13 Facts About Buffalo All-Americans

1.

Buffalo All-Americans operated an early professional football circuit from at least the late 1800s onward.

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2.

Shoe salesman Warren D Patterson, at the same time as this, formed a new team known as the Buffalo Niagaras, signing former Youngstown Patricians quarterback Ernest "Tommy" Hughitt as his quarterback.

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3.

However records indicate he may not have actually entered his team into the American Professional Football Association until 1921, the All-Americans are generally shown as the third-place team in league standings from that year.

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4.

Unique for a professional football team, the Buffalo All-Americans had a sharing agreement with the Union Club of Phoenixville, a side project managed by Buffalo All-Americans player Heinie Miller.

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5.

Five All-Americans left the team to play for the Quakers full-time; Buffalo had the pickings of the then-defunct Detroit Tigers to replenish their roster.

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6.

Buffalo All-Americans finished in third place, with Chicago in second place.

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7.

Buffalo All-Americans did tