Akron Pros

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The Akron Pros were a National Football League team that played in Akron, Ohio from 1920–1925 and as the Akron Indians in 1926. The Pros won the first NFL championship in 1920, though at the time the league operated as the American Professional Football Association.

The team started out in 1916 as the Akron Burkhardts, named after a local family of brewers that sponsored the team. From 1917 the team competed as the Akron Pros. The Pros were a charter member of the APFA.

Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921. Paul Robeson played for the team in 1921 as well. In 1926, the name was changed to the Akron Indians, after an earlier Akron semi-pro team. Due to financial problems, the team suspended operations in 1927 and surrendered its franchise the following year.

W L T Finish Coach
Akron Pros
1920 8 0 3 1st Elgie Tobin
1921 8 3 1 3rd Elgie Tobin, Fritz Pollard
1922 3 5 2 10th Untz Brewer, Paul Sheeks
1923 1 6 0 15th Dutch Hendren, Carl Cramer
1924 2 6 0 13th Jim Flower
1925 4 2 2 5th George Barry, Fritz Pollard
Akron Indians
1926 1 4 3 16th F Pollard, Al Nesser, Rube Ursella
Totals 27 26 11
Defunct National Football League franchises
1920s Chicago Tigers (1920) | Cleveland Tigers/Indians (1920-21) | Muncie Flyers (1920-21) | Rochester Jeffersons (1920-25) | Rock Island Independents (1920-25) | Akron Pros/Indians (1920-26) | Canton Bulldogs (1920-26) | Columbus Panhandles/Tigers (1920-26) | Hammond Pros (1920-26) | Detroit Heralds/Tigers/Panthers/Wolverines (1920-28) | Buffalo All-Americans/Bisons/Rangers (1920-29) | Dayton Triangles (1920-29) | Cincinnati Celts (1921) | New York Giants (Brickley's) (1921) | Tonawanda Kardex (1921) | Washington Senators (1921) | Evansville Crimson Giants (1921-22) | Louisville Brecks/Colonels (1921-23, 1926) | Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets (1921-24, 1929-31) | Oorang Indians (1922-23) | Toledo Maroons (1922-23) | Racine Legion/Tornadoes (1922-24, 1926) | Milwaukee Badgers (1922-26) | St. Louis All Stars (1923) | Cleveland Indians/Bulldogs (1923-27) | Duluth Kelleys/Eskimos (1923-27) | Kenosha Maroons (1924) | Kansas City Blues/Cowboys (1924-26) | Frankford Yellow Jackets (1924-31) | Pottsville Maroons/Boston Bulldogs (1925-29) | Providence Steam Roller (1925-31) | Brooklyn Lions (1926) | Hartford Blues (1926) | Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926) | New York Yankees (1927-28) | Orange/Newark Tornadoes (1929-30) | Staten Island Stapletons (1929-32)
1930s Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers (1930-44) | Cleveland Indians (1931) | Cincinnati Reds (1933-34) | St. Louis Gunners (1934)
1940s-50s Boston Yanks (1944-48) | Baltimore Colts (1950) | New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949-51) | Dallas Texans (1952)
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