1959 in Sports - American Football

American Football

  • NFL Championship – Baltimore Colts won 31-16 over the New York Giants
  • August 14 - The American Football League is founded. Play would begin the following year.

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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

    “I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left ... the feeling that I could change the world only by being there.”
    —Viorica Butnariu, Rumanian student at Bucharest University. letter, Dec. 23, 1989, to American friend. Observer (London, Dec. 31, 1989)

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