1920-1921: Akron Pros 1922: Milwaukee Badgers 1923: Hammond Pros 1925: Hammond Pros, Providence Steam Roller, Akron Pros 1926: Akron Indians (the Akron Pros changed their name to Indians in 1926)
Fritz Pollard ... 1920-1921: Akron Pros 1922: Milwaukee Badgers 1923: Hammond Pros 1925: Hammond Pros, Akron Pros, Providence Steam Roller 1926: Akron Pros Bobby Marshall ... 1920: Rock Island Independents 1925: Duluth Kelleys
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There were actually four:26 September 1920 - the league team Rock Island Independents (won 48-0) against the nonleague St. Paul Ideals.3 October 1920 - league teams Wheeling Stogies and Akron Pros (0-43)1 October 1922 (name change from the American Professional Football Association to the National Football Association), the Columbus Panhandles and Akron Pros (0-36) and Hammond Pros and Buffalo All-Americans (0-7).
Mark Hammond
Yes. At one time there was a football game called, "The Pros vs The All Stars." It featured the best professional football team against the best college players graduating and going into the pros. The Pros usually won but sometimes the All Stars won. One year there was a strike and the game was cancelled. It never resumed.
The teams in the first season (1920) of the APFA: Akron Pros Buffalo All-Americans Canton Bulldogs Chicago Cardinals Chicago Tigers Cleveland Tigers Columbus Panhandles Dayton Triangles Decatur Staleys Detroit Heralds Hammond Pros Muncie Flyers Rochester Jeffersons Rock Island Independents
Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers, and Dayton Triangles were the four original teams. Rochester Jeffersons, Rock Island Independents, Hammond Pros, Muncie Flyers, Decatur Staleys, and the Racine Cardinals were added after the league was established. The Buffalo All Americans, Chicago Tigers, Columbus Panhandles, and Detroit Heralds were also added during the inaugural season. It was the American Professional Football Association until 1922 when it officially became the National Football League.
William M Dudley has written: 'How the pros play football' -- subject(s): Football
The Akron Pros were one of the founding teams in the NFL. The Pros started out as a semi-professional football club in 1908. There were then known as the Akron Indians. They played from 1908-1919 as the Indians. The Akron Pros were based in Akron, Ohio The Akron Indians changed their name to the Akron Pros in 1920, when they joined the APFA, the American Professional Football Association. The APFA was later named the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. The Akron Pros were one of the fourteen teams that founded the league. They played as the Akron pros from 1920-1925. In 1926, their final year of existence, the Akron Pros went back to their original name, the Akron Indians. The Pros were the first Champions of the APFA. They went 8-0-3 in 1920, and won the championship on the strength of their undefeated season.
Donald E. Gavit Jr./Sr. High School is located in Hammond, Indiana. Hammond is in Lake County, Indiana, adjacent to Chicago, Illinois, in the far northwest corner of the state. Donald E. Gavit Jr./Sr. High School is located in Hammond, Indiana. Hammond is in Lake County, Indiana, adjacent to Chicago, Illinois, in the far northwest corner of the state.