The American Football Conference began as the American Football League. It was formed in 1970.
The 49ers began play in 1946 in the All-America Football Conference. They joined the NFL in 1950.
In short, they didn't. (The upshot answer is in boldface type in the last paragraph.) The fuller story is this.The original Big East teams were schools that were seeking a competitive NCAA Division I basketball conference. Almost all of the original (1979) member schools were Catholic institutions located in Eastern seaboard states and Washington, DC: Boston College (MA), Providence (RI), St. John's (NY), Seton Hall (NJ) and Georgetown (DC). The other two original members were Syracuse (NY) and Connecticut, both non-Catholicschools. Villanova(PA), a Catholic school joined in the conference's second year. Pittsburgh (PA), a non-Catholicschool joined in the conference's fourth season. Other schools were added through the years, both Catholic and not.By the turn of the century, the economics of college athletics had brought about the need to provide a competitive program for those schools also fielding Division I football teams. This led to the inclusion of other schools, some Catholic and some not. The additional schools often were not even in the Eastern seaboard states. Some of the member schools opted to leave the Big East for conferences that were already competitive in both basketball and football (e.g.,Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference)In 2012, as the few remaining schools in the Big East with Division I football teams began accepting offers from other established conferences, the conference was left with a defactodispersal. Since original Catholicmembers Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and Georgetownwere among those not leaving for another conference and fellow Catholic member schools Marquette, DePauland Villanovawere in the same situation, they opted to return to the conference's original concept as a Division I basketballconference and reasonably claimed title to the name of that conference. To bolster the conference's strength, those schools have invited a few other similar schools to join-- and for the most part, Catholic colleges don't field Division I NCAA teams.
The original Cleveland Browns joined the NFL in 1950, coming from the All-America Football Conference along with the San Francisco 49ers. The current Browns franchise began playing in 1999, after Art Modell moved the original Browns to Baltimore after the 1995 season.
The Charlottetown Conference began on September 1st, 1864.
Manetho began keeping records in the third dynasty of Egypt
Manetho began to keep records in the third dynasty of life.
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No. South Dakota State University began a transition to Division 1 in 2004. In football, SDSU is a Division 1-AA school that plays in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and in basketball, they play Division 1 in the Summit League.
At the point when football began, until anyone scored a goal, nobody was the leading goal-scorer.
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