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The colleges of Rugters and Princeton played what is called as the first college football game, and it wasnt until the kare 1880's that Wlater Camp a rugby player from Yale, altered some rules that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of American Football.
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William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger, a student at Yale University was secretly paid $500 to play a NFL game.
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In 1921 the Green Bay Packers joined the NFL after going through some growing pains and this team would eventually become the oldest team to date.
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A group of football teams was originally called the American Professional Football Association until a cluster of Ohio teams organized a new professional football league calling them the National Football League (NFL).
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At insistence of the Washington 'Redskins' owner, the NFL creates a policy of complete and total racial segregation. No more back athletes will play in the NFL until after World War II.
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In 1936 NFL composed their first college draft.
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The first NFL game that was broadcasted was aired on NBC and the teams that were playing were; The Brooklyn Dodgers and The Philidelphia Eagles.
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The first Africian American; Kenny Washington and Woody Strode were drafted into the Los Angeles Rams, ending the 13 years of whites-only football in the league.
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The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL team to wear a helmet logo, and that being a apinted ram's horns on their leather helmets.
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First NFL Championship televised nationwide.
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For the first time, mor people voted in a national survey choose pro football than baseball as their favorite sport.
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The NFL Green Bay Packer's defeat the Kansas City Cheif's and won the first Super Bowl.
