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	Akron Pros - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Akron Pros was a team in that played in Akron, Ohio in the National Football League from 1920-1925 and as the Akron Indians in 1926.
		The Pros became charter member of the new American Professional Football Association APFA in 1920.They won the 1920 league title.
		Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Akron_Pros (177 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		Akron not only had the best record in 1920, but apparently unknown to the record manual folks, the Pros were officially awarded the crown.
		Akron fans actually began to consider the possibility of a championship team, but they had to wait to see their heroes in action when a scheduled meeting with the Detroit Heralds was rained out.
		Akron savored its 1.000 percentage, but they were not officially the APRA champs until April 30, 1921.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=akron20 (1601 words)

	NFL.com - NFL History
		Pro football was in a state of confusion due to three major problems: dramatically rising salaries; players continually jumping from one team to another following the highest offer; and the use of college players still enrolled in school.
		An organizational meeting, at which the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles were represented, was held at the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio, August 20.
		The teams were from four states-Akron, Canton, Cleveland, and Dayton from Ohio; the Hammond Pros and Muncie Flyers from Indiana; the Rochester Jeffersons from New York; and the Rock Island Independents, Decatur Staleys, and Racine Cardinals from Illinois.
	www.nfl.com /history/chronology/1911-1920 (629 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pro Football Hall of Fame is actually the National Football League's Hall of Fame.
		Through 2005, all but one of the inductees played some part of their pro career in the NFL.
		The lone exception is Buffalo Bills guard Billy Shaw, who played his entire career in the American Football League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame (324 words)

	History of American Football - Origin of Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and Dayton Triangles were represented.
		The teams were from four states:Akron, Canton, Cleveland, and Dayton from Ohio, the Hammond Pros and Muncie Flyers from Indiana, the Rochester Jeffersons from New York, and the Rock Island Independents, Decatur Staleys, and Racine Cardinals from Illinois.
		In 1921, at the league meeting in Akron, the championship of the 1920 season was awarded to the Akron Pros, as the only undefeated team in the Association in 1920.
	www.nfl-rumors.com /history.htm (607 words)

	Totally NFL: This is how it all began, back in the day
		The first World Series of pro football, actually a five-team tournament, was played among a team made up of players from both the Athletics and the Phillies, but simply named New York; the New York Knickerbockers; the Syracuse AC; the Warlow AC; and the Orange (New Jersey) AC at New York's original Madison Square Garden.
		Pro football was popularized in Ohio when the Massillon Tigers, a strong amateur team, hired four Pittsburgh pros to play in the season-ending game against Akron.
		1921At the league meeting in Akron, April 30, the championship of the 1920 season was awarded to the Akron Pros.
	rollinjcaswell.blogspot.com /2005/03/this-is-how-it-all-began-back-in-day.html (20034 words)

	Akron Pros
		The team competed as the Akron Indians in 1926.
		Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, coached the Pros.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ak/Akron_Pros.html (61 words)

	Frederick Douglass 'Fritz' Pollard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He eventually decided to join an upstart Midwest football league after college and his first NFL team, the Akron Pros, did not lose in the first 19 games in which Pollard played (15-0-4), outscoring the opposition, 236 to 7.
		The next year he was installed as the Pros' head coach and the team won its first seven games (all shutouts), before injuries to the team's stars, including Pollard himself, caused the team to trail off, ending the season at 8-3-1.
		Pollard began with Akron Pros, which became part of the APFA in 1920...
	www.fritzpollard.com (1600 words)

	Bilingual Education Pros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That same year, the Pros became charter member of the new American Profe 7: t year they won the championship, in 1922 the Pros finised third.
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		Hymn to FreedomImnos pros tin Eleftherian (A hymn dedicated to freedom) < 131: The Greek Cypriot economy is pros perous but highly susceptible to external shocks.
	www.daikaiju.com /edge/38112-bilingual%20education%20pros.html (745 words)

	FRITZ POLLARD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He played college football at Brown_University and later played professional football with the Akron_Pros, the team he would lead to NFL (APFA) championship in 1920.
		In 1921, he became the co-head coach of the Pros, while still maintaining his roster position as running_back.
		Akron 1921 Served as co head coach with Elgie Tobin
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Fritz_Pollard (199 words)

