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Hammond Pros
Founded
1917
Suspended
1926
Based in
Hammond, Indiana, United States
League
National Football League
Team history
Hammond Pros (1920–1926)
Team colors
Purple, gold, white
Head coaches
Hank Gillo (1920) Max Hicks (1921) Wally Hess (1922–1924) Fritz Pollard (1925) Doc Young (1925)
Owner(s)
Paul Parduhn Doc Young
Home field(s)
Cubs Park
The Hammond Pros were an American football team from Hammond, Indiana that played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team.
The 1920 HammondPros season was the franchise's inaugural season in the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and second as an American football...
The 1926 HammondPros season was their seventh and final season in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 1–4, losing all their...
The 1922 HammondPros season was their third in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 1–3–1, losing five games. They tied...
The 1921 HammondPros season was their second completed in the young American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team failed to improve on their...
The 1924 HammondPros season was their fifth in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 1–5–1, winning two games. They finished tenth...
The 1923 HammondPros season was their fourth in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 0–5–1, winning one game. They finished fifteenth...
pro football performance. Fritz also coached the Gilberton Cadamounts, a non-NFL team. In 1923 and 1924, he served as head coach for the HammondPros...
1920–22 (two home games out of 22 played) HammondPros – 1920–24 (one home game out of 24; became Akron Pros in 1925) Rochester Jeffersons – 1920, 1925...
Racine Cardinals, the Massillon Tigers, the Chicago Cardinals, and the HammondPros agreed to join the league. Representatives of the Buffalo All-Americans...
that began as independent teams, or as members of the Ohio League, New York Pro Football League, and other defunct leagues are shown as well. The American...
boxer. He played one game in the National Football League (NFL) for the HammondPros. Catalano did not attend college. "Ferocious Italian Recalls Knockout...
wins and were not beaten by the Akron Pros. However, since the Akron Pros had a 1.000 winning percentage, the Pros were awarded the Brunswick-Balke Collender...
the Hammond All-Stars (1917), HammondPros (1919), Racine/Chicago Cardinals (1920–1925), and Chicago Bears (1926–1929). He was the NFL's first All-Pro quarterback...
HammondPros, 3–0, the very next week. That win was Hammond's first win in the league. During that game, Herb Henderson later stated that the Hammond...
December 13, 1948) was a professional American football player for the HammondPros of the National Football League between 1921 and 1925. A tackle, he attended...
of the National Football League (NFL). He was also the owner of NFL's HammondPros from 1920 until 1926. He was also a respected medical doctor and sports...
week 11, the Pros traded Bob Nash, in the first trade in APFA history. A meeting was held by the APFA to determine a winner, and the Pros' season concluded...
within four states: Akron, Canton, Cleveland, and Dayton from Ohio; the HammondPros and Muncie Flyers from Indiana; the Rochester Jeffersons from New York;...
season in the American Professional Football Association (APFA) with the HammondPros. "MOSE BASHAW". profootballarchives.com. Retrieved March 18, 2015. Just...
franchises were ultimately revoked. Five defunct NFL franchises (the Akron Pros/Indians, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Bulldogs/Indians, Frankford Yellow Jackets...
first black quarterback when he started playing the position for the HammondPros in 1923. By that time, he had already become the first Black head coach...
an institution. Records of pro football being played on Thanksgiving date back to as early as the 1890s, with the first pro–am team, the Allegheny Athletic...