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In 1874 the first football game was played between Harvard and McGill college.They said it was a combination of rugby and soccer.
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A field goal was dropped from four point to three.
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Federick Douglass ws the first African American heasd coach in the NFL. Fritz was also a player during the 1920's.
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The American Professional Football officially renames itself to National Football League (NFL)
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The NFL added a fourth official, the field judge.
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Raymond Kemp was an African American football player which he played for Pittsburgh Pirates football team which is now known as the Steelers. In fact he was the first African American player in the teams history of the NFL.
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Art Rooney also known as "The Chief" was the founding owner of Pittsburgh Steelers franchise in the NFL. He was the chief from 1933 until his death.
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Washington Redskins owner George Marshall, the NFL opposes a new policy of total racial segragation that no more African-Americans will play in the NFL. Not until after WWII.
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An NFL game airs on television for the first time, with NBC producing a local broadcast of a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles.
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Green Bay defeated New York with a score of 27-0 in the NFL Championship Game, December 10 at Milwaukee.
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With many of the NFL's players and fans overseas in military service, the league struggles to survive through World War II. More than a 1,000 NFL players serves in the millitary during this war.
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The Los Angeles Rams become the first NFL team to wear a helmet logo, which was a painting of rams' horns onto their leather hats.
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Willie Thrower which entered the Chicago Bears, was the first black quarterback.
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Vince Lombardi took over a downtrodden Green Bay Packers team in 1959 and turned it into professional football's most dominant organization of the 1960s.
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Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers win their first of five titles in the 1960s, crushing the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game. The score was 37-0.
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The NFL's Green Bay Packers defeat the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs to win the first Super Bowl. More than 32,000 tickets went unsold for the game, the game was held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, but the game draws more television viewers than any previous sporting event.
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Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969. He played during the fifth season which they played in Super Bowl, he was a starting quarterback, he led the Cowboys victories to Super Bowl VI and XII. He was named the most valuable player.
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Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton runs for an NFL single-game record of 275 yards. Payton's record will stand for 23 years.
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During the broadcast of Super Bowl XIII, Coca-Cola airs one of the most popular Super Bowl ads of all time, showing Pittsburgh linebacker Joe Greene and a young fan "having a Coke and a smile" in a stadium tunnel after a game.
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The first Superbowl concert held by Diana Ross. The concert was held in Detroit.
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Mitchell was included to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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A team was brought to Houston, in part of lack of interest of Houston residents by an NHL survey.
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LA Rams quarterback Norm Van Brocklin sets an NFL passing record that would last for more than half a century by throwing 554 yards.
