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* The Football League expands the Second Division from 15 to 16 clubs ahead of the 1894 – 95 season.
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-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.
The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.
Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.
He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.
A formula to supply players for the new Minneapolis Vikings and the problem of increasing the 1961 schedule to fourteen games will be discussed by National Football League owners at a meeting at the Hotel Warwick today.
Category: National Football League
* 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player
* Adrian McPherson ( born 1983 ), American quarterback in the Canadian Football League
They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ).
The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).
They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ).
The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League ( AFL ).
One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.
Category: Former Football League clubs
Category: Football League Cup winners
Expansion and modernization of Raymond Field was completed in the fall of 2007 and features the installation of an eight-lane all-weather running track and a move to the same premium artificial turf used by the New England Patriots of the National Football League for its main playing field.
* Eredivisie ( up to 1955 – 56 the Netherlands Football League Championship ): 31
The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.
Football and expands
It is short – lived and collapses in 1892 when the Football League expands.
* The Football League expands from twelve to fourteen teams for the 1891 – 92 season: Stoke FC, having been expelled in 1890, is restored ; Darwen is elected.
* The Third Division North expands from 20 to 22 clubs, bringing the total number of Football League clubs to 88.
Football and Second
The team won the Lancashire League in its début season, and joined the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1893 – 94 season.
! scope = row | Football League Second Division
Despite being refused entry to the Football League's First Division at the start of the 1892 – 93 season, they were invited to play in their new Second Division.
The senior football team, Stirling Albion, play in the Scottish Football League Second Division at their home ground of the Doubletree Dunblane Stadium.
The club was formed in 1882, as Hotspur F. C., and played in the Southern League until 1908, when it was elected into the Football League Second Division.
The new club took Burton Swifts ' place in the Second Division of the Football League and took over residence at their Peel Croft home.
** 6 – 0 against Carlisle United, 22 January 1977 ( Football League Second Division )
** 0 – 6 against Plymouth Argyle, 5 December 1931 ( Football League Second Division )
** 0 – 8 against Tottenham Hotspur, 28 March 1936 ( Football League Second Division )
* 9 – 3 ( at home ) against Wolverhampton Wanderers, 18 September 1965 ( Football League Second Division )
From 1921 – 22, the third tier of The Football League consisted of two parallel sections of 22 clubs, fighting both for promotion to the Second Division and also battling to hold on to their league status.
The Football League was suspended in 1939 due to the Second World War.
of the Scottish Football League Second Division
The club began the 2002 – 03 season in the Football League Second Division, following their promotion from the Third Division.
They also competed in the Football League Trophy where they reached the Second Round before being defeated 2 – 0 at home by Brentford.
In 1892 the club were founder members of the Football League Second Division.
However the club's fortunes soon improved, they moved into their new home of The Old Recreation Ground in 1912 and returned to the Football League in October 1919, taking over the fixture list of Leeds City in the Second Division, who were disbanded because of financial irregularities.
However, a decline set in and they found themselves in the Fourth Division by 1986, before a revival and back-to-back promotions under manager Graham Turner and record goalscorer Steve Bull saw them finish the decade in the Second Division, winning the Football League Trophy along the way.
The original Football League becomes the new First Division, expanded to 16 teams ; and the new Second Division is formed with 12 teams, many of them former members of the Alliance.
* Ahead of the 1893 – 94 season, the Football League decides to expand the Second Division from 12 to 16 clubs but, with the unexpected demise of Accrington FC, they are left with 15.
Bootle FC is expelled from the league and, to make the Second Division up to 16 clubs, the league elects Liverpool, Middlesbrough Ironopolis ( league membership 1893 – 94 ), Newcastle United, Rotherham Town ( 1893 – 96 ) and Woolwich Arsenal, the latter being the first club from the south of England to join the Football League.
Unexpectedly, Accrington FC then withdraws from the Football League and the 1893 – 94 Second Division has to proceed with an uneven 15 clubs.
* Both the Football League First and Second Divisions are expanded from 16 to 18 teams in 1898, bringing the total number of League sides to 36.
21 goals the following campaign played a big part in a second successive promotion which took them into the Football League Second Division.
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