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The Northern Ohio League (NOL) was an OHSAA athletic league in north central Ohio that began competition in 1944 and disbanded in 2017 after six of its seven members joined the Sandusky Bay Conference. [1] [2] [3]
The football-only league dissolved in May 1952, prior to the 1952 football season. Distance and low gate receipts were cited as reasons for folding the league. Toledo Waite representatives also mentioned that having to play conference newcomer Toledo Macomber in the Toledo City League would have made it impossible for them to continue playing ...
National Football League, 1902; Ohio Independent Championship (Ohio League), 1903–1919 [23] Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, 1907–1959 [24] New York Pro Football League, c. 1913–1920 [25] American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [26] 1927–1928
The Indy Kaps moved to the Northern States Football League (NSFL) after the 1978 season to become the Indianapolis Caps again. [184] [185] The Kalamazoo All-Stars and Wyoming Cobras also joined the NSFL by 1980. [186] The Lansing Capitals withdrew from the league in 1979, [187] and opted to join the Michigan Charity Football League in 1980. [188]
In 1941, there was a resurgence in pro football in Ohio, as local teams tried to form a new professional league called The Ohio Professional Football League (also known as Ohio Valley League). [17]
They were considered the ninth-best semi-pro team in the country in 1977. [19] They remained in the league for the 1978 season, [20] competing in the South High School stadium in Youngstown and coached again by Boggia. [19] During the 1979 season, the Hardhats were considered ninth in the country for minor league football teams. [21]
On a smaller scale, Ohio hosts minor league baseball, arena football, indoor football, mid-level hockey, and lower division soccer.. The minor league baseball teams include Triple-A East's Columbus Clippers (affiliated with the Cleveland Guardians) and Toledo Mud Hens (affiliated with the Detroit Tigers), Double-A Northeast's Akron RubberDucks (affiliated with the Guardians) and the High-A ...
The league was one of the most successful minor leagues in history, playing eight seasons in eleven years, while claiming to be the highest level minor football league of the era. Unlike most pro-football minor leagues, the Dixie League had a relative stable membership until the Pearl Harbor attack forced the league into hiatus. The league ...