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Ohio League. 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).
They were considered the ninth-best semi-pro team in the country in 1977. [19] They remained in the league for the 1978 season, [20] competing in the South High School stadium in Youngstown and coached again by Boggia. [19] During the 1979 season, the Hardhats were considered ninth in the country for minor league football teams. [21]
Atlantic Indoor Football League (2005) American Indoor Football League (2006) American Indoor Football Association (2007–10) Sport: Indoor football: Founded: 2005: First season: 2005: Motto: Fast-Paced Family Fun: No. of teams: 2 (as of October 12, 2024) Country: United States: Most recent champion(s) Columbus Lions (2nd AIF title) Most titles
Maroon, White [2] Head coaches. Guil Falcon. Home field (s) Armory Park (1902–1908, 1923) Swayne Field (1909–1922) The Toledo Maroons were a professional American football team based in Toledo, Ohio in the National Football League in 1922 and 1923. Prior to joining the NFL, the Maroons played in the unofficial "Ohio League" from 1902 until ...
Ohio is home to major professional sports teams in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, volleyball, and soccer.The state's major professional sporting teams include: Cincinnati Reds (Major League Baseball), [1] Cleveland Guardians (Major League Baseball), [2] Cincinnati Bengals (National Football League), [3] Cleveland Browns (National Football League), [3] Cleveland Cavaliers (National ...
The Akron Pros were a professional football team that played in Akron, Ohio from 1908 to 1926. The team originated in 1908 as a semi-pro team named the Akron Indians, but later became Akron Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League (NFL) in 1922).
The Triangles went 8–0–0 in 1918, one of two known teams to have collected a perfect record of more than five games that year, the other being the Buffalo Niagaras, whose 6–0–0 record was collected as a result of playing only teams from Buffalo and who built their team on many of the players left out of work because of the Ohio League ...
A fabricated betting scandal, coupled with a lack of competitive games and increasing price tags, effectively ruined the Ohio League by 1907. Professional football took a step back as the Ohio League relied more on local, cut-rate talent, such as player-promoter George Parratt, and its Pennsylvania counterpart also steered clear of major spending.