Gathered in the grandstand, Bears fans were heartened to see a nun dressed in a brown habit and black wimple, over which was proudly worn a Cade McNown jersey. The nun also wore tennis shoes. Sunday afternoons are quite lively around the home. There was no question whose side Sister Emmanuel will be rooting for this season. Still, the rivalry between Chicago and Green Bay goes back a long way, nearly as long as the game itself has been played.
Football is what European and Latin American call soccer.
The first American intercollegiate football game was played by Princeton and Rutgers on Nov. 6, 1869. Rutgers won, 6-4, in what was actually a form of soccer, with 25 men on a team. Harvard and McGill fielded teams of 11 men, each of whom run with the ball as well as kick it. The game was off and running, and by 1889, the first All-American football team boasted a backfield and linemen selected from college varsity players nationwide by Yale athletic director Walter Chauncey Camp. Camp wrote the first football rule book in 1891.