American Football
NFL championship
- Green Bay Packers 27–0 New York Giants in the NFL championship game played at Milwaukee, Wisconsin
College championship
- College football national championship – Texas A&M
Events
- September 30 - The first televised football game is played between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets. NBC broadcast the game on station W2XBS with Bill Stern as the sole announcer.
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“I have fallen in love with American names,”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
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