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Boston Bulldogs (AFL)
The Boston Bulldogs were a professional American football team that competed in the first American Football League in 1926. Owned by Robert McKirby, the Bulldogs lasted only six games into the AFL season, playing one home game in Braves Field and one in Fenway Park.1926 American Football League from Elias Sports Bureau and Pro Football Research Association Linescore Committee Coached by , the majority of the team played their college football in |
Bill Cronin (fullback)
William Cronin (December 5, 1901 – March 16, 1956) was an American football fullback who played three seasons with the Providence Steam Roller of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boston College and attended Hingham High School in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was also a member of the Boston Bulldogs of the American Football League (AFL). Early years Cronin played high school football for the Hingham High School Harbormen. He started the Harbormen hockey team in the early 1940s. He was inducted into the Hingham High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. College career Cronin played college football for the Boston College Eagles. Professional career Cronin played for the Boston Bulldogs of the AFL in 1926. He played for the Providence Steam Roller of the NFL from 1927 to 1929. Personal life Cronin's brother Jack Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Lowe
George Henry "Bulger" Lowe Jr. (June 21, 1895 – February 18, 1939) was an American football player, coach, and official. He played professionally as a Tackle (gridiron football position), tackle and End (gridiron football), end for five seasons with the Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Tigers (NFL), Cleveland Indians, Providence Steam Roller, and Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League (NFL) and the Boston Bulldogs (AFL), Boston Bulldogs of the American Football League (1926), first American Football League.. In 1909, Lowe started his football career as a 14-year-old, playing Guard (gridiron football), guard for Arlington High School (Massachusetts), Arlington High School. He attended Fordham University and was a captain of the 1917 Fordham Maroon football team. Lowe served with the United States Army Ambulance Service in France in World War I. He was wounded and hospitalized in France. Lowe was the first player from Fordham to play professional football, when in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Hagenbuckle
Vern is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Vernon, Lavern or other names. People named Vern include: * Vernon Vern Bakalich (1929–2015), New Zealand rugby league player * Verdi Vern Barberis (1928–2005), Australian weightlifter * Vernon Vern Buchanan (born 1951), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida * Vern Bullough (1928–2006), American historian and sexologist * Vernon Vern Burke (born 1941), American former National Football League player * Vernon Vern Clark (born 1944), former US Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations * Lavern Vern Corbin, American college basketball player (1926–1929) * Vernon Vern Countryman (1917–1999), American Harvard Law School professor and social critic * Vern Den Herder (born 1948), American retired National Football League player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Vern Fleming (born 1962), American former National Basketball Association player * Vern Fonk (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park was a baseball park in Chicago, Illinois, located in the Armour Square neighborhood on the near-southwest side of the city. The stadium served as the home of the Chicago White Sox of the American League from 1910 through 1990. Built by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey and designed by Zachary Taylor Davis, Comiskey Park hosted four World Series and more than 6,000 Major League Baseball games. Also, in one of the most famous boxing matches in history, the field was the site of the 1937 heavyweight title match in which Joe Louis defeated then champion James J. Braddock in eight rounds that launched Louis' unprecedented 11-plus year run as the heavyweight champion of the world. The Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League also called Comiskey Park home when they were not playing at Normal Park, Soldier Field or Wrigley Field. They won the 1947 NFL Championship Game over the Philadelphia Eagles at Comiskey Park. Much less popular than the Bears, the Cardinals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Island Independents
The Rock Island Independents were a professional American football team, based in Rock Island, Illinois, from 1907 to 1926. The Independents were a founding National Football League franchise. They hosted what has been retrospectively designated the first National Football League game on September 26, 1920 at Douglas Park. The Independents were founded in 1907 by Demetrius Clements as an independent football club. Hence, the team was named the "Independents." In 1926, the Independents left the NFL to become a charter member of the first American Football League, the only NFL team to do so. The Independents then folded along with the entire league in 1927. Pro Football Hall of Fame alumni Jimmy Conzelman (1920–1921), Joe Guyon (1924), Ed Healey (1920–1922), Duke Slater (1922-1926), and Jim Thorpe (1924–1925) played for the Independents. History Early history One of the first professional football teams, the Independents were founded in 1907 by Demetrius Clements as an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Panthers
