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Here they are playing the Philadelphia Eagles at Soldier Field September 28, 2008. Soldier Field is a stadium that opened in 1924. It has primarily served as the home field of the Chicago Bears professional football club for over four decades, but it also hosted numerous other events in its more than 90 years of existence.
He later pursued a career in sports broadcasting and was the play-by-play announcer for the first televised Rose Bowl in the late 1940s and worked for CBS from 1950 to 1962. He later hosted a 10-minute daily sports show on the ABC radio network in the 1960s and worked as the sports anchor on the KTLA nightly news from 1958 to 1964.
Some 19 active or former players of the National Football League would ultimately die in the American war effort, [1] in addition to an uncounted number of former collegians. Early in the war effort one football writer said about the applicability of the formation of football teams with military training: Football is a body-toughener.
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 0–9. 1940 in North American football (1 C) 1941 in North ...
The 1944 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1944 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Earl Blaik , the Cadets compiled a perfect 9–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 504 to 35. [ 1 ]
Dick Logan, professional football player; Terry McDaniel, professional football player for the Oakland Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks; Ricky Minard, professional basketball player; Don Nehlen, former head football coach; Bill Peterson, former head football coach at Florida State, Mansfield Senior High, Rice University, and with the Houston Oilers
Armistice Day Parade in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 11, 1938, marked 20 years after the end of World War I. The parade grand marshall, Haywood Davis, is followed by the Texas Christian University ...
While Bill Edwards did not take over the league as previously announced (that job eventually went to former Ohio State University publicity director William D. Griffith), [3] the 1940 season began with six teams owned by people who were, for the most part, in better financial standing than their NFL counterparts. In the NFL, many of the owners ...