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The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team that played in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945.The Rams competed in the second American Football League (AFL) for the 1936 season and the National Football League (NFL) from 1937 to 1945, winning the NFL championship in 1945, before moving to Los Angeles in 1946 to become the first of only two professional football champions to play the ...
The Cincinnati Bengals were a short-lived professional football team that played in Cincinnati, Ohio.It is unrelated to the current Cincinnati Bengals.Originated by Hal Pennington (who was also the team's first head coach and general manager), [1] the team was formed as a member of the second American Football League in the 1937 season.
Cleveland Tigers (NFL) APFA (1920), originally named as the Tigers in 1916 [1] in the Ohio League; renamed Indians in 1921; Cleveland Indians (NFL 1931), league-sponsored team that only played on the road; Cleveland Bulldogs NFL (1924–1925) (1927), named as the Cleveland Indians in 1923; Cleveland Panthers AFL (1926)
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]
After being turned down for the NFL for the 1937 season, the Bulldogs joined the AFL and became the first professional football team to play its home games on the West Coast. Averaging 14,000 in attendance for its home games in Gilmore Stadium , the Bulldogs were drawing twice as many fans per game as the rest of the league.
The Midwest Football League was formed in 1935 with George J. Heitzler as president and James C. Hogan as secretary-treasurer. [1] [2] [3] Like the National Football League in its first year, it was a loose assemblage of teams from the American Midwest, with teams representing Cincinnati, Dayton, Indianapolis, Louisville, Columbus, Ohio, and Springfield, Illinois.
An Ohio high school football coach says he was forced to resign by his school district and intended no harm to opposing players after he and his team repeatedly used “Nazi” as a game call in a ...
4 September 26 at Brooklyn Dodgers: L 7–9 1–2 Ebbets Field: 12,000 Recap: 5 October 3 Chicago Cardinals: L 0–6 1–3 League Park 10,000 Recap: 6 October 10 Chicago Bears: L 2–20 1–4 League Park 5,000 Recap: 7 October 17 Green Bay Packers: L 10–35 1–5 League Park 12,000 Recap: 8 October 24 at Green Bay Packers: L 7–35 1–6 City ...