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The Empire Football League (EFL) is a semi-professional American football league with franchises based primarily in New York State.The league was established in 1969. Many franchises have come and gone including in locations such as Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Connecticut as well as Quebec, Montreal, and Ontario in Canada.
The league was one of the most successful minor leagues in history, playing eight seasons in eleven years, while claiming to be the highest level minor football league of the era. Unlike most pro-football minor leagues, the Dixie League had a relative stable membership until the Pearl Harbor attack forced the league into hiatus. The league ...
Eastern League of Professional Football (1926) Pacific Coast League, 1926; Eastern League of Professional Football, 1926–1927; Anthracite League, 1928–1929; Eastern Football League, 1932–1933; Became Interstate Football League in 1933. Greater New York League, 1934–1935; Originally the New Jersey Football Circuit (1934) American ...
While there are various semi-professional football leagues, none have any affiliation with the National Football League (NFL). The NFL and its teams have had working relationships with several independent leagues in the past, including the Association of Professional Football Leagues, the Atlantic Coast Football League, and most recently, the league owned-and-operated NFL Europe.
The Peoria Punishers semipro adult 8-man football team is headed to Minnesota to play for a national title on the Minnesota Vikings field.
The Watertown Red & Black is a semi-professional American football team based in Watertown, New York.The team is the oldest active semi-pro football team in the United States, [1] and can trace its history to 1896, although the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) claimed it was founded as an Athletic Club in 1899. [2]
World Football League (2008–2010) (3 P) Pages in category "Semi-professional American football" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit was a loose association of American football clubs that operated from 1890 to approximately 1940. Originally amateur, professionalism was introduced to the circuit in 1892; cost pressures pushed the circuit to semi-professional status from about 1920 through the rest of its existence.