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The Rochester Jeffersons were an American football team based in Rochester, New York from 1898 to 1925. The team was a founding member of the National Football League (NFL), in which they played from 1920 to 1925.
The 1920 Rochester Jeffersons season was the franchise's inaugural season in the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and thirteenth as an American football team. The Jeffersons entered 1920 coming off a six-win, two-loss, two-tie (6–2–2) record in the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL) where it lost the championship game to ...
Walter Scott "Jack" Forsyth (May 4, 1892 – December 19, 1966) was a professional football coach for the Rochester Jeffersons of the American Professional Football Association (restructured as the National Football League in 1922). As coach of the Jeffs from 1919 through 1921, Forsyth is remembered by sports historians as one of the first head ...
But all is back to normal in Rochester after the Rockets punched their ticket for a ninth time for the final football weekend with a 42-14 win over Murphysboro in the Class 4A semifinals on Saturday.
Monroe and East/WOI hope to extend their football seasons further than any RCSD team has gone before with wins in the NYS semifinals.
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The team, one of the fourteen original teams in the National Football League, ceased operations after the 1925 season. Owner Leo Lyons, one of the founders of the NFL, ran out of money when the Jeffersons failed to draw sufficient crowds to attend their games. Because of a league-sanctioned suspension of operations, the team was still ...
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