-12-02 19:55:17 · answer #2 · answered by sivracious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NFL was started in 1920
2006-12-02 19:55:47 · answer #3 · answered by Nich T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
akron ohio would be one of the first teams in existance in 1921.i believe there were 2 divisions with eight teams playing 10 games.the title would involve the two best teams in one in each division.bragging rights were the only real title they wanted then.some of the oldest teams playing today are the redskins,giants packers and bears.the teams would expand to 4 divisions by the mid 20's.teams by decade are,giants(20's)browns(30's)packers(40's)giants/colts(50's)packers/browns(60's)steelers(70's)49ers(80's)cowboys(90's)and patriots todate for the 2000's.
2006-12-02 20:12:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