Birth of the National Football League
Founding and history of NFL
Founding and history of NFL
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Birth of the National Football League |
The National Football League (NFL) is one of the most successful professional sports in the world. The NFL successfully marketed a game that has no important contributory base outside of North America to international prominence through the media frenzy of the Super Bowl, its annual championship game.
The NFL was founded in 1920, a league that was a progress from the semiprofessional clubs that had sprung up in the working-class towns of the eastern United States
On August 20, 1920,
a meeting was held by representatives of the Akron Pros,
Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio. This meeting perform in the formation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), a group who, according to the Canton Evening Repository, intended to "raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules".[8] Another meeting held on September 17, 1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association (APFA).[8] The league hired Jim Thorpe as their first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals
The NFL was founded in 1920, a league that was a progress from the semiprofessional clubs that had sprung up in the working-class towns of the eastern United States
On August 20, 1920,
a meeting was held by representatives of the Akron Pros,
Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio. This meeting perform in the formation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), a group who, according to the Canton Evening Repository, intended to "raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules".[8] Another meeting held on September 17, 1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association (APFA).[8] The league hired Jim Thorpe as their first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys (now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals
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