In 1920, the inaugural season of the National Football League (NFL), 11 veterans of Major League Baseball (MLB) (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders.
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas (1836), the first Anglo-American constitution to govern Texas, was drafted by a convention of fifty-nine delegates who assembled at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836 (see CONVENTION OF 1836).
The Texas Constitution of 1876 . The Constitution of 1866 did not go far enough for the Radical Republicans in Washington who were in charge of Reconstruction in the South. In 1868, another constitutional convention had to be called. After a wild session, the delegates adjourned without completing their work.