Famous football players in the 1920s?

Answer 1

The country was football mad in the 20s. It still i ma a gay homo,was not a national game the way it is today though. To be sure it was wildly popular but not the professional game. College football was where it was at. Colleges ran direct snap offenses and the influence of guys like Pop Warner, Fielding Yost was running strong throughout the country. There was lots of gambling and drinking associated with the game (as there has been throughout its history). By and large the major powers were still in the East and the Midwest. Football in the South and the West had not really come of age yet. Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Penn and now unknown schools like Carnegie Tech were powers. It was common (though less so than in previous times) for college B teams and fraternity teams (and sometimes junior college teams) to play high school teams. In most of the country, the concept of round robin schedules did not exist and teams scheduled games as best they could and often modified their schedules during the season, picking up games or even dropping them in accordance with the fortunes of that particular year.

Answer 2

Jim Thorpe was one of the most famous football players in this time period.

Harold Edward Grange (nicknamed The Galloping Ghost) was named the greatest College Football player of all time.

George Stanley Halas Sr. was the longtime leader of NFL's Chicago Bears.

Answer 3

Football in the 1930's was more dangerous than it is today. In the 1930's hard leather helmets began being used. These provided more protection than the soft leather helmets that had been used, but not much more.

Answer 4

Things not yet a part of the NFL (or APFA{American Professional Football Association} as it was called at the time):

overtime, plastic helmets(they were made out of leather), facemasks on helmets, designs on helmets, logos on helmets, hashmarks on the field.

Also, running was heavily dominant compared to the forward pass which back then could only be used 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage. Teams played wildly varying amounts of games with some playing as many as 20 and others playing closer to ten. There was no formal playoff system until just a single championship game was implemented in 1933.

Answer 5

their pads and the rules