Filmmaker Working to Bring Beginning of NFL to Life

Award-winning filmmaker Allen Farst is writing and producing a movie about the beginnings of the National Football League and the first game in NFL history played on Oct. 3, 1920. The move, "Triangle Park" is set in Dayton, Ohio, and is planned for a fall release. Farst began filming for the movie the last week of April, and is receiving a lot of support for the film which he hopes will reach a worldwide audience. Photo courtesy Allen Farst

DAYTON, OHIO - Award-winning filmmaker Allan Farst is getting ready to charge past the 50-yard line and bust through the end zone of bringing to life on the movie screen one of Dayton, Ohio’s, most unsung stories.The feature documentary is titled Triangle Park, the place where the Dayton Triangles played the Columbus Panhandles in the first National Football League game on Oct. 3, 1920.

The Triangles beat the Panhandles, 14-0, recording the first win in NFL history.