Edward Francis "Max" Hicks (November 6, 1892 – November 12, 1944) was a professional

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player and coach in the early

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(NFL)–then called the American Professional Football Association (AFPA). He played in 1920 for 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 ...

and later served the team as a player-coach in 1921.

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