What was the name of the first Philadelphia football team, and when was it founded?

Answer 1

a whole lot of wrong info on this question.

one person said the jets in 1852, and as far as i know there has never been a team called the jets in philadelphia, and more importantly football (american) hadn't even been invented in 1852.

another person said the athletics, and while it is true that there was a team called the athletics, they were a baseball team.

the first team was the philadelphia football club, established in 1901.

Answer 2

The Philadelphia Athletics was founded in 1902 by Connie Mack. The team won the first night football game on November 21, 1902. They won 39-0 over Kanaweola AC at Elmira, NY. Both the Athletics and Pittsburgh claimed the championship title for that year, and the issue was never resolved.

Answer 3

Football

Philadelphia has been the home of two National Football League teams, one Arena Football League team, one World Football League team, and one USFL league team.

[edit] Frankford Yellow Jackets

Main article: Frankford Yellow Jackets

The city's first NFL team was the Frankford Yellow Jackets. Originally a community athletic-association team in the Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia dating back to about 1900, the club became one of the early NFL clubs in 1924. The Yellow Jackets won the NFL championship in 1926. Its home field was Frankford Stadium (also called Yellow Jacket Field). The club disbanded in the 1931 season.

[edit] Eagles

Main article: Philadelphia Eagles

Two years after the Yellow Jackets folded, Bert Bell and Lud Wray bought the franchise rights and formed a new team, the Philadelphia Eagles.

[edit] Soul

Main article: Philadelphia Soul

The Philadelphia Soul is currently a member of the Arena Football League and began their existence in 2004. They currently play in the both the Wachovia Spectrum and Wachovia Center, depending on the schedule.

[edit] Bell

The Philadelphia Bell was a franchise of the World Football League, which operated in 1974 and for a portion of a season in 1975. It played its home games in JFK Stadium.

[edit] Stars

The Philadelphia Stars (football) were a football team in the USFL in 1983-84, after which they became the Baltimore Stars for their final season in 1985.

[edit] Ice hockey

[edit] Quakers

The Philadelphia Quakers were a National Hockey League team that played only one full season, 1930-31, at the Philadelphia Arena. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

[edit] Flyers

Main article: Philadelphia Flyers

Answer 4

The philadelphia football club. 1901.

Answer 5

The Jets and it was 1852.

Answer 6

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference ("NFC") in the National Football League ("NFL"), the team has won three NFL titles and has made two Super Bowl appearances.

The Eagles joined the NFL as a 1933 expansion team.

Midway through the 1931 season, Philadelphia's representative in the NFL, the Frankford Yellow Jackets, went bankrupt and ceased operations. After more than a year of searching for a suitable replacement, the NFL awarded the dormant franchise to a syndicate headed by former Yellow Jackets owners Bert Bell and Lud Wray, in exchange for an entry fee of $2,500. Drawing inspiration from the insignia of the centerpiece of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, the National Recovery Act, Bell and Wray named the new franchise the Philadelphia Eagles. (Neither the Eagles nor the NFL officially regard the two franchises as the same, citing the aforementioned period of dormancy; furthermore, almost no Yellow Jackets players were on the Eagles' first roster. Some observers, however, believe the two teams should be treated as one.) The Eagles, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the defunct Cincinnati Reds, joined the NFL as expansion teams.

The Eagles struggled over the course of their first decade, enduring repeated losing seasons. In 1943, when manpower shortages stemming from World War II made it impossible to fill the roster, the team temporarily merged with the Pittsburgh Steelers to form a team known as "the Phil-Pitt Steagles." (The merger, never intended as a permanent arrangement, was dissolved at the end of the 1943 season.) By the late 1940s, head coach Earle "Greasy" Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949. Those two Championships mark the Eagles as the only NFL team ever to win back to back Championships by shutouts, defeating the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in 1948 and the Los Angeles Rams 14-0 in 1949.

The Eagles won their third NFL championship in 1960 under the leadership of future Pro Football Hall of Famers Norm Van Brocklin and Chuck Bednarik; the head coach was Buck Shaw. The 1960 Eagles, by a score of 17-13, became the only team to defeat Vince Lombardi and his Packers in the playoffs.

