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- On August 20, 1920, seven men, including legendary all-around athlete and football star Jim Thorpe, meet to organize a professional football league at the Jordan and Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio.
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The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio. It is the direct predecessor to the modern National Football League (NFL).
Sep 11, 2024 · The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio.
Nov 16, 2009 · On August 20, 1920, the owners of four Ohio League teams—the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians and Dayton Triangles—met to form a new professional league.
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The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio. It is the direct predecessor to the modern National Football League (NFL). Ohio League. Sport.
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The Akron Pros have been part of the NFL from the very beginning. They were one of 10 teams from four states representing regional leagues that met in Canton, Ohio, and formed the American Professional Football Association (APFA) on September 17, 1920. The league would be renamed the National Football League two years later, in 1922. Pros owner Art...
The Canton Bulldogs, another of the original ten AFPA teams, hold the NFL record of the most consecutive games played without a loss at 25 (including 3 ties), from 1921–23. The Bulldogs were NFL champions in 1922 and 1923. Without a doubt, the most famous player to play for the Bulldogs was Olympian Jim Thorpe, the first Native American to win a go...
The Cleveland Tigers were also one of the ten teams to join the APFA at the meeting in Canton in September, 1920. The Tigers did not enjoy much success in their first season, amassing only two touchdowns while compiling a record of 1–4–2. Because Cleveland’s baseball team was the Indians and three Native Americans, including Thorpe, were signed awa...
While they have zero NFL championships, the Columbus Panhandles are credited with playing in the first game in the newly minted APFA (later named the NFL) on October 3, 1920. That day the Panhandles lost 14–0 to the Dayton Triangles, at Triangle Park in Dayton. In the game, Frank Bacon of the Panhandles, was the first player in to return a punt for...
The Triangles 14-0 win over Columbus in that very first NFL game is the team’s claim to fame, but the high point of the Triangles’ 1920 season was a 20–20 tie at Triangle Park with Thorpe’s Canton Bulldogs. It was the first time a team had scored three touchdowns versus the Bulldogs since 1915. The Triangles are represented in the NFL Hall of Fame ...
On Sept. 17, 1920, representatives from 11 franchises, including the Dayton Triangles, gathered at Canton Bulldogs owner Ralph Hay’s Hupmobile auto showroom to organize the framework for the first professional football league. Initially known as the American Professional Football Association, it was renamed the National Football League in 1922.
The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1902 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship (OIC). As the name implied, its teams were mostly based in Ohio.
