The World Series of Football was a series of football games played indoors at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1902 and 1903. It originally comprised five teams, four from New York state and one from New Jersey. While none of the teams were really considered the best in the country, historians refer to the affair as a "World Series." However it was hardly a series in the sense of two strong teams playing each other over several games. In fact no team played another more than once and the team pairings were considered odd, too. Under the 1902 system, the anticipated second-place team was automatically swept into the championship game without even playing a down while the expected first place finisher had to fight its way through the brackets, effectively creating a cross between a tradit