	Cincinnati Celts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By the end of the first half, the Pros were leading 14-0.
		In the third quarter, the Pros went on to tack on 3 more touchdowns, while holding the Celts to 0 points.
		Akron closed out the game with a couple field goals in the fourth quarter and shut out the Celts 41-0.
	www.cincysports.net /Celts.htm (441 words)

	Four Inducted Into Football Hall of Fame - New York Times
		Towns was on the podium, his back to 50 old and new Hall of Famers, to give voice to his family's relief that his grandfather, Fritz Pollard - one of the first two fl players in the National Football League, and its first fl coach - had finally found a home at the hall.
		Pollard began his career with the Akron Pros in 1919 before they joined what would become the N.F.L. and became their coach in 1921.
		Actually, in recent years, Pollard became the namesake for a group that pushes for greater hiring of African-American coaches and general managers in the N.F.L. The Fritz Pollard Alliance, in turn, pushed for Pollard's election to the hall, to correct what it saw as one of the worst omissions in league history.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/08/08/sports/football/08hall.html?ex=1281153600&en=bc729fc07508f693&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1091 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		As a member of the new league, Pollard immediately earned a place in pro football history as one of just two African Americans in the new league. In 1921 he earned another distinction becoming the first African American head coach in NFL history when the Pros named him co-coach of the team.
		Contemporary accounts indicate that Pollard, an exciting elusive runner, was the most feared running back in the fledgling league. During his pro football career the two-time All-America played and sometimes coached for four different NFL teams, the Pros/Indians (1920-21/1925-26), the Milwaukee Badgers (1922), the Hammond Pros (1923, 1925), and the Providence Steam Roller (1925).
		Pollard was a key member of the NFL's first champion, the Akron Pros who posted a league-best 8-0-3 record in the league's inaugural season in 1920.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=242 (456 words)

	Ivy League Sports
		The NFL Encyclopedia credits Pollard with coaching the Pros that season, but Pollard himself contended his coaching career was much deeper.
		Pollard's contention was that he was the coach at Akron beginning in 1919 and through 1921.
		He is not a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
	www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=3968 (1237 words)

	Akron Pros -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Akron Pros was a team in that played in (Click link for more info and facts about Akron, Ohio) Akron, Ohio in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Football League) National Football League from 1920-1925 and as the Akron Indians in 1926.
		The Pros became charter member of the new (Click link for more info and facts about American Professional Football Association) American Professional Football Association APFA in 1920.They won the 1920 league title.
		(Click link for more info and facts about Fritz Pollard) Fritz Pollard, the first (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American head coach in the NFL, coached the Pros in 1921.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ak/Akron_Pros.htm (190 words)

	Akron News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akron - A 28-year-old pregnant woman was killed with a gunshot to the head, the Summit County medical examiner ruled Saturday.
		AKRON - The Akron Zoo is one of five zoos or wildlife parks benefiting from a new specialty license plate available through the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
		Akron- Smoke was already filling the upstairs of Duane Meeker's home as he snatched the two boys and raced for the stairs, fire officials say.
	news.daylightonline.com /2005-02/Akron.html (6072 words)

	Hammond Pros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926.
		Of the nine African-American players in the league during those years, six played for the Pros.
		This page was last modified 21:39, 14 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hammond_Pros (58 words)

	Retro and Nostalgia - Golden Age Era Sports: Football
		The Pro's got their start in 1916 as the Akron Burkhardts, named after the family of brewers that first sponsored the team.
		In 1917 the 'Burkhardts' competed as the Akron Pros.
		The Pro's became the Akron Indians in1926, assuming the name of an earlier Akron semi-pro team.
	www.digitaldeliftp.com /Recommendations/retro9.html (1885 words)

	NFL.com - NFL History
		At the league meeting in Akron, April 30, the championship of the 1920 season was awarded to the Akron Pros.
		Player-coach Fritz Pollard of the Akron Pros became the first fl head coach.
		Grange and Nevers both retired from pro football, and Duluth disbanded, as the NFL was reduced to only 10 teams.
	www.nfl.com /history/chronology/1921-1930 (1441 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - Akron Pros 1920-25; Akron Indians 1926
		The Pros originated in 1916 as the Akron Burkhardts, named for a local family of brewers that sponsored the team.
		Like many other semi-pro teams, Akron didn't play in 1918 because of World War I, but resumed action in 1919 and, in 1920, the Pros became a charter member of the new American Professional Football Association APFA.
		The Pros had the first fl head coach in league history in 1921, when Fritz Pollard served as co-coach with Elgie Tobin.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/akronpros.shtml (235 words)

