Search Results for: Football
Events in Sport
Results 1 - 86 of 86
1863-10-26 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1869-11-06 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1875-11-13 - Harvard-Yale game is 1st College Football contest with uniforms
1876-02-03 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1881-03-12 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1883-01-04 - Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1883-01-06 - Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
1883-01-16 - Quebec Rugby Football Union forms
1884-02-07 - Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1892-02-22 - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1892-11-12 - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892-12-27 - N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black College Football game
1897-11-24 - Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1899-01-07 - Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
1902-11-21 - Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1904-01-28 - 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on U of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1904-05-21 - Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
1907-09-13 - Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
1907-10-05 - Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907-12-02 - English Professional Football Player's Association forms
1908-09-04 - Caledonia & Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
1908-09-29 - Calgary Rugby Football Union forms
1910-09-22 - Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
1911-10-21 - Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1919-08-11 - Green Bay Packers football club founded
1920-04-17 - American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1920-10-03 - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922-08-21 - Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1924-11-16 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
1926-09-01 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1928-08-25 - Tri-City Rugby Football Union forms consisting of Moose Jaw, Regina & Winnipeg
1930-06-10 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1930-09-13 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
1932-11-19 - Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a College Football game
1937-09-10 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1939-09-30 - 1st televised College Football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1940-09-15 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1946-09-06 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1950-03-03 - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
1951-12-23 - 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleve Browns 24-17 in NFL Championship game
1955-08-28 - 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1958-01-12 - NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring
1960-09-09 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1965-05-15 - Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1968-12-11 - US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
1969-06-06 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1969-12-21 - Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1970-03-18 - NFL selects Wilson as official football & scoreboard as official time
1970-08-15 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1971-01-02 - A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
1980-01-01 - Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for College Football championship
1980-09-06 - College Football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1981-01-01 - Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for College Football title
1982-01-01 - Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for College Football championship
1983-01-01 - Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for College Football title
1983-01-12 - NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August
1983-12-19 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984-01-02 - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for College Football championship
1984-06-27 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on College Football telecasts
1985-01-02 - Undefeated BYU becomes College Football champions
1985-08-23 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a College Football analyst for betting on games
1986-01-01 - Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for College Football championship
1986-01-12 - Miami Dolphins win AFC football championship
1986-11-28 - NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game
1987-01-02 - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for College Football champ
1987-02-27 - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
1987-10-04 - 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1988-01-01 - Miami beats Oklahoma for College Football championship
1988-12-19 - Oklahoma's College Football team gets 3 year probation
1989-01-02 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for College Football championship
1989-01-21 - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Okla football player
1989-02-10 - Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
1989-02-13 - Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1989-10-09 - 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1990-01-10 - NCAA approves random drug testing for College Football players
1991-03-23 - 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5
1991-03-27 - NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
1991-09-18 - NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
1991-10-19 - Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)
1991-11-02 - Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1992-09-17 - NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1995-04-18 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1996-09-28 - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in College Football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
1998-01-22 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
2001-05-09 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths were caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium)that followed a controversial decision by the referee handling a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
2008-12-28 - The Detroit Lions finished the season 0-16 with a 31-21 lost to the Green Bay Packers The first time in National Football League history that a team went winless in a 16-game season.
Birthdays in Sport
Results 1 - 100 of 587
1859-04-07 - Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
1878-01-19 - Herbert Chapman, English football player and manager (d. 1934)
1888-03-04 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1892-07-18 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1893-12-06 - Lou Little, College Football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
1895-09-15 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1897-02-15 - Earl H Blaik, Det, College Football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1899-03-28 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
1899-12-04 - Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953)
1900-10-31 - Carl Hubbard, Missouri, baseball & football Hall of Famer
1911-10-26 - Sid Gilman, American football player (d. 2003)
1913-02-14 - Woody Hayes, [Wayne], College Football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of the year)
1915-12-29 - Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
1916-04-23 - Bud Wilkinson, College Football coach (Oklahoma)
1918-03-05 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918-03-21 - Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1919-02-13 - Eddie Robinson, winningest College Football coach (Grambling)
1919-03-31 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
1920-06-02 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
1922-04-29 - George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
1923-06-14 - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1924-12-21 - Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
1925-06-05 - Art Donovan, American football star
1926-08-20 - Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1926-12-21 - Joe Paterno, American football coach
1927-01-01 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1928-10-18 - Keith Jackson, Carrolton Ga, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football)
1929-02-03 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
1929-02-28 - Hayden Fry, American football coach
1929-04-01 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
1929-05-07 - Babe Parilli, American football player
1929-11-08 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1930-01-17 - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
1930-08-22 - Gilmar, Brazilian football player
1930-09-11 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1931-02-18 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
1931-04-19 - Alex Webster, football coach (NY Giants)
1931-10-25 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
1932-01-01 - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
1932-07-16 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1932-07-21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1932-10-20 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
1932-10-25 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
1935-05-25 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1935-07-08 - John David Crow, football player (Heisman Trophy 1957)
1936-03-10 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss ice hockey and football official
