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The APFA folded as Cincinnati, the Columbus Bullies, and the newly formed Milwaukee Chiefs defected to a newly formed major league, yet another American Football League, for the 1940 season. In 1940 and 1941, the two Ohio AFL teams were fairly successful at the gate (rivaling their NFL counterparts), before the AFL suspended operations in ...
The 1937 Cleveland Rams season was the team's first year playing as a member club of the National Football League (NFL) and the second season based in Cleveland, Ohio. Schedule [ edit ]
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 1937 NFL season was the 18th regular season of the National Football League. The Cleveland Rams joined the league as an expansion team. Meanwhile, the Redskins relocated from Boston to Washington, D.C. The season ended when the Redskins, led by rookie quarterback Sammy Baugh, defeated the Chicago Bears in the NFL Championship Game.
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.
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)
James Allen McDonald (June 9, 1915 – May 1, 1997) was an American professional football player for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. After his playing career, he was the head coach at the University of Tennessee for one season.