The origin of professional football is traced to an iconic Minnesotan born just 10 blocks north of where Super Bowl LII will be played on Sunday. William (Pudge) Heffelfinger arrived Dec. 20, 1867 in ...

When Walter William Heffelfinger, son of a Minneapolis boot & shoe manufacturer, presented himself as a freshman at Yale in the fall of 1888, football coaches eyed him approvingly. His, they quickly ...

After attending high school in Minneapolis, William (Pudge) W. Heffelfinger enrolled at Yale University in 1888. Over the next four years, he earned letters in four sports. He competed on the track ...

The story of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger and the birth of professional football 120-plus years ago is now fairly well known. Heffelfinger was paid $500 to play one game for the Allegheny Athletic ...

Last year when Yale’s Larry Kelley sighed, “Gee, I’m sorry my career is over,” he echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his ...

Did you know America's favorite sport started professionally in November more than a century ago on a field in Pittsburgh? What was supposed to be an amateur game in 1892, turned into a bidding war ...