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Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.
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Football and authority
Football writer Brian Glanville, discussing Billy Wright's time at Arsenal, wrote: " he had neither the guile nor the authority to make things work and he reacted almost childishly to criticism ".
The tournament was seen as a major success and proved that the event was here to stay and also led to many countries joining the International Rugby Football Board which in turn led the IRFB to become the true authority for the running of international rugby union.
He was often fearless in his attacks on football authority, particularly the ' blazers ' at the Football Association.
FIRA was formed in 1934 to promote, develop, organise and administer the game of rugby union in Europe outside the authority of the International Rugby Football Board ( as the International Rugby Board was then called ), and quickly came to spread outside the continent.
It was designed to organise rugby union outside the authority of the International Rugby Football Board ( as it was known at the time ).
McGregor himself had little interest in the business aspect of football, and was adamant that the Football League should not challenge the longstanding authority of the FA.
In 1921, around the time of the partition of Ireland, the Football Association of Ireland ( FAI ) split from the IFA and disputed its authority.
In 1952, the Government of the Gold Coast enacted Ordinance 14, establishing the Gold Coast Amateur Sports Council, which gave it legal authority to control all amateur Associations including Football.
It was founded in 1944 and serves under the authority of the French Football Federation.
All teams are run by their respective federation under the authority of the French Football Federation.
The Rugby Football League's authority in the sport was supported by having a majority of the representatives on the Board.
By then, the authority of Amândio de Carvalho, vice-president of the Portuguese Football Federation was undermined, and president Silva Resende refused to leave Mexico City.
Football and College
the College of San Mateo Football & Sports Hall of Fame websites for info on Walsh, Madden & others ).
The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented game of something called intercollegiate " football " ever played between two American colleges, and because of this, Rutgers refers to itself as The Birthplace of College Football.
A photograph of the 1875 Tufts team which hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana commemorates this match as the generally accepted first intercollegiate football game between two US institutions.
He published numerous articles in publications such as Collier's Weekly and Harper's Weekly, and he chose the first College Football All-America Team. 1906 St. Louis Post-Dispatch photograph of Bradbury Robinson | Brad Robinson, who threw the first legal forward pass
* Boyles, Bob & Guido, Paul, 50 Years of College Football, 2007
* John Brown ( American football, born 1891 ) ( 1891 – 1963 ), player for Navy, College Football Hall of Fame inductee
His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him " without question, American football's most-renowned coach.
* Rockne was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a charter member and in the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.
Category: College Football Hall of Fame inductees
* 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
New Malden includes Motspur Park, home to the training ground of Fulham Football Club and also the King's College, London sports ground, home to the training ground of AFC Wimbledon.
The Christ's College Rugby Football Club ( CCRFC ) was founded in 1875 by Alfred Cort Haddon, considered the father of modern anthropology.
In 1999, GQ listed the Monon Bell game as reason number three on its " 50 Reasons Why College Football is Better Than Pro Football " list.
* June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of College Football: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Mass ..
* May 14 – The first rugby match is played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.
* College Football Hall of Fame
* Rex Kern, Football quarterback, Ohio State Buckeyes football 1968 National Championship team, All-American, College Football Hall of Fame ( 2007 ); played professionally as a defensive back for the NFL's Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts
( The distinction between " Commoners " and " Houses " is now of purely sporting significance ( see Winchester College Football ), and " a Commoner " now means any pupil who is not a scholar.
College Football: history, spectacle, controversy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 ISBN 0-8018-7114-X
* College Football Hall of Fame member profile
Football and Hall
For the centenary of the VFL / AFL in 1996, the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.
In 1993, he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
His success with the 49ers was rewarded with his election to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
Walsh, in turn, belonged to the coaching tree of American Football League great and Hall of Fame coach Sid Gillman of the AFL's Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers.
The franchise history includes Browns club records and connections with Pro Football Hall of Fame players.
Paul Brown, the first head coach and namesake of the Browns, who won 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships as coach of the Browns, is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and is widely regarded as one of football's greatest coaches of all-time.
The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.
Brown and six players from the Browns ' AAFC years were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Graham, Motley, Groza, Lavelli, Willis and center Frank Gatski.
Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.
Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.
The Bears hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, with 27 members, and the most retired jersey numbers ( 13 ).
Meanwhile, he refused to induct Tex Schramm ( even after Schramm's induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ).
Banks was an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
After his retirement from football he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
In 2003, Lineker was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Johnny Unitas was the Baltimore Colts ' starting quarterback from 1956 to 1972.
Category: Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees
* 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
Category: English Football Hall of Fame inductees
He was a Board Member for the Lott IMPACT Trophy, which is named after Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott, and is awarded annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.
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