	Pro Football Hall of Fame - Biocrawler definition:Pro Football Hall of Fame - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pro Football Hall of Fame - Biocrawler definition:Pro Football Hall of Fame - Biocrawler
		Through 2004, all but one of the inductees played some part of their pro career in the NFL.
		That one was Buffalo Bills guard Billy Shaw, who played his entire career in the American Football League.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Pro_Football_Hall_of_Fame (289 words)

	The NFL: Professional Football Organized (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These early pioneers were Frank Neid of the Akron Pros, Ralph Hays of the Canton Bulldogs, Joe Carr (who would serve as league president from 1921-39) of the Columbus Panhandles, Leo Lyons of the Rochester (New York) Jeffersons, and Carl Storck of the Dayton Triangles.
		On August 20, 1920, an organizational meeting was held in Canton, with representatives from Akron, Canton, and the Cleveland Indians (not associated with the current Cleveland Indians Baseball organization) attending.
		At the next league meeting in Akron on April 30, 1921, Joe Carr, manager of the Columbus Panhandles, was named president and Carl Storck of Dayton was named secretary treasurer.
	www.daytontriangles.org /nfl.htm (976 words)

	The Cardinal Chronicle
		In their season finale against the still-undefeated Akron squad, Decatur could only muster a scoreless tie, allowing Akron to finish the year with the league's best winning percentage.
		Although no team was officially crowned for the 1920 season, the Pros of Akron are generally accepted as the NFL's first champion.
		NEXT : October 7, 1923 - The Rochester Jeffersons are no match for Paddy Driscoll and the mighty Cardinals as the Big-Red rolls on to its most lopsided victory in team history.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/TheCard/chron/chron3.html (430 words)

	GO >> AirTran Airways Inflight Magazine » Blog Archive » AKRON & CANTON
		Akron and Canton, Ohio, may be located in the area known by the coasts as the “flyover,” but if you’re a fan of classic Americana attractions like football, marbles and soapbox racers these two diminutive Midwestern cities, separated by less than 20 miles, are more Shangri-la than the middle of nowhere.
		Once the epicenter of American manufacturing, the central Ohio region has evolved and adapted to the new realities of America’s place in the world economy, but still pays respect to its industrial culture every summer with idiosyncratic celebrations that are the legacy of the region’s factory heritage.
		Ohio, specifically Akron and Canton, took a particularly strong interest in the game and produced the sport’s first powerhouse clubs in the Akron Pros and Canton Bulldogs.
	airtranmagazine.com /contents/2005/06/akron-canton (1240 words)

	Project 2 - NFL History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1920, an organizational meeting in Canton, Ohio between owners of the Akron Pros, Canton Bulldogs, Cleveland Indians, and the Dayton Triangles resulted in the formation of the American Professional Football Association.
		The Pro Football Hall of Fame was establish in Canton, Ohio in 1961.
		Also in 1995, many significant records and milestones were achieved: Miami's Dan Marino surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton in four major passing categories-attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns-to become the NFL's all-time career leader.
	www.rit.edu /~drp3921/wbm/project2/history.html (1401 words)

	CHRONOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
		At one of these games, Akron sold tackle Bob Nash to Buffalo for $300 and five percent of the gate receipts—the first APFA player deal.
		The Pro Bowl game, dormant since 1942, was revived under a new format matching the all-stars of each conference at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
		On the field, many significant records and milestones were achieved: Miami’s Dan Marino surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton in four major passing categories—attempts, completions, yards, and touchdowns—to become the NFL’s all-time career leader.
	www.footballinjuries.com /prohistory.htm (19005 words)

	NFL Pioneer’s Honor: “Better Late Than Never”
		Fritz Pollard, who became the NFL's first fl head coach in 1921, was finally voted into the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame in February after the selection committee decided Pollard’s name had “fallen through the cracks.” He long ago deserved the honor, according to members of the committee.
		Pollard became the first fl head coach of an NFL football team when he was hired in 1921 as co-coach of the Akron Pros.
		After being signed to the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football League (which later became the NFL), Pollard led the team to the 1920 championship.
	www.blackcollegewire.org /sports/050228_fritz-pollard (1265 words)

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