According to the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football - or soccer as it is known in North America - is played by upwards of 240 million people worldwide. Records ...

First, the TL/DR version: The birth of American football came in 1869 on College ... Virginia University and Pittsburgh University made history, as the game was the first to be broadcast across ...

Fritz Pollard was the first Black head coach in pro football history. He led the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association, later renamed the NFL, in 1921. (Dave Pickoff/AP ...

Kinney Holbrook joined the Hawkeye football team in 1895, becoming the first African-American athlete in the history of the University of Iowa and the first documented black college athlete in the ...

It's hard to ignore the connections between Marcus Freeman's fate as he tries to make history in Monday night and all that's ...