August 22

Here is what happened in Football History on August 22: the naming of the new American Football League, the grand opening of Lincoln Financial Field, All-Star games, Argos returners running wild, and CSI evidence. We remember the people and events that made the gridiron a great sport. We will provide you with a little bit of football nostalgia. This early team football history segment features the Great events, Franchise formations, and the stories of these long-forgotten teams in some cases that helped shape the arena of American pro football into what it is today.

• August 22, 1947 - The Chicago College All-Star game is played as the Chicago Bears win over the college stars 16-0 at their home stadium, Soldier Field. Claude Young the running back out of the nearby University of Illinois was the game's MVP, for the college stars.
• August 22, 1948 - The 15th edition of the Chicago College All-Star game is played at the Windy City's Soldier Field. The Hometown Chicago Cardinals, champions of the NFL, soundly defeated their young opponents 28-0 with a large crowd of 101,220 looking on. The games MVP, always a College All-Star,  was none other than runningback Jay Rodemeyer from the University of Kentucky.
• August 22, 1949 - Chicago College All-Star game pitted Champion Philadelphia Eagles against the college players in a 30-0 route by the champs. Notre Dame's offensive line stalwart, Bill Fischer, was named the All-Stars game MVP.
• August 22, 1958 - The CFL had a record field goal return when Toronto Argonauts had two returners combine for 131 yards as Boyd Carter ran 15 yards and then lateralled the ball to teammate Dave Mann who scurried for the additional 116 yards to paydirt in a thrilling 15-14 win over the Montreal Allouettes in Toronto.
• August 22, 1959 - The American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas as the charter members; LA, Houston, Dallas , Denver, Minneapolis-Saint Paul and New York met to discuss the formation.
• August 22, 1988 - Former NBC football commentator, Bob Costas gets his own show on the network called, "Later".
• August 22, 1994 - Former Buffalo Bills and USC Trojan running back, O.J. Simpson is linked to the murder of his wife Nicole and friend Ron Goldman by the use of DNA evidence.
• August 22, 2003 - Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA opens in a preseason game pitting the New England Patriots aganst the home town favorite Philadelphia Eagles.

• August 22, 1876 - Henry Seibels was a halfback from The University of the South, Sewanee Academy. This acedemic institution is a small Episcopal school of higher learning located in the small town of Sewanee nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. The stud back is forever remembered int he College Football Hall of Fame. Seibels was the captain of the famed undefeated Seawanee Tigers team of 1899 where they had a 6 day road trip and won 5 shutout victories over the likes of Texas A&M, LSU, Tulane, Ole Miss and Texas!
• August 22, 1899 - Don Lourie was a former quarterback of the Princeton Tigers. In 1974 the famed QB was honored by enshrinement in the College Football Hall of Fame. He was a 1920 consensus All-American as a junior and even won a track and field championship in Great Britain. Lourie intitated one fo the most famous early audibles in football against Yale when in a tight game he called out the check with me to turn a field goal attempt into a fake and he ran the ball to paydirt. Walter Camp would later say of Lourie that he was a great field general who could decipher what the opposition was doing and adapt his team's play to counter it. After football Mr. Lourie was the president of the Quaker Oats Company.
• August 22, 1909 - Mel Hein was a Washington State center who entered into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Hein was also a great pro player in the NFL for the New York Football Giants. He was also enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963 and was selected to the 50th, 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams. Hein was an All-Pro in 8 consecutive seasons from 1933 through 1940.
• August 22, 1941 - Bill Parcells is the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach who led the NY Giants to two Super Bowl Championships. Parcells is famous for his no nonsense style of coaching as he led not only the Giants, but also coached the Jets, Patriots, Cowboys and in the front office of the Dolphins for a time.
• August 22, 1956 - Wes Chandler was a wide out for the Florida Gators who in 2015 was also selected to enter the College Football Hall of Fame. Chandler made it in the NFL as well playing for the San Diego Chargers and stands receiver with the 12th most yards of all time for yardage catching the ball.

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