Birth of a League: 1920 Canton Gathering Creates Future NFL

Birth of a League: 1920 Canton Gathering Creates Future NFL

September 17
1920 — The National Football League was born in the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio. Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Dayton from the one-month-old American Professional Football Conference joined Hammond, Muncie, Rochester, Decatur, Racine and Rock Island to form the American Professional Football Association (which was eventually re-named the National Football League in 1922).

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