1929 in Sports - American Football

American Football

NFL championship

  • Green Bay Packers wins National Football League title

College championship

  • College football national championship – Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pittsburgh Panthers and USC Trojans (shared)

Events

  • 1 January – Rose Bowl is won by Georgia Tech defeating California 8–7
  • 28 November – Ernie Nevers scores 6 rushing touchdowns for Chicago Cardinals against Chicago Bears

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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)

    “Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
    —David Storey (b. 1933)