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Profiles of the most famous players of the era -- including Pudge Heffelfinger (the first certifiable professional), Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, and Fritz Pollard (the NFL's first black star) -- bring the history of the game to life. Peterson also takes us back to the roots of the pro game, showing how professionalism began when some stars for Yale, Harvard, and Princeton took money -- under the table, of course -- for their services to alma mater. By 1895, the money makers -- still unacknowledged -- had moved to amateur athletic associations in western Pennsylvania and subsequently into Ohio.   After the NFL formed in 1920, pro football's popularity grew gradually but steadily. It burst into national prominence with the Bears-Redskins championship game of 1940. As one sportswriter put it: \"The weather was perfect. So were the Bears.\" The final score was 73-0. Peterson shows how, after World War II, the newly-created All America Football Conference challenged the NFL. 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