Earl Seick (1940) Orlando Nesmith (1940-41) Paul Engebretsen (1941)
Owner(s)
Buffalo American Legion
Home field(s)
Civic Stadium
The Buffalo Indians were a professional American football team that competed in the third American Football League in 1940 and in 1941. The team played its home games in Civic Stadium in Buffalo, New York. Owned by the Buffalo American Legion, the Indians were managed by Earl "Red" Seick, who was also player-coach for the team for the first five games in 1940 (he was replaced by Orlando Nesmith for the rest of the season).[1][2][3] While most of the AFL membership focused on raiding the rosters of the local members of the National Football League teams, the Indians (which did not have a local NFL competitor) concentrated on signing local talent, castoffs from the NFL, and men who played in the defunct second American Football League.[1]
Featuring the running talents of halfback Carl Littlefield, the Indians struggled to a 2-8 record in 1940 (having been shut out four times and forfeited one game; they also won one game by forfeit) and finished in fifth place. The club was reorganized in early 1941, with a new name (Buffalo Tigers) and a new coach (Tiny Engebretsen).[1][2] The changes yielded the same results once league play resumed that fall, Buffalo finishing with a 2-6 record and fourth place in the five team loop[1] before the AFL suspended operations after the Pearl Harbor attack and the U.S. entry into World War II.[4][5]
By the time the war ended, both the league and the Buffalo Tigers officially ceased to exist, but Buffalo's foray into major league football was not forgotten as the All-America Football Conference formed in 1946 with a new team, the Buffalo Bisons, being the new tenants in the newly renamed War Memorial Stadium.[2]
^ abcdIndians Occupy Faded Spot in Buffalo's Football Scrapbook Archived November 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – Joe Marren, Professional Football Research Association (1997)
^ abcWhen the Indians Roamed Buffalo's Gridiron Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – Connie McGillicuddy, Professional Football Research Association (2000)
^History of Professional Football in Western New York Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine - www.billsbackers.com
^David L. Porter, ed., Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press 1987) ISBN 0-313-25771-X, p. 142
^George Gipe, The Great American Sports Book (Doubleday 1978) ISBN 0-385-13091-0
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