But they would not qualify for the postseason again until 1978 when head coach **** Vermeil and quarterback Ron Jaworski led the team to four consecutive playoff appearances, including a Super Bowl XV loss to the Oakland Raiders.

Philadelphia football struggled through the Marion Campbell years and was marked by a malaise in fan participation. In 1986, the arrival of head coach Buddy Ryan and his fiery attitude rejuvenated team performance and ignited the fanbase. From 1988 to 1996, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs during 6 out of those 9 seasons. Among the team's offensive stars during that period were quarterback Randall Cunningham, tight end Keith Jackson, and running back Keith Byars. But the "Gang Green" defense is what defined the team, led by Reggie White, Jerome Brown, Clyde Simmons, Seth Joyner, Wes Hopkins, Byron Evans, Eric Allen, and Andre Waters.

In 1999, the Eagles hired head coach Andy Reid and drafted quarterback Donovan McNabb. Since that time, the team continually improved and eventually succeeded in playing in four consecutive conference championship games between 2001 and 2004. After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles finally advanced to the Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXXIX, where they were defeated by the New England Patriots, 24-21. After a lackluster 2005 campaign, the Eagles returned in 2006 to win the NFC East Championship, eventually losing to the New Orleans Saints in the divisional playoffs
For several decades, the Eagles' colors were Kelly green, silver, and white. Since the 1950s, the club's helmets have featured eagle wings. At first they were silver wings on a Kelly green helmet. Then in 1969, the team wore two helmet versions: Kelly green helmets with white wings for road games, and white helmets with Kelly green wings for home games. From 1970 to 1973, they wore the white helmets with Kelly green wings exclusively before switching back to Kelly green helmets with silver wings. By 1974 the silver wings took on a white outline, and this style on a Kelly green helmet became standard for over two decades. In 1969, the team introduced a stylized logo featuring an eagle carrying a football in its claws. This logo was later redrawn a few years later to be a more realistic.

However, both the logo and uniforms were radically altered in 1996. The primary Kelly green color was changed to a darker shade (Hex triplet: #003b48) officially described as "midnight green"; silver was practically abandoned, as uniform pants moved to either white or the aforementioned midnight green; and the traditional helmet wings were changed to a primarily white color, with silver and black accents.

The team's logo combination - the stylized eagle and club name lettering - also changed in 1996. The eagle itself was limited to a white (bald eagle) head, drawn in a less realistic, more cartoon-based style. And the lettering changed from calligraphic to block letters.

Taken as a whole, the 1996 changes can best be seen in the light of what was happening in all of pro sports in the 1990s. Clubs hired designers and marketing researchers to help them appeal to the urban youth/hip-hop demographic that was driving fashion trends. Darker colors in general, and black in particular, tested well with this group. Thus a large number of clubs abandoned old, brighter color schemes - or kept only token aspects of them - in the hope of selling more apparel to the public. The Philadelphia Eagles were no exception to this trend, though they argably did a better job than most in implementing their changes. By the early 21st century, many of these sports franchises are rediscovering the 'power of tradition' and are bringing back the long lived team colors and logos. It remains to be seen whether the Eagles will do the same, however shirts, caps, and jackets designed with the earlier Kelly green and silver motifs are still very popular with the fans, and can be seen in force at present day home games.

In 1997, against the San Fransisco 49ers, the team wore the Midnight Green jerseys with the midnight pants for the first of only 2 times in team history.

In 2003, the team made subtle changes to this version of the jerseys. On both jerseys black shadows and silver trim was added to the numbers. The stripe on the white pants changed from black-green-black to black, silver, and green. On the midnight pants, the stripe went from solid black to one stripe of black, another of silver, with one small white stripe in the center.

In the first two games of the 2003 season, both home losses to Tampa Bay and New England, the Eagles wore the white jerseys with the white pants, but since the New England game, in every game the team has worn the white jersey, they have worn the green pants.