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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 Rochester Jeffersons finished 6–2–1 in their 1919 season. [3] It lost the NYPFL championship to the Buffalo All-Americans. [4] After the 1919 season, representatives of four Ohio League teams—the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Dayton Triangles, and the Akron Pros—called a meeting on August 20, 1920, to discuss the formation of a new league.
The 1923 Rochester Jeffersons season was their fourth in the league. The team equaled their previous output of 0–4–1, going 0–4. [1] They tied for nineteenth place in the league. They allowed at least 50 points in back to back games in Weeks 1 and 2, the only NFL team to do so until the 2014 Chicago Bears did so in Weeks 8 and 10.
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An action photo from the Rochester Jeffersons game against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds in New York on Nov. 11, 1925. New York won 13-0 in the Jeffersons final season in the NFL.
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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