American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Princeton Tigers
Events
- Inaugural match between Philips Andover and Philips Exeter, believed to be the sport's oldest high school rivalry
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
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