However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

After finishing the season 7 – 9, however, coach Jim Mora was dismissed and Bobby Petrino, the University of Louisville's football coach, replaced him.

Founded by a merger arranged by the Fascist regime in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s ( 1951 – 52 ).

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

The club's current position comes within 15 years of their being one of the top sides in Welsh football, winning the old format Welsh Football League in 1991 and 1992, but being relegated in 1993 after just one season in the newly formed League of Wales.

Autumn has a strong association with American football, as the regular season begins during September and ends with playoff competition in December or January, in the winter season.

Canadian football, on the other hand, begins in the summer, but extends its season through the autumn season and into November.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

In this period of renewed football attendances, Charlton became one of only eleven English football teams to average over 40, 000 as their attendance during a full season.

An insight into life at the football club in this period is provided by Left Foot Forward: A Year in the Life of a Journeyman Footballer, a highly-praised account of the 1994 – 95 season written in diary form by Charlton forward Garry Nelson.

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

This was a remarkable result for Coleman who in his second season of coaching pulled off the ultimate prize in Australian football.

The football season opened for most schools during the first week of October, and the impact of the forward pass was immediate:

Hackett, who would become a member of the football rules committee in December 1907 and officiated games into the 1930s, was quoted the next day in Ed Wray's Post-Dispatch article: " It was the most perfect exhibition ... of the new rules ... that I have seen all season and much better than that of Yale and Harvard.

In 1907, after the first season of the forward pass, one football writer noted that, " with the single exception of Cochems, football teachers were groping in the dark.

In the third season of what is now considered the modern era of football, Fulham finished top of the Second Division, with a win-loss-draw record of 24 – 9 – 9 ( identical to that which won them the Third Division South seventeen years previously ).

In only their third season of First Division football, Fulham finished rock bottom of the 22-team league in the 1951 – 52 season, winning only eight of forty-two games.

All clubs in the Premier League and Football League are automatically eligible, and clubs in the next six levels of the English football league system are also eligible provided they have played in either the FA Cup, FA Trophy or FA Vase competitions in the previous season.

In the 2010 – 11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35, 363, the second highest of any professional football league other than the German Bundesliga, and stadium occupancy was 92. 2 % capacity.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

* National football championship ( this article pertains to systems of determining a national champion prior to and including the BCS )

American football line of scrimmage, prior to a play

Canadian football line of scrimmage, prior to a play

A number of road and airport projects were initiated prior to Mali ’ s hosting of the African Nations Cup football tournament in 2002.

HVV was the most successful Dutch football club prior to World War I.

Winterbottom is the only England manager to have had no prior managerial experience in professional football.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

Bart was a standout running back for the Boise State University Bronco's football team in the late eighties and 1990, and played with Ottawa Rough Riders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders in the CFL as well as one season of professional indoor football prior to recurring injuries.

On game day, an autograph session with the football student-athletes is held in Beaver Stadium, prior to kickoff of the Blue-White football intrasquad scrimmage game.

Miss Hallsville Contestants are introduced at around 7pm prior to the Friday night Hallsville Bobcat football game in Bobcat Stadium.

It was said that the booing was due to English football fans causing damage in Luxembourg the year prior to the contest.

The first professional player was a placekick holder ( a traditionally trivial position usually occupied by a person who holds another position on the team ), while the best known female college football players were all placekickers, with all having primarily played women's soccer prior to converting.

However, eight months without competitive football had taken its toll and Cantona struggled for form prior to Christmas-by 24 December, the gap between Manchester United and league leaders Newcastle United had increased to 10 points.

The club play in the Premier League after winning promotion in 2008 ; prior to this Stoke had not participated in top flight football for twenty-three years.

The original Frankford Athletic Association apparently disbanded prior to the 1909 football season.

The Minneapolis Marines are especially known for their lack of prior football experience and their outstanding ability to still remain one of the best " independent " teams in the upper midwest regions.

Bourbon Bondurant, an insurance agent with prior pro football experience with the Fort Wayne Friars ; Joe Windbiel, a local high school coach who played professionally with the Detroit Heralds ; architect Earl Warweg, who had played semi-pro football for five years in Indianapolis ; cigar company traffic manager Clarence Specht ; and June Talley, an insurance adjuster also with college football experience, soon joined the team.

As regards football itself, Blasco Garzón introduced numerous innovations: he contracted a doctor to attend to the players, separated the positions of captain and trainer and instituted concentrations prior to important matches.

observe a minute silence in memory of Jim Langley prior to a football match.

The NFL began running promotional television ads for fantasy football featuring current players for the first time.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

The current football coach is Geno DeMarco.

former pro football player and current FOX NFL Sunday co-host Terry Bradshaw,

* 1956 – Ozzie Newsome, American football player, current general manager of the Baltimore Ravens

Lloyd Carr, former head coach at the University of Michigan, former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, and Steve Mariucci, former head coach of the Detroit Lions, played football for NMU, and current Michigan State coach Tom Izzo played basketball at NMU.

Pisa (; ) is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea-and the current location of British-Dutch football, cycling and retro Southampton shirt enthusiast Jeff Thomas.

The current head football coach is Erik Raeburn.

Joseph " Sepp " Blatter ( born 10 March 1936 ) is a Swiss football administrator, who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA ( Fédération Internationale de Football Association ).

Besides hosting the Brahmas ' football and women's soccer teams, John Shepard Stadium ( current capacity 5, 500 ) The stadium was expanded to 16, 000-person capacity for the game.

* Aaron Hughes, current captain of the Northern Ireland football team and also plays for Fulham.

For the 2008 college football season, the scoring banner went back to a box on the top-left portion of the screen, featuring text in an athletic-like font, with similarities to the text style of Big Ten Network's and Fox's current graphic styling.

After a year playing football in the third tier, the club secured back to back promotions under the new and current management of Nigel Adkins.

* Roberto Martinez, footballer and current football manager

The campaign to eliminate the mascot resurfaced during the 2009 – 2010 school year, as the district renovated the high school's football field ; current plans call for a spear design in the center of the field.

The current white shirts and black shorts, introduced in 1931, were another tribute to the football club Odd.

* Urban Meyer, formerly the head football coach at the University of Florida, and current coach at The Ohio State University.

announced plans to relocate the club back to the site of the NSC from their current Selhurst Park home, redeveloping it into a 25, 000-seater, purpose-built football stadium.

Surbiton is the current home of both male and female football teams, Darkside FC, Surbiton Wanderers and Surbiton Town Ladies FC.

Tolworth is also the current home of several amateur football teams, Tolworth Athletic ( who play in the Surrey South Eastern Combination League ) and West London Blues.

* John L. Smith-renowned NCAA head football coach at Michigan State, Louisville, Utah State, Idaho, and the current head coach of University of Arkansas

* Kerry Meier, current NFL football player for the Atlanta Falcons

* Terry Robiskie, a former American football player and current wide receivers coach for the Atlanta Falcons.

* Brian Westbrook, former Villanova football star ( 1997 – 2001 ) and current running back for the San Francisco 49ers