American Football
NFL championship
- Chicago Bears 73–0 Washington Redskins in the NFL championship game
College championship
- College football national championship – Minnesota Golden Gophers, Stanford Indians and Tennessee Volunteers (shared)
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Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)