The first NFL player to rush for 1,000 yards was Beattie Feathers. He set the record in 1934 as a player for the Chicago Bears when he rushed for 1,004 yards.
Roger Craig of the 1985 San Francisco 49ers. He rushed for 1050 yards and had 1016 receiving yards.
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No, that rule has been in college football for a long time but has never been adopted by the NFL.
yes. You must make the team first though.
WR Jerry LeVias of SMU in the 1966 season. Actually, the first was John Westbrook at Baylor University: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwe60
College football season normal starts before the NFL season does. College is normally 3 weeks into their season before the pros start.
The first football season started in 1887.
Bobby Bowden from Florida State, was the first college football coach to earn $1 million for a season in 2001.
Howard Twilley with 134 pass receptions in 1965 for the University of Tulsa.
In the first week of September. Go Tigers!
Played for the USF Bulls First Football Team 1996-2000. In Tampa bay he was known as the Dump Truck. First USF running back to score double digit touch in a season. Was the college Mike Alsott.
The first black football player in the SEC played for The University of Tennessee
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Frank "Silent Frank" Hinkey was the first player inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 1951 and was an end for Yale University.
Troy Aikman began his college career during the 1984 season at The University of Oklahoma.
The first championship was held in 1998 after the end of the college football season and is now considered the Super Bowl of college football. More information can be obtained from ESPN College Football, Prime Sport, or Bowl Championship Series.
Their first season began in 1897. Their first game was against Racine College at White Stocking Park in Chicago