In 1911, influential American football historian Parke H. Davis wrote an early history of the game of football, tracing the sport's origins to ancient times: abundant evidence may be marshalled …

Mar 6, 2025 · Long before there were such things as highly modernized helmets, cutting-edge pads, and also multi-billion-dollar stadiums, American football stood as an unprecedented …

Nov 6, 2025 · Football, or “American football” as the rest of the world calls it, can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Here's a vintage photo collection.

He even wrote a letter saying he had no use for critics who objected to the violent game. But a decade later, newspapers made much of the injuries and fatalities caused by football – the …

Oct 1, 2021 · Football degraded in the 1890s to a sport that left many of its participants crippled, disfigured or worse. In 1897, a member of the Georgia football team died in a game against …

Sep 6, 2012 · President Teddy Roosevelt, a die-hard football fan, saved the sport from collapse and helped reshape the rules to create the game we know today. With little protective …

Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby …

Jan 24, 2024 · The early 20th century marked the emergence of professional football teams. In 1920, the American Professional Football Association (APFA) was founded, which two years …

Dec 14, 2025 · American football - College, Golden Age, Rules: After World War I had put the game temporarily on hold, college football fully came of age in the 1920s, when it became …

From the sport's humble beginnings in the early 1900s, football has come a long way. Here are 26 old timey football photos to take in, before we get a whole new batch from the new season.