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History of Football · 01
The Leagues
From the APFA's auto-showroom founding to the merger — who survived and why.
→The record of the American game — how the leagues, the rules, and the numbers got this way.
The American game's record, kept honestly
How the leagues formed, why the rules changed, and what the record book actually says — sourced from the primary record.
From 1869 to the seventeen-game season
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History of Football · 02
The Rules
Why the rulebook reads the way it does, one change at a time.
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History of Football · 03
The Records
Era-labeled records — including the ones that can never fall.
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