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The only weakness I felt the book had was that it constantly gave lists of stats, win-loss totals, league leaders and so on. I felt that this constant list of fact and figures to be dull. Even numbers that were probably vital seemed unimportant when listed amongst what seemed to be endless wasted ink.

Despite college football’s resentment of the idea of professional football the APFA continued to grow through the 1920’s. In June 1922 the APFA was renamed the National Football League as it is still known today. The NFL had its first official star in the winter 1925 when Harold E. (Red) Grange decide to play for the Chicago Bears after a highly contested recruiting war between the Bears and the New York Giants. Grange was a star at the University of Illinois and a mythical figure in the state at the time. As the book put it, “ (Red) Grange could not walk on water, but you would have had a hard time convincing the student body at the University of Illinois in 1925 (85).” The next star of the NFL would also be the league’s first black star, Fritz Pollard of the Akron Pros. In 1933 black players disappeared from the NFL for 12 years, assumeably by a gentleman’s agreement between owners that never appeared on paper.

One of the things I enjoy most about the book Pigskin was the great quotes of the men who lived through the youth of professional football. These quotes appeared on almost every page and added a very interesting flavor to the book. They offered an excellent point of view, as you never had to simply take the author’s word for the story. Some proved to be very entertaining, some offered an ideas that you couldn’t conceive without being a first hand witness, and some you had to question if the story had gotten a little tall after being told over and over again for 50 years. A great example of all these is a quote from Bob Snyder, a Bears quarterback commenting on George Halas:

“But Halas was awfully good about certain things, too. On one occasion, I lost a baby boy on the morning of a Green Bay game in 1939...

What is now known as the NFL began at a meeting in a Canton, Ohio car dealership owned by Ralph E. Hay on September 17, 1920. It given the name American Pro

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