1936-07-28 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1937-02-23 - Tom Osborne, College Football coach
1937-08-02 - William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
1937-09-19 - Abner Haynes, American football player
1937-12-24 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian football player
1938-03-04 - Don Perkins, American football player
1938-04-10 - Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1938-08-22 - Paul Maguire, American football commentator
1938-09-22 - Gene Mingo, American football player
1939-03-07 - Panajot Pano, Albania's most outstanding football player of the past 50 years born in Durres
1939-06-22 - Don Matthews, American football coach in the CFL
1939-07-05 - Booker Edgerson, American football player
1939-07-18 - Jerry Moore, American football coach
1940-01-22 - George Seifert, American football coach
1940-02-02 - Wayne Fontes, American football coach
1940-02-15 - John Hadl, American football player
1940-11-25 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
1941-03-28 - Jim Turner, American football player
1941-04-27 - Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
1941-08-20 - Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941-12-30 - Mel Renfro, American football player
1942-01-25 - Carl Eller, American football player
1943-07-28 - Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
1943-09-23 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1945-04-13 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
1945-07-10 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945-08-23 - Rayfield Wright, American football player
1945-10-18 - Yıldo, Turkish famous showman and football player
1945-11-12 - Al Michaels, Bkln, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945-11-25 - George Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
1946-01-01 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1946-02-09 - Vince Papale, American football player
1946-05-03 - Norm Chow, American football coach
1946-05-22 - Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
1946-07-16 - Ron Yary, American football player
1946-08-09 - Jim Kiick, American football player
1946-08-25 - Charlie Sanders, American football player
1946-09-08 - L.C. Greenwood, American football player
1946-09-18 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
1946-10-14 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach
1946-11-20 - Greg Cook, American football player
1947-01-05 - Mercury Morris, American football player
1947-03-19 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1947-08-19 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
1947-12-02 - Tommy Jenkins, English football player
1947-12-05 - Jim Plunkett, American football player
1948-03-17 - Alex MacDonald, Scottish Footballer and football manager
1948-09-10 - Charlie Waters, American football player
1948-12-23 - Jack Ham, American football player (Steelers)
1949-03-17 - Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1949-06-29 - Dan Dierdorf, NFLer, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1949-10-19 - Lynn Dickey, American football player
1950-03-12 - Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1950-09-01 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
Deaths in Sport
Results 1 - 100 of 120
1920-12-14 - George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1925-03-14 - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1931-03-31 - Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1931-09-05 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1936-10-03 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1963-05-10 - Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
1963-05-18 - Ernie Davis, American football player (b. 1939)
1969-09-06 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (b. 1892)
1970-06-16 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1970-07-21 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1970-09-03 - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
1971-04-15 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1973-03-26 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1974-04-21 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1978-02-14 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)
1980-01-10 - Bo Rein, American College Football coach (b. 1945)
1983-01-26 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, College Football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1983-03-25 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1983-05-02 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
1986-01-15 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1986-05-11 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1986-12-01 - Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
1987-04-03 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1990-01-07 - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990-03-15 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1990-12-31 - George Allen, US football coach (LA Rams, Wash Redskins), dies
1991-09-13 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1993-03-26 - Roy Riegels, U of Calif football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1995-04-23 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
1996-07-24 - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1997-11-09 - Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach (b. 1910)
1998-03-08 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1998-07-05 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
1998-09-27 - Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
1999-06-14 - Bernie Faloney, professional football player (b. 1932)
2000-01-04 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2000-02-08 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2000-02-12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2001-02-17 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2001-08-01 - Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2001-12-06 - Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame College Football coach (b. 1923)
2002-01-29 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002-04-15 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2002-04-18 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2002-05-09 - Dan Devine, American football coach (b. 1924)
2002-06-26 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2002-09-11 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
2002-09-18 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2002-10-24 - Herman Gaviria, Colombian football player (b. 1969)
2003-01-03 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2003-02-20 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003-02-21 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2003-07-15 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2003-08-26 - Jim Wacker, American football coach (b. 1937)
2003-12-17 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
2004-01-28 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004-04-22 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2004-06-09 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2004-09-20 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2004-12-26 - Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961)
2005-03-16 - Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2005-04-10 - Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
2005-04-18 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2005-04-20 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
2005-07-04 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2005-08-05 - Jim O'Hora, American football coach (b. 1915)
2005-08-20 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005-09-13 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005-11-02 - Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2005-11-16 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
2005-11-23 - Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
2005-12-07 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2005-12-15 - Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
2006-02-01 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006-02-16 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
2006-03-15 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2006-03-30 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2006-05-27 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006-06-29 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006-09-08 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2006-11-07 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006-11-17 - Bo Schembechler, American football coach (b. 1929)
2006-11-20 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2007-01-01 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2007-01-06 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
2007-02-24 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2007-02-24 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2007-03-10 - Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2007-04-03 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
2007-04-05 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007-04-30 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007-05-28 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007-06-19 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007-07-30 - Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007-10-02 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007-10-20 - Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
2007-11-26 - Sean Taylor, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2007-11-27 - Bill Willis, American football player (b. 1921)
2007-11-27 - Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
2007-12-31 - Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959)
