The first season of American football
( APFA )
The
1920 season marked the establishment of the American Professional Football
Association (APFA)
Professional football was primarily a regional sport in the early part of the 20th century, with most informal circuits centered around a single state or region with only limited play outside state lines
, they first called their new league the American Professional Football Conference. A second organizational meeting was held in Canton on September 17, adding more teams to the league. At the meeting, the name of the league become the American Professional Football Association. Four other teams also joined the Association during the year. Meanwhile, Jim Thorpe of the Canton Bulldogs was named the APFA's first president but continued to play for the team
Western Champion
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| 1920 APFA season
By the late 1910s, the regional circuits had organized into more or less leagues of varying degrees of organization. One of the most prominent at the time was the Ohio League, which boasted the services of legendary American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe, among other stars 1920
Lyons' vision of a national league of existing football clubs (which, at the time, was competing with another proposed league, again backed by baseball) was cut short by the United States' entry into World War I and further hampered by a flu pandemic in 1918
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