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Dec 24, 2023
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This is the sixteenth in a series looking back at “100 Years of Football,” syndicated cartoons published by Jerry Brondfield and Charles Beck in 1969. Today's version covers the development of pro football until the 1960s.


Planned for New Brunswick, the College Football Hall of Fame was never built there and eventually found a home outside Cincinnati, then South Bend, and has since moved to Atlanta. Hopefully, this current location will be its last.

(Brondfield & Beck, '100 Years Of Football,' Alabama Journal (Montgomery), December 29, 1969.)

While the cartoon from 1969 indicated that John Brailler was the first professional football player, the evidence now shows that Pudge Heffelfinger received $500 in 1892 to play a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association, making him the first professional football player.

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