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	Rock Island
		Rock Island, a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
		It is the county seat of Rock Island County.
		Rock Island Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Columbia River downstream from Wenatchee, Washington and Rock Island, Washington.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/176/rock-island.html (1642 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		Rock Island's main industry was farm tool manufacturing, and that was all well and good for making ends meet and paying the rent and such.
		Rock Island was not one of his stops.
		Rock Island, under the care of subquarterback Vince McCarthy and local businessman Dale Johnson, jumped the NFL to follow the Redhead's siren call into the new league.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=rockisla (3307 words)

	Quad-Cities Online
		This photo of Jim Thorpe, which moved with a United Press International story in 1975, was identified as being taken in 1925, when he played with the Rock Island Independents.
		It came from United Press International to go with a 1975 story about the effort to get the International Olympics Committee to restore the medals Thorpe won in 1912, but which were later taken away when it was discovered he had played professional minor league baseball prior to the 1912 Games.
		If there was an "Apper Bros." company in Rock Island in 1925, the photo would almost certainly be of Thorpe in an Independents uniform, but we've been unable to determine if such a company existed.
	qconline.com /ask_us/ask_main.cgi?id=641 (372 words)

	FLM Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rock Island Independents Dropped QB WARNER,KURT (NYG) 5.
		Rock Island Independents Dropped WR PARKER,ERIC (SD) 5.
		Rock Island Independents Dropped K NEDNEY,JOE (TEN) 5.
	www.qlogo.com /justin/transactions.htm (1300 words)

	APFA Chronology
		Jim Thorpe joins the Rock Island Independents when the Oorang franchise moves to Michigan and becomes the Flint Central Indians.
		Seven new teams join the AFL, while the Rock Island Independents leave the APFA and also join Pyle's league.
		Rock Island Independents rejoin the league, but are asked to cease operations after it is learned they used four high school players on their rosters for a game against the Chicago Bears.
	www.a-afl.com /apfachronology.htm (1707 words)

	Giants.com
		His career highlight was catching a touchdown pass that gave the Giants a win over the Bears for the 1927 NFL Championship.
		He also played for the Canton Bulldogs in 1920, the Cleveland Indians in 1921, Oorang Indians from 1922-23, the Rock Island Independents in 1924 and the Kansas City Cowboys from 1924-25.
		Thorpe was the biggest name in football at the time that the Giants signed him at the age of 37.
	www.giants.com /display_cont.asp?cont_id=72376 (749 words)

	Quad-Cities Online
		The ceremonies were held for the laying of the cornerstone of the Beth Israel synagogue, 22nd St. and 3rd Ave., Rock Island.
		Manager Arch H. Bowlby of the Rock Island Independents announced the signing of Ralph (Bud) Widick, former Emporia College star and an all-Kansas center for three years.
		A Rock Island High School student will be assisted by a network radio appeal for more material to help her continue to amuse hospitalized veterans.
	qconline.com /history/day.cgi?year=2001&month=09&day=10 (215 words)

	NFL.com - NFL History
		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.
		On September 26, the first game featuring an APFA team was played at Rock Island's Douglas Park.
		By the beginning of December, most of the teams in the APFA had abandoned their hopes for a championship, and some of them, including the Chicago Tigers and the Detroit Heralds, had finished their seasons, disbanded, and had their franchises canceled by the Association.
	www.nfl.com /history/chronology/1911-1920 (640 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		One of his Great Lakes teammates was George Halas, who recruited him for his 1920 Decatur Staleys team in the newly formed American Professional Football Association, which later changed its name to the National Football League.
		After one season with the Staleys, Conzelman moved on to the Rock Island Independents where he began his career as a player-coach.
		He stayed with the Independents through seven games of the 1922 season before jumping to the Milwaukee Badgers for the remainder of the season and the 1923 season.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=48 (401 words)

