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Three years later, the team tried again, playing in the Ohio League from 1907 to 1919, not winning a championship, before becoming charter members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) which became the National Football League (NFL). The Panhandles are credited with playing in the first NFL game against the Dayton Triangles.
Jerry Corcoran assumed ownership of the team [1] [2] on behalf of the NFL and assumed management of the team. Cleveland was chosen because of the recent construction of their brand-new Cleveland Stadium ; at 83,000 seats, the massive stadium was by far the largest in the league, which was still regularly playing games in stadiums of under ...
Ohio Valley Redcoats (2005 split season between Marietta, Lorain and Lafayette, Indiana. Original Ohio Valley team from 1993 to 1998 was based in Parkersburg, West Virginia) [1] Canton Crocodiles (1997–2001, sold to group from Washington, Pennsylvania and are now the Washington Wild Things) [2] Canton Coyotes (2002) [3]
The Akron Pros were a professional football team that played in Akron, Ohio from 1908 to 1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, but later became Akron Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League (NFL) in 1922).
Ralph Edward Hay (January 12, 1891 – July 29, 1944) was the owner of the Canton Bulldogs from 1918 through the 1922 season. However, he is mostly recognized for organizing the first meeting of teams that would later form the American Professional Football Association, later called the National Football League (NFL).
New North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick listens to a question during a press conference announcing his hiring at the Loudermilk Center for Excellence at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C ...
Cofall helped re-organize the Cleveland team in 1919 and, along with O'Donnell attended the September 1920 meeting in Canton, Ohio that founded the American Professional Football Association, which became the NFL the following year. For the first half of the 1920 season, Cofall was the Tigers' player-coach; he was also elected vice-president of ...
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 ...