🏈 College vs. NFL | Sports Daily Newsletter

There once was a time when players in the NFL and college faced off in a preseason game. From 1934 to 1976, the annual Chicago Charities College All-Star game featured an NFL team that won the league championship and had many of its starters play against college football’s best athletes.In this day and age, that’s a crazy concept to consider. Although the playing field and athletic abilities are likely to be evenly matched, most NFL starters don’t even play in preseason games. It’s too much of a risk.But the Eagles once played in the event in 1949, 1950, and 1961, and actually came up short in the 1950 game, which included a former Villanova standout.Kerith Gabriel turns back the clock to look back on an event known for proving ground for college players to see if they could handle the rig