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Millville Big Blue
Millville Football & Athletic Club also known as the Millville Big Blue was a professional football team based in Millville, New Jersey from 1921 until around 1928. The team won the mythical "Pro Football Championship of New Jersey" in 1923 and again in 1925. At end of the 1925, several members of the Big Blue traveled to Florida to play a series of exhibition games. After a game against the Tampa Cardinals, a team put together by the legendary Jim Thorpe, they took the name Haven-Villa of Winter Haven. During their time in Florida, the Big Blue comprised a 5-0-1 record. Pro Football Hall of Fame *Guy Chamberlin Other notable players *Punk Berryman * Rae Crowther * Leo Douglass * Gyp Downey * Carroll "Ginny" Gooch *Two-Bits Homan * Ben Jones *Elmer McCormick * Dinty Moore *Daddy Potts *Swede Youngstrom Adolf Frederick "Swede" Youngstrom (May 24, 1897 – August 5, 1968) was a professional football player. Over the span of his career in the National Football League, Youngstrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millville, New Jersey
Millville is a city in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the city's population was 28,400,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data for Millville city, Cumberland County, New Jersey , . Accessed December 15, 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-Bits Homan
Henry "Two-Bits" Homan (June 7, 1898May 11, 1953) was a professional American football player. Homan was a college stand-out at Lebanon Valley College where he played quarterback and graduated in 1924. He gained his nickname of "Two Bits" due to his size. Standing at 5′5″ and weighing in at an average 150 lbs throughout his playing day, Homan was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League. Homan joined the NFL in 1925 with the Frankford Yellow Jackets and played his whole career with them until 1930. Though one of the lesser known NFL players, he was one of the most popular Yellow Jacket players. The Yellow Jackets, with Homan, would go on to win the 1926 NFL Championship. Homan also played football with the independent Millville Football & Athletic Club, a professional football team based in New Jersey in 1925. The team won the mythical "Pro Football Championship of New Jersey" that year. In January 1926, Homan and several other members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct American Football Teams In New Jersey
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American Football Teams Disestablished In 1928
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American Football Teams Established In 1921
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Professional American Football Teams In New Jersey
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Swede Youngstrom
Adolf Frederick "Swede" Youngstrom (May 24, 1897 – August 5, 1968) was a professional football player. Over the span of his career in the National Football League, Youngstrom played with the Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Bulldogs and the Frankford Yellow Jackets. He also served as a player-coach for the Yellow Jackets in 1927. Outside of the NFL, Youngstrom played pro football for the Millville Big Blue and the Haven-Villa of Winter Haven. The Professional Football Researchers Association notes of Youngstrom's career that “He was, quite possibly, the best guard of his era, considering that the only guards in the Pro Football Hall of Fame who played during the 1920s—Mike Michalske and Walt Kiesling—actually played the majority of their careers in the 1930s.” Early career Swede's first exposure to football came during his time at Waltham High School. The school's football team practiced after classes. Youngstrom then sought his par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daddy Potts
Robert Crockett "Daddy" Potts (August 16, 1898 – August 11, 1981) was an player. He played professionally in the (NFL) for the in the . Potts won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets. Outside of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinty Moore (American Football)
Walter Stanley "Dinty" Moore (September 30, 1903 - April 1978) was a professional football player from New York City. He attended and played college football for Lafayette College and made his National Football League debut in 1927 with the Pottsville Maroons The Pottsville Maroons were an American football team based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in the northeastern part of the state. Founded in 1920, they played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1925 to 1928. In 1929 they relocated to Bosto .... He played only one season for the Maroons before ending his NFL career. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Dinty 1903 births 1978 deaths Lafayette Leopards football players Pottsville Maroons players Millville Football & Athletic Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer McCormick
Elmer Francis McCormick (October 27, 1898February 4, 1951) was an American football player. He played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a center for the Buffalo All-Americans (1923), Buffalo Bisons (1924–1925), Frankford Yellow Jackets The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a professional American football team, part of the National Football League from 1924 to 1931, although its origin dates back to as early as 1899 with the Frankford Athletic Association. The Yellow Jackets won ... (1925), and Hartford Blues (1926). He was selected as the first-team center on the 1924 All-Pro Team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:McCormick, Elmer 1898 births 1951 deaths Players of American football from Hartford, Connecticut American football centers Detroit Titans football players Hartford Blues players Frankford Yellow Jackets players Buffalo All-Americans players Buffalo Bisons (NFL) players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Jones (halfback)
Benjamin Franklin Hanser Jones (March 18, 1899 – May 17, 1929) was a professional football player during the early years of the National Football League (NFL). Jones won an NFL championship with the Canton Bulldogs in 1923, one with the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1924, and another with the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1926. He finished his career with the Chicago Cardinals in 1928. Jones died on May 17, 1929, at the age of 30. The cause of death was due to gas inhalation after he was exposed to an explosion at a clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 15, 1929. According to a front page article in the ''Simpson Times Leader'' in Ford City, Pennsylvania, on May 22, 1929, Jim Thorpe, the former All-American football player, attended his funeral. Jones is buried at Woodland Cemetery, located in Grove City, Pennsylvania Grove City is a borough in southeastern Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States, located approximately north of Pittsburgh and south of Erie. At the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Gooch
Ginny or Ginnie is an English feminine given name or diminutive, frequently of Virginia. People Virginia * Ginny Arnell (born 1942), American singer and songwriter born Virginia Mazarro *Ginny Blackmore (born 1986), New Zealand singer and songwriter *Ginny Brown-Waite (born 1943), American politician *Ginny Burdick (born 1947), American politician * Ginnie Crawford (born 1983), American sprinter *Ginny Duenkel (born 1947), American former swimmer and 1964 Olympic champion * Ginny Fiennes (1947-2004), British explorer and wife of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes *Virginia Gilder (born 1958), American former rower * Virginia Grayson (born 1967), New Zealand-born Australian artist *Virginia Leng (born 1955), British equestrienne * Virginia "Ginny" Montes (1943–1994), civil rights activist and feminist *Ginny Owens (born 1975), contemporary Christian music singer *Ginny Simms (1913-1994), American singer and actress * Ginny Stikeman, Canadian filmmaker, director, producer and editor *Ginny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
