American Football
- Minnesota Golden Gophers are the National college football champions
- Green Bay Packers defeated Boston Redskins 21–6 for the NFL championship. The game was moved from Boston to New York's Polo Grounds
- First NFL Draft held
- Second American Football League founded
- Cleveland Rams founded by Homer Marsh as part of AFL II
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won’t be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody’s century, when people all over the world—free people—found a way to live together? I’d like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.”
—Moss Hart (1904–1961)
“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.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)