The Cleveland Panthers were a professional American football team. They were an independent team founded in 1919 from the remains of the Youngstown Patricians. The Panthers played, with various degrees of success, continuously from 1919 and eventually, as fewer opponents played them each year after 1926, sputtered to a quiet folding in 1933. The first American Football League (AFL) The Panthers competed in the first American Football League (AFL), founded by Charles "Cash and Carry" Pyle (1882–1939), in 1926. The Panthers, owned by General Charles X. Zimmerman (1865–1926) (the vice president of the AFL),"A.F.L. Fields Nine Teams", ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1926 played their home games in old Luna Bowl in Luna Park. Coached by Ray E. Watts, the team drew its players from Ohio colleges and universities and raided the rosters of early National Football League (NFL) teams based in Ohio David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen, and Rick Korch, ''The Football Encyclopedia: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newark Bears (AFL)
The Newark Bears were a professional American football team that competed in the first American Football League in 1926 AFL season. Owned by the New Jersey Athletic Association (headed by NJAA president William Coughlin), the Bears played their home games in Davids' Stadium. Coached by player-coach Hal Hansen, the majority of the team played their college football in Georgia and Florida. Tailback Doug Wycoff scored the club’s only points in its existence, having a touchdown run and kicking the extra point to tie the Chicago Bulls in both teams’ opening game of the season. While the Bears’ defense was respectable (yielding only five points per game), the lack of offensive production resulted in a record of no wins, three losses, and two ties. While the Bears played in front of (an announced total of) 40,000 spectators in Philadelphia (a 9-0 loss to the Quakers on October 16), the total attendance for three home games in Newark was less than 5000. After only 400 fans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Bulls (AFL)
The Chicago Bulls were a professional American football team that competed in the first American Football League in 1926. Owned by Joey Sternaman (brother of Chicago Bears co-owner Dutch Sternaman), the Bulls also had AFL founders C. C. Pyle and Red Grange as shareholders (Pyle and Grange were also the co-owners of the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Wildcats of the AFL). Joey Sternaman was also the coach and blocking back for the Bulls throughout their brief existence. The newly minted Bulls had adverse effects on the more established NFL. First, the Bulls leased Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago Cardinals to play in the (older and much smaller) Normal Field. Second, the Bulls made an offer for Cardinals star Paddy Driscoll that the reigning NFL champions could not match (Cardinals owner Chris O'Brien arranged a trade with the Bears, who ''did'' match the Bulls' offer to Driscoll, keeping him in the established league but knocking the Cardinals out of championship cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Wildcats (AFL)
The Los Angeles Wildcats (also reported in various media as Pacific Coast Wildcats, Los Angeles Wilson Wildcats and Wilson's Wildcats) was a traveling team of the first American Football League that was not based in its nominal home city but in Chicago, Illinois (it trained in Rock Island). Coached by Jim Clark, the team was designed to be a showcase for University of Washington star back George “Wildcat” Wilson. Compared to most traveling teams in professional football, the Wildcats were successful, compiling a 6–6–2 record in the only season of the team's – and the league's – existence. Origin The existence of the Wildcats began with the 1926 formation of the American Football League by C. C. Pyle, a sports agent who represented star back Red Grange. Pyle's application for a National Football League franchise in New York was rejected because Tim Mara, owner of the New York Giants, objected to Pyle's proposed intrusion into the Giants’ territory. Armed w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Yankees (NFL)
The New York Yankees were a short-lived professional American football team from 1926 to 1929. The team was a member of the first American Football League in 1926, and later the National Football League from 1927 to 1929. They played their home games at Yankee Stadium. The team featured Red Grange at halfback. History Challenge to the NFL The Yankees arose as a result of a contract dispute between Grange and his previous team, the NFL's Chicago Bears. During the early 1920s, Grange was the star attraction for the Bears, and his play had done a lot to promote the fledgling NFL. However Red's agent C. C. "Cash and Carry" Pyle challenged the Bears owner George Halas in 1926, by stating that Red's contract was owned by himself, and not Halas. Pyle then approached Halas to demand for Grange a generous salary and one-third ownership of the Bears. Halas refused. Pyle then took his quest for an NFL franchise to the NFL's 1926 winter meeting. There he showed to the other owners th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Grange
Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimate the National Football League (NFL). In college, Grange was a three-time consensus All-America and led his team to a national championship in 1923. He was the only consensus All-America running back in 1924 who was not a member of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. The same year, Grange became the first recipient of the ''Chicago Tribune'' Silver Football award as the Big Ten Conference's most valuable player. In 2008, Grange was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network. Shortly after his final college game in 1925, Grange joined the Bears and the NFL, embarking on a barnstorming tour to raise the lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