	Buffalo's Forgotton Champions -By Jeff Miller
		The Rock Island (Illinois) Independents, Hammond (Indiana) All-Stars, Racine (a street in Chicago) Cardinals, Detroit Heralds, and Providence Steam Roller all had good teams that regularly played the Ohio league teams.
		Joining the reps from the August 20 meeting were Walter H. Lanigan of the Rock Island (Illinois) Independents, Dr. Alva A. Young of the Hammond Pros, Earl Ball of the Muncie Flyers, Chris O’Brien of the Racine Cardinals, Leo Lyons of the Rochester Jeffersons, and Morgan O’Brien and George Halas of the Decatur Staleys.
		Several top semi-pro teams either declined or were not invited to join the A.P.F.A., including the Staten Island Stapletons (formed in 1915), Providence Steam Roller (1916), and the Frankford Yellow Jackets and Green Bay Packers (both 1919).
	www.buffalonian.com /history/industry/sports/buffforgotchamp1.html (4379 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Both were talented players but the better-known Thorpe grabbed most of the headlines.
		The paths of the talented Indian pair parted late in the 1924 season when Guyon left the Rock Island Independents to go to the Kansas City Cowboys.
		Guyon stayed with the Cowboys in 1925 while Thorpe, then 37, moved on to the New York Giants.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=84 (388 words)

	Retro and Nostalgia - Golden Age Era Sports: Football
		The Rock Island Independents played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.
		Paul Brown chose this nickname for Cincinnati’s 1968 AFL expansion team because there had been earlier football teams in the city called the Bengals.
		The elder Bengals were members of the AFL in 1937, competed as an independent club in 1938, then played in a new AFL from 1939-41 before the league again folded.
	www.digitaldeliftp.com /recommendations/retro9.html (1885 words)

	DSHS - Sports Hall of Fame - 1997
		He was one of the 7 Hawkeye's named in the All Big Ten that year, and the team was named the National Champions.
		He played one season of pro- ball with the Rock Island Independents before retiring from the game.
		John had taught social studies and coached tennis at Senior for 35 years.
	www.senior.dubuque.k12.ia.us /pages/SportsHallofFame/SeniorHallofFame1997.htm (392 words)

	1918 Rock Island Independents Football Jersey
		This item is made to order and usually leaves the warehouse within 6-12 weeks
		A charter member of the NFL, the Independents played six seasons before moving to Red Grange's American Football League in 1926.
		This jersey is produced by the same factory that made them in the 50's.
	www.onlinesports.com /pages/I,EFF-ROC-18JF.html (93 words)

	Top 100 Players - 10 Jim Thorpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Deion and Bo who?: Thorpe went on to play baseball for six years and also spent time playing football for the Canton Bulldogs winning championships in 1916, 1917 and 1919.
		He continued to play football until he was 41 playing for Canton, the Cleveland Indians, the Oorang Indians, the Rock Island Independents, the New York Giants and the Chicago Cardinals.
		He became the first president of the American Football Association, now the National Football League, in 1920.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_10_Jim_Thorpe.htm (477 words)

	bears
		From the start, the Bears were one of pro football's most successful and innovative franchises.
		They were the first to buy a player from another team—in 1922, they bought Ed Healey from Rock Island for $100.
		The Bears purchased tackle Ed Healey's contract from the Rock Island Independents for $100, 27/11/22.
	carl.grindey.users.btopenworld.com /NFL_Teams/bears.htm (745 words)

	Packers.com » History » Fast Facts » Packers Firsts
		Loss: Oct. 30, 1921, 13-3 decision to Rock Island Independents, Hagemeister Park.
		While Kliebhan was the first starter, Curly Lambeau was really the team's first "field general." Lambeau would have started the Marines game had he not kept himself out after starting each of the four non-league contests.
		In fact, he started four of the team's remaining five games (Art Schmael started the Packers' second game, vs. Rock Island Oct. 30, 1921; Lambeau started the last four).
	www.packers.com /history/fast_facts/packers_firsts (514 words)

	Chicago Bears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Staley gives Halas the club with $5,000 to keep the Staleys name for the year.
		First Chicago player deal: Bears buy tackle Ed Healey's contract from the Rock Island Independents for $100-twice the going rate for a franchise that season.
		Harold "Red" Grange signs with Bears and pro football leaves its cradle.
	www.chicagobears.com /history/history_by_decades.jsp (361 words)

