1898 in Sports - American Football

American Football

College championship

  • College football national championship – Harvard Crimson and Princeton Tigers (shared)

Events

  • The Morgan Athletic Club, which will eventually become Arizona Cardinals, is founded in Chicago and is the sport's oldest professional team.

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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

    “Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility—the American Dream.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
    —Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)