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The Pottstown Firebirds were a professional American football minor league team and member of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1968 to 1970. The Pottstown Firebirds played their home games at Pottstown High School stadium. In their final two seasons of existence in Pottstown (1969 and 1970), the Firebirds won the league championship.
The Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) was a professional American football minor league that operated from 1962 to 1973. Until 1969, many of its franchises had working agreements with National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) teams to serve as farm clubs. The league paid a base salary of $100 per game and had 36 ...
Like other coal towns in eastern Pennsylvania, Pottsville had been fielding football teams from at least the 1910s. [3] The team that became the Maroons was established in 1920 as the Pottsville Eleven, and had a roster mostly made up of firemen from the Yorkville Hose Company. The team was initially unaffiliated with any league, playing on the ...
Pennsylvania Professional Football League (1946–1949 ) [1] [2] Eastern Division Shamokin Indians [3] Pottsville Maroons [3] Shenandoah Presidents [3] Allentown Buccaneers [3] York Roses [3] Harrisburg Senators [3] Philadelphia Yellow Jackets [3] Western Division McKeesport-Duquesne Ironmen [4] New Kensington Alumineers [4] Johnstown Clippers ...
Eastern League of Professional Football (1926) Pacific Coast League, 1926; Eastern League of Professional Football, 1926–1927; Anthracite League, 1928–1929; Eastern Football League, 1932–1933; Became Interstate Football League in 1933. Greater New York League, 1934–1935; Originally the New Jersey Football Circuit (1934) American ...
While the practice of professional and semi-pro teams playing college and amateur teams was common in the 1880s and 1890s, most notably with the establishment of a coalition of teams that operated from 1886 to 1895 in the New York metropolitan area called the American Football Union, in the 20th century college and professional football began ...
James Sean Patrick "King" Corcoran (July 6, 1943 – June 19, 2009) was an American football quarterback who had a ten-year career as a journeyman in the Atlantic Coast Football League, Seaboard Football League, Midwest Football League, World Football League, and briefly in the American Football League.
World Football League (2008–2010) (3 P) Pages in category "Semi-professional American football" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.