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The 1920 Buffalo All-Americans season was the franchise's inaugural season with the American Professional Football Association (APFA), an American football league, and fifth total as a team. The All-Americans entered 1920 coming off a 9–1–1 record in 1919 as the Buffalo Prospects in the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL).
Buffalo, New York had a turbulent, early-era National Football League team that operated under multiple names and several different owners between the 1910s and 1920s. The early NFL-era franchise was variously called the Buffalo All-Stars from 1915 to 1917, [1] Buffalo Niagaras in 1918, [2] the Buffalo Prospects in 1919, [3] Buffalo All-Americans from 1920 to 1923, Buffalo Bisons from 1924 to ...
The league counted the All-Americans game in the standings, against Buffalo's wishes, resulting in Buffalo (9–1–2) and Chicago (9–1–1) being tied atop the standings. The league then implemented the first ever tiebreaker: a rule, now considered archaic and removed from league rulebooks, that states that if two teams play multiple times ...
The 1921 NFL Championship controversy, known among Buffalo sports historians and fans as the Staley Swindle, is a dispute in which the Buffalo All-Americans unintentionally surrendered the 1921 APFA Championship title to the Chicago Staleys (later renamed the Chicago Bears).
the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL, 1916–1919); the American Professional Football Association and the National Football League (NFL, 1920–present); the All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946–1949); the American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969); the World Football League (WFL, 1974–1975); the United States Football League ...
1915 Buffalo All-Stars season; 1916 Buffalo All-Stars season; 1917 Buffalo All-Stars season; 1918 Buffalo Niagaras season; 1919 Buffalo Prospects season; 1920 Buffalo All-Americans season; 1921 Buffalo All-Americans season; 1922 Buffalo All-Americans season; 1923 Buffalo All-Americans season
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The following players saw action in at least one NFL game as a member of the Buffalo All-Americans. [13] Total number of NFL games played in 1922 follows in parentheses. Linemen. Bill Brace (10) Herb Dieter (9) Gus Goetz (7) Charlie Guy (10) Glenn Knack (1) Frank Morrissey (10) Bob Nash (2) Frank Spellacy (1) Carl Thomas (9) Luke Urban (9) Jim ...