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The Falcons franchise began play as the Frankfort Falcons in 1962, finishing with a 1–9 record in their first season in the ACFL. In their first season, the Falcons were coached by Frank Sanders. After the 1962 season, the franchise was moved to Herkimer, New York and renamed to the Mohawk Valley Falcons
Aug. 24—SHORT GAP, W.Va. — If you had told Kevin Whiteman before the 2022 season that his Falcons would host a state semifinal game, he'd had laughed at you, he said. And yet, for the third ...
1966 game program. The Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) was a professional American football minor league that operated from 1962 to 1973. Until 1969, many of its franchises had working agreements with National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) teams to serve as farm clubs. The league paid a base salary of $100 per ...
As well as having a flourishing XC team, the track teams are also among the top in the area, and the girls' track team were state champs in 2013. [10] Frankfort also has an impressive football program headed by Coach Kevin Whiteman. The Frankfort Falcons beat the Keyser Golden Tornados 32-14 at the 2022 Mineral Bowl. [11]
The Giants first game in franchise history came against the Rhode Island Steelers, the farm club of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). [5] The game was played in Lowell and resulted in a dominant win for the Giants, who won in a 21–0 shutout. In the 1966 season, the Giants had an extremely promising inaugural ...
Notable semi-pro players include Johnny Unitas, who played quarterback, safety, and punter on a Pittsburgh suburb team called the Bloomfield Rams for six dollars per game before joining the Baltimore Colts; [139] Eric Swann, who played for the Bay State Titans in the Boston suburb of Lynn and was the first, and so far the only, player to be ...
The team often played 15 to 20 games a season. Frequently, they would schedule two games on the same weekend, typically one at home on Saturday and, because of Pennsylvania's blue laws, an away game on Sunday. In their first game as a member of the NFL, the Yellow Jackets defeated the Rochester Jeffersons 21–0. Frankford finished the season ...
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