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Rugby was Transformed into Football
The colleges of Rugters and Princeton played what is called as the first college football game, and it wasnt until the kare 1880's that Wlater Camp a rugby player from Yale, altered some rules that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football. -
First Pro Athlete to Play Pro Football
William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger, a student at Yale University was secretly paid $500 to play a NFL game. -
Green Bay Packers
In 1921 the Green Bay Packers joined the NFL after going through some growing pains and this team would eventually become the oldest team to date. -
Professional Football Began
A group of football teams was originally called the American Professional Football Association until a cluster of Ohio teams organized a new professional football league calling them the National Football League (NFL). -
Football Segregates
At insistence of the Washington 'Redskins' owner, the NFL creates a policy of complete and total racial segregation. No more back athletes will play in the NFL until after World War II. -
First NFL Draft
In 1936 NFL composed their first college draft. -
Forst Televised NFL Game
The first NFL game that was broadcasted was aired on NBC and the teams that were playing were; The Brooklyn Dodgers and The Philidelphia Eagles. -
The First Africian-American Players
The first Africian American; Kenny Washington and Woody Strode were drafted into the Los Angeles Rams, ending the 13 years of whites-only football in the league. -
The First Helmets Logos
The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL team to wear a helmet logo, and that being a apinted ram's horns on their leather helmets. -
NFL Championship Televised
First NFL Championship televised nationwide. -
Football Beats Baseball as Favorite Sport
For the first time, mor people voted in a national survey choose pro football than baseball as their favorite sport. -
First Super Bowl
The NFL Green Bay Packer's defeat the Kansas City Cheif's and won the first Super Bowl.