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		Jim Thorpe of Canton is elected APFA president and membership fee is set at $100 per franchise.
		The Rock Island Independents leave the NFL for the rival AFL at end of the season
		The Staten Island Stapletons fold between the 1932 and 1933 seasons
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	Did you Know - Thorpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Five year later, Thorpe became president of the NFL when it first started.
		He played and coached for the Rock Island Independents during much of the 1920s.
		Thorpe was born with twin brother Charlie at the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation on May 22, 1887.
	www.cityofhawthorne.com /dyk_jthorpe.htm (1006 words)

	DI'S CHICAGO BEARS HISTORY
		Head Coach Halas and the Chicago Bears recorded many firsts in the National Football League.
		The Bears were the first team to purchase a player from another team when they bought out Ed Healey's contract from the Rock Island Independents in 1922.
		All-American Harold "RED" Grange was the first player signed by the Bears to play for an unprecedented $100,000 and the first indoor game was played at Chicago Stadium between the Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans on December 18, 1932.
	www.geocities.com /dibears201.geo/history.html (909 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for September 16: NFL Founded" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Only three current teams can trace their beginnings to that day in 1920 the Chicago Bears, the Green Bay Packers and the Arizona Cardinals, also originally from Chicago.
		The league's first game, between the Rock Island Independents and the St. Paul Ideals, was seen by 800 people.
		Today, NFL games draw an average of 66-thousand fans, with millions more watching on television.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=20745 (249 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on NFL HISTORY Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Then, on September 17, 1920, a second organizational meeting was held.
		One of the first orders of business was to change the name of the American Professional Football Conference to the American Professional Football Association.
		On September 26, the first game, which featured an APFA team was played at Rock Island's Douglas Park.
	www.antiessays.com /free-essays/1143.html (1116 words)

	PFRA Forum
		What follows is a combination of the new info with what I already knew about the team...
		The Staleys didn't show up for the Arcola Independents game after Mr Staley discovered that Arcola had stocked it's team with college players from the Illinois, Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame.
		The three known players from the 1919 team (Dressen, Veach and Mintun) are all listed as "Independent", as are May and Clark...
	nflhistory.net /cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=771&forum=DCForumID64&omm=16&viewmode=threaded (2798 words)

	1923 Rock Island Independents statistics - pro-football-reference.com
		You are here: > pro-football-reference.com > Teams > Rock Island Independents > 1923
		Points scored: 83 (#9 of 20 in the NFL)
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	www.pro-football-reference.com /teams/rii1923.htm (101 words)

	Chicago Bears (1920-Present)
		The Bears again challenge for the league's title but come up a few games short with a 9-3 record.
		However, the biggest news comes when the Bears buy tackle Ed Healey's contract from the Rock Island Independents for $100-twice the going rate for a franchise that season.
		The Bears continue to be one of the premier teams of professional football as they post a solid record of 9-2-2.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nfl/chicago/bears.html (7016 words)

	profootball history1
		Rejecting the NFL's offer, he set out to make good on his threat.
		With New York as its flagship franchise, Pyle put together a league called the American Football League, which besides his team - the New York Yankees - consisted of the Boston Bulldogs, Brooklyn Horsemen, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Panthers, Newark Bears, Philadelphia Quakers and Rock Island Independents.
		A ninth team, the Los Angeles Wildcats, was designated to be a "road team," and represented Los Angeles in name only.
	www.coachwyatt.com /profootball_history1.htm (2875 words)

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		ACCORDING to the Web site QuadCityMusic.com, there are more than 175 bands that play rock, blues, jazz or country music.
		And one that plays “surf, spy, crime jazz, rockabilly, sci-fi, noir and lounge music.” The Metrolites, founded by Scott Morschhauser in 2002, is one of the bands broadening the musical landscape in the Quad-Cities.
		Thank God for RIBCO (Rock Island Brewing Co., a showcase of bands for more than 25 years), but you kind of have to elevate yourself to that level,” Tucker said.
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	FJCPDC A Primer On Civil Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She stayed with him to his death, but had been unable to testify against his murderer because law in effect in Virginia in 1806 which prohibited fls from testifying against a white man.
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