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The Decatur Staleys finished 6–1 in their 1919 season as an independent team. [2] Their 1919 owner, George Chamberlain, asked George Halas to manage the team, and Halas accepted. [ 3 ] After the 1919 season, representatives of four Ohio League teams—the Canton Bulldogs , the Cleveland Tigers , the Dayton Triangles , and the Akron Pros ...
The 1919 Decatur Staleys season was the first in the team's long existence, later becoming known as the Chicago Bears.It was also the only season in which the Staleys/Bears were an amateur team, not a member of the National Football League or managed by George Halas.
The Decatur Staleys, the organization that eventually became the Chicago Bears, were originally founded as a works team of the A. E. Staley food starch company of Decatur, Illinois, in 1919; [1] this was the typical start for several early professional football franchises. The team played independently in 1919, winning the Central Illinois ...
FRANCHISES: The first season, 1920, the American Professional Football Association had 14 teams, including two Tigers (Cleveland and Chicago). The Akron Pros, Decatur Staleys (later the Chicago ...
The club has had few official logos throughout their history. When the team was known as the Decatur Staleys in 1920, they used A. E. Staley's logo as football was intended to help promote the company. [180] The first Chicago Bears logo was introduced in 1940, depicting a black bear running with a football.
The players on both teams worked as semi-professionals in his factory. The football team, nicknamed the Decatur Staleys and headed by a coach named Brennan, competed on the independent circuit in 1919; after losing its first game, the team won six in a row to go 6–1. [20]
The Chicago Bears franchise was founded as the Decatur Staleys, a charter member of the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1921 and changed its name to the Bears in 1922, the same year the APFA changed its name to the National Football League (NFL).
This category is all National Football League players who played for the Decatur Staleys.There are separate categories for each era of the franchise: Category:Decatur Staleys players (1919-1920) Category:Chicago Staleys players (1921) Category:Chicago Bears players (1922-) Players should be included in each category that applies.