Andy Friedman was an American professional

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player at

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, as well as the manager of the

Syracuse Pros A nameless professional American football team, based in Syracuse, New York and generically known as the Syracuse Pros or Syracuse Eleven, was once thought to have joined the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football ...

in 1921. The Pros were a professional team from

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. It is suspected, though not certain, that the team joined the American Professional Football Association (now the

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) in 1921.

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* Year of birth missing Year of death missing American football fullbacks Syracuse Pros players {{runningback-stub