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Did you know?
- The first football game was played on Nov. 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton. Each team had 25 players, and they moved the ball by butting it with their heads.
- The forward pass was legal but rarely used until 1913, when Notre Dame players figured out that catching the ball on the run worked much better.
- President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to make football illegal in 1906 because the game was so brutal.
- The oldest NFL team is the Chicago Bears, who started out in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys.
- Ernie Nevers scored 40 points in one game in 1929: six touchdowns and four extra points against the Chicago Bears.
- Few Americans cared about pro football until the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Colts was broadcast on TV.