1885 in Sports - American Football

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:

“The American ideal is youth—handsome, empty youth.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)