The Gary Elks were an Independent
American football
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team that played four seasons. From 1920 to 1923.
1920
They 1920 season was their first season. They started the season with a 40–0 win over
Forest Park Othello A.C. The win followed with 4 more wins until there was a 0–0 tie against the
Chicago Thorn Tornadoes.
They played their next game against the
Hammond Pros
The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team.
History
The Pros were established by local businessman Paul Parduhn and Dr. Alva Young. Young, a boxing promoter and owner of ...
, an
APFA team. They won the game 7 to 6.
They played their first six games at
Emerson High School Field, before they moved to
Gleason Park
Gleason may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Gleason, Tennessee, a town
* Gleason, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Gleason, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Films
* ''Gleason'' (2002 film), a television film starring ...
.
They finished the season with a 8-0-1 record.
1921
They opened the 1921 season with wins against the
Evanston Washington Parks,
Morocco Independents,
Chicago Staym-Foresters
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Chicago Thorn-Tornadoes before losing their first ever game against
Chicago Amos A.A. They had three more wins before losing to the
APFA Chicago Cardinals
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They won the week prior against the
Hammond Pros
The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team.
History
The Pros were established by local businessman Paul Parduhn and Dr. Alva Young. Young, a boxing promoter and owner of ...
, who they beat the year before.
The next week they lost their third game of the season to the
Chicago Morris Supremes.
1922
In 1922 they had a 6-2-1 record.
They had scheduled to play 4 games against
NFL opponents but only played two; they played two games against the
Hammond Pros
The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team.
History
The Pros were established by local businessman Paul Parduhn and Dr. Alva Young. Young, a boxing promoter and owner of ...
, who they had played in prior years.
They won one of the games against the Pros, winning it 9-6 after losing 15-0 the prior game.
They played all but one of their games at
Gleason Park
Gleason may refer to:
Places in the United States
* Gleason, Tennessee, a town
* Gleason, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Gleason, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Films
* ''Gleason'' (2002 film), a television film starring ...
.
1923
1923 was their last season. They had a 2-2-2 record excluding the game against the
Waukegan Elks where no records were found.
They had scheduled 3 games against
NFL opponents but only played one; a 7–6 loss against the
Cleveland Indians
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.
References
American football teams established in 1920
American football teams disestablished in 1923
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