American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)
Events
- Amos Alonzo Stagg enters Yale University as a divinity student and, a natural athlete, joins the university's football team.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)