NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime

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Notes Chapter 1. The First Pros 1. PFRA Research, “Forward into Invisibility 1920,” www.profootballresearchers. org; Marc Maltby, The Origins and Early Development of Professional Football (New York: Garland Publishers, 1997), 199. 2. Robert W. Peterson, Pigskin: The Early Years of Pro Football (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 16–17; and Keith McCellan, The Sunday Game: At the Dawn of Professional Football (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1998), 23–27. 3. PFRA Research, “Out in the Boondocks Westmoreland County Leads the Pros: 1897,” www.profootballresearchers.org. 4. PFRA Research, “Five Hundred Reasons Football’s First Pro: 1892,” www.profootball researchers.org. 5. PFRA Research, “Ohio Tiger Trap Ohio’s First Football Ringers: 1903,” by Bob Carroll, www.profootballresearchers.org, and Bob Carroll, Michael Gershman, David Neft, and John Thorn, eds., Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (New York: Harper and Collins Publishers, 1999), 8–9; Mark Maltby, Origins and Early Development, 108–9 and 125. 6. PFRA Research, “Blondy Wallace and the Biggest Football Scandal Ever: 1906,” and “Shelby Who? 1910,” www.profootballreseachers.org; Carroll et al., Total Football II, 9–11. 7. PFRA Research, “Out in the Boondocks,” www.profootballresearchers.org. 8. McCellan, Sunday Game, 3–15. 9. Ibid., 15. 10. Ibid., 16–31. 11. Ibid., 18–23. 12. Ibid., 24–27. 13. PFRA, “Twilight, 1919.” 14. Carroll et al., Total Football II, 14: Will McDonough et al., 75 Seasons: The Complete Story of the National Football League, 1920–1995 (Atlanta: Turner Publishing and National Football League Properties, 1994), 23–24. 15. Joe Horrigan, “National Football League Franchise Transactions,” The Coffin Corner 4 (1982): 1–2. Crepeau_text.indd 219 7/1/14 11:29 AM 220 n o t e s t o c h ap t e r s 1 a n d 2 16. PFRA, “Forward into Invisibility 1920”; Maltby, Origins and Early Development, 199. 17. Robert W. Peterson, Pigskin: The Early Years of Pro Football (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 70–74. 18. PFRA, “Once More, With Feeling 1921”; McDonough et al., 75 Seasons, 25–28; Jeff Davis, Papa Bear: The Life and Legacy of George Halas (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005), 50, 53, 57, 62–63. 19. Ernest L. Cuneo, “Present at the Creation: Professional Football in the Twenties ,” American Scholar 56 (Autumn 1987): 488; Bill Gates, “Papa Bear,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1976, C1. 20. McDonough et al., 75 Seasons, 28–29. 21. Cuneo, “Present at the Creation,” 491; John Carroll, Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), vii–viii, 1–9, and 40–41. 22. Carroll, Red Grange, 92–97, direct quotes from 97. 23. Ibid., 102. 24. Michael Oriard. King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio & Newsreels, Movies & Magazines, The Weekly & The Daily Press (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 104–5. 25. Carroll, Red Grange, 107–10. 26. Ibid., 111–13. 27. Ibid., 113–26; Bob Carroll, “Red Equals Green 1925,” PFRA. 28. Carroll, Red Grange, 126–27, 132. 29. Ibid., 133–39; Bob Carroll, “The Grange War 1926,” PFRA; Horrigan, “National Football League Franchise Transactions,” 6–8. 30. Carroll, Red Grange, 141–44; Hensley, “NFL Competitors”; Horrigan, “National Football League,” 8–9; Don Smith, “Here’s Your Hat 1927,” PFRA. 31. Smith, “Here’s Your Hat 1927”; Bob Carroll, “Giants on the Gridiron,” PFRA; Oriard, King Football, 105; Carroll, Red Grange, 125–26; Craig Coenen, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: The National Football League, 1920–1967 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005), 62–69. 32. Bob Carroll, “Giants on the Gridiron.” 33. Bob Carroll and John Hogrogian, “Steamrollered 1928,” Coffin Corner 31, no.1 (2009): 7–11; Coenen, From Sandlots, 51. 34. Chuck Frederick, Leatherheads of the North: The True Story of Ernie Nevers and the Duluth Eskimos, (Duluth, Minn.: X-Communication, 2007), 2–4. 35. Ibid., 11–25 and 35–55. 36. Ibid., 58–60. 37. Ibid., 104–8. 38. Ibid., 62–66; Coenen, From Sandlots, 12–14. 39. Frederick, 116–20. Chapter 2. Depression and War 1. Joe Horrigan, “National Football League Transactions,” PFRA, The Coffin Corner 4 (1982): 9–14; McDonough et al., 75 Seasons, 60. Crepeau_text.indd 220 7/1/14 11:29 AM 221 n o t e s t o c h ap t e r 2 2. Stephen Hensley, “NFL Competitors: 1926–1975,” PFRA, The Coffin Corner...