American Football
- Minnesota Golden Gophers are the National college football champions
- Green Bay Packers defeated Boston Redskins 21–6 for the NFL championship. The game was moved from Boston to New York's Polo Grounds
- First NFL Draft held
- Second American Football League founded
- Cleveland Rams founded by Homer Marsh as part of AFL II
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)