American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Centre Praying Colonels, Harvard Crimson, Illinois Fighting Illini, Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Texas A&M Aggies (shared). Notre Dame is coached by Knute Rockne.
Professional football
- Green Bay Packers established at Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Decatur Staleys established at Decatur, Illinois; the club will relocate to Chicago in 1921 and rename itself Chicago Bears
- New York Pro Football League holds what is believed to be the first ever playoff tournament, won by the Buffalo Prospects
- Canton Bulldogs win Ohio League title and the de facto national championship
- Most professional teams reactivate after suspending operations the year before
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selves. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you’ve grown into another one.”
—Amanda Theodosia Jones, U.S. beauty contest winner, Miss U.S.A., 1973. As quoted under the pseudonym “Emma Wright” in American Dreams, Prologue, by Studs Terkel (1980)
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—Donald Hall (b. 1928)