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:
“You’re contending with a genius, D.J. is his name, only American alive who could outtalk Cassius Clay, that’s lip.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“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)