American Football
- All-America Football Conference begins play. Cleveland Browns win the championship by beating New York Yankees 14-9.
- Chicago Bears win the NFL crown by defeating the New York Giants 24-14 in New York.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)