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Washington Senators, also referred to as the Washington Pros or Washington Presidents, was a professional football club from Washington, D.C. The team played for one season in the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League) during the 1921 season. Afterward, it continued to operate as an independent football ...
This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game for defunct National Football League franchises. This list contains franchises sorted alphabetically from "Hammond Pros" to "Washington Senators".
The stadium was still called Griffith Stadium in 1961, even though team owner Calvin Griffith had moved the original Senators club to the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis-St. Paul (becoming the Minnesota Twins), to be replaced in Washington by a new expansion team, also called the Senators (now the Texas Rangers).
When it opened, D.C. Stadium hosted the Redskins, the Senators, and the GWU Colonials football team, all of whom had previously used Griffith Stadium: the GWU Colonials shut down their football team at the end of the 1966 season, while the Senators moved to Dallas-Fort Worth at the end of the 1971 season, and became the Texas Rangers, playing ...
Washington Senators (1901–1960), an American League team that became the Minnesota Twins Washington Senators (1961–1971) , an American League team that became the Texas Rangers Washington Nationals (disambiguation) , other baseball teams based in Washington, D.C.
The Senators moved and were replaced with an expansion Washington Senators team for 1961. The old Washington Senators became the new Minnesota Twins; the expansion Senators would become the Texas Rangers in 1972, and baseball would not return to the city until 2005, when the former Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Redskins President Bruce Allen said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Saturday that the football team's nickname is "respectful" toward Native Americans. On ...
In January 2022, the team announced that it would choose between the names Armada, Presidents, Brigade, Red Hogs, Commanders, RedWolves, Defenders and the then-current "Football Team". [22] The new name, the Washington Commanders, was announced on February 2, 2022. [23]