Midwest Football League (1935-1937) American Football League (1938) APFA (1939)
Team history
Louisville Tanks (1935-1940)
Team colors
Green, Gold
Head coaches
H.M. "Harry" Reid
General managers
William H. Goepper[1]
Owner(s)
American Standard, Inc.
Other League Championship wins
MFL 1935-1937, AFL 1938
Named for
item sold by American Standard, Inc.
Home field(s)
Parkway Field
The Louisville Tanks were a minor league professional American football team that existed from 1935 to 1940. The team formed in the wake of the dissolution of the Louisville Bourbons of the short-lived American Football League of 1934. Organized and owned by American Standard, Inc., the team was coached by AS plant manager H.M. "Harry" Reed; its name and colors (green and gold) come from one of the products sold by American Standard.[2] The Tanks played their home games at Parkway Field in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
A charter member of the Midwest Football League (which evolved into the American Football League of 1938), the Tanks' first four seasons ended with league championships.[3] In 1939, after the AFL added the Cincinnati Bengals, Los Angeles Bulldogs (both formerly of the second major American Football League), and the Columbus Bullies (an independent team), the Tanks had the only losing season in their existence (1939), finishing in last place in the newly renamed American Professional Football Association.[3][4]
The APFA announced its intention to become a major league in early 1940 and added a team from Milwaukee, but its ambitious plans crumbled in July, when Cincinnati, Columbus, and the new Milwaukee team defected to a new major American Football League. The APFA was mortally wounded as Louisville and the Dayton Bombers announced that they would not field teams for the 1940 season. The Tanks, the Bombers, and the APFA did not return to the field.[3]
^All Those AFL's: N.F.L. Competitors 1935-1941 Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine - Bob Braunwort, American Pro Football Researchers Association (1979)
^John E. Kleiber, The Encyclopedia of Louisville (University Press of Kentucky 2001) ISBN 0-8131-2100-0
^ abcKenosha Cardinals: Life on the Fringe (1983) Archived 2006-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
^George Gipe, The Great American Sports Book (Doubleday 1978) ISBN 0-385-13091-0
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