American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Michigan Wolverines and Yale Bulldogs (shared)
Events
- 1 January — inaugural Rose Bowl game is played at Pasadena, California
- October — the first professional league, the National Football League (1902) (unrelated to the current NFL), is formed from three teams in the Philadelphia area that are backed by Major League Baseball. The league folds a few months later.
- 28 December — the first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden between Philadelphia Phillies and Syracuse Athletic Club; in all, four games take place in the World Series of Pro Football, an early attempt to establish a national professional championship.
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