Career
After his signing of Grange in 1925 and Grange"s becoming a star for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), Pyle founded the first New York Yankees football team When Pyle"s application for the Yankees joining the NFL was rejected, he announced the formation of the first American Football League in 1926. The league lasted one season before folding.
In 1926, Pyle signed Lenglen and several of the best tennis players in the world to start the first professional tennis tour, which traveled throughout the United States. and Canada.
Two years later, he inaugurated the first Transport-American Footrace, known as the Bunion Derby, an ambitious, 3455-mile-long foot race from Los Angeles, California, to Chicago, Illinois, to New New York While the 1928 race was not a financial success, Pyle organized a 1929 "return" along essentially the same route, but from New York to Los Los Angeles
After managing the "Ripley"s Believe lieutenant or Not" exhibit in the Chicago World"s Fair, Pyle married comedian Elvia Allman Tourtellotte in 1937. He became president of the Radio Transcription Company, a position that he held until his death of a heart attack in Los Angeles, February 3, 1939.