First professional football game

This belongs in the other section since it’s not not Steelers related

I don’t care and I’m too lazy to go there

Without looking how many of you know where who and when was the first “professional” football game

For a while just shotgun thoughts

 

Canton Bulldogs 1905? Canton Ohio.


Shot in the dark.

 

Previous century

But thank you for making me Google the Bulldogs

 

I wanted to say in the 1800's but figured slightly before the great war wasn't a bad guess.


I do know July 8th 1933 was the day the Chief started us on this course. Thank you Mr. Rooney and thank you twitter for reminding me.

 

As we converse I’m reading Art Rooney’s book My 75 years….

I’m still on chapter one which covers the Chief his life and how he became the owner of the “Pirates”

It’s so far an interesting insightful read

Especially for me who lived on the north side

Did you grow up in Pittsburg area

 

The team that had its name canceled

 

No I was born in Clarion about an hour or so north east of Pittsburgh. My mom and Dad's families are from Marienville which is 20 min drive further. My dad was in the Air Force and we got stationed in the black hole that is North Dakota when I was 3. Still PA is home to mom and dad and me for some strange reason, don't think my brothers or sister think that way but every time I'm there it's like time slows down.

 

I know Rutgers beat Princeton in the first college game but the NFL I'll guess in 1919 between the Decatur Staley's and the Canton Bulldogs.

 

Didn’t it involve some guy named Pudge Heflefinger? It was in Pittsburgh in the 1880s, if I remember right,

 

Close

 

Previous century

 

Definition of “professional” might be part of this but I didn’t just make this up

 

Yeah right. LoL
Like hibernation of old people. LoL

 

I have no idea, but it still always comes down to who was better beating off defenders. The basics are still the basics.

 

I’m sticking by that story

 

The first football game was the Steelers first game in 1933. Nothing before then counts because if the Steelers ain't in it, it ain't real football.

 

This is not the article from NG because I think it was Russia or Norway or northern Canada and it was pine boughs not a box but this is similar:

https://www.almanac.com/content/frozen-death

 

i thought you meant this was jeh's first game attended, but it was way before that. Uhg actually took the rock 60 yards until stopped by the tail of the dinosaur.

 

OK, I was thinking NFL but I guess there were some version of pro football before that.

 

Like it said in the article .....Highly debated. I would say great piece of fiction.

 

The Redskins?

 

East Forest HS in Marienville average around 13 kids per class so they teamed up with West Forest in Tionesta for their sports teams who have the best nickname in the state, the Forest Fires.

 

My folks were East Forest class of 69.

 

I went to Moniteau also a small country school in the middle of nowhere. Our sports team play Forest in District 9. I started HS in 1969 so your parents aren't much older than me.

 

Yes