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The 1975 World Football League season was the second and last season of the World Football League. The 1975 season was to be an 18-game season over a twenty-week schedule. The WFL returned with a massive overhaul under new commissioner, Christopher Hemmeter.
The World Football League (WFL) was an American football league that played one full season in 1974 and most of its second in 1975.Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, only one team – the Hawaiians in Honolulu, Hawaii - was headquartered outside of continental North America.
He was named league president in 1975, and sold the Hawaiians to jewel merchant Edward Sultan Jr. Though lasting for less than two seasons of play, the Hawaiians represented a serious attempt to form a viable professional football organization, one that at least had the potential for success had the WFL been better run.
The Blazers were one of two teams, the other being the Detroit Wheels, to outright fold after 1974 with no direct replacement in their markets in 1975 (not counting teams that moved midseason). Only one expansion team would be added, with Norman Bevan buying the franchise rights and establishing a team in San Antonio.
The Vulcans, founded in March 1975, played in the upstart league's second and final season in 1975. The team was owned by a group of Birmingham businessmen with Ferd Weil as team president. The Vulcans replaced the Birmingham Americans who had held the WFL franchise for Birmingham in 1974, winning World Bowl I in December 1974 before suffering ...
The Steamer returned for the 1975 WFL season with a different coaching staff. Right from the start, both the "Boats" and the resurrected league struggled. (The second Chicago franchise, the Chicago Winds, unrelated except by venue to the previous year's Chicago team, the Chicago Fire, ceased operations on September 2, after five games.)
Former USC greats Anthony Davis and Pat Haden played for the Sun in 1975, along with former Oakland Raiders QB Daryle Lamonica, also known as the "Mad Bomber." The Sun won the 1974 Western Division title but lost their playoff game against the Hawaiians when three of their best players– Kermit Johnson , James McAlister , and Booker Brown ...
August 9, 1975 Hawaiians: L 24–25 7,709 3 Sunday August 16, 1975 at Chicago Winds: L 18–25 3,501 4 Sunday August 23, 1975 Shreveport Steamer: W 33–24 6,576 5 Sunday August 30, 1975 at San Antonio Wings: L 0–22 12,197 6 Saturday September 6, 1975 Birmingham Vulcans: L 8–26 6,342 7 Saturday September 13, 1975 at Philadelphia Bell: W 25 ...