Akron Pros
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 team started out in 1916 as the Akron Burkhardts, named after a local family of brewers that sponsored the team. As from 1917 the team competed as the Akron Pros.
The Pros became a charter member of the NFL (then known as the American Professional Football Association) in 1920 and won the first ever league title.
Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Pros in 1921. In 1926, the name was changed to the Akron Indians, which had been an earlier Akron semi-pro team, but that didn't help. Because of financial problems, the team suspended operations in 1927 and surrendered its franchise the following year.
[edit] Season-by-season
| W | L | T | Finish | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pros | |||||
| 1920 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1st | |
| 1921 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3rd | |
| 1922 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10th | |
| 1923 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 15th | |
| 1924 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 13th | |
| 1925 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5th | |
| Indians | |||||
| 1926 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 16th | |
| Totals | 27 | 26 | 11 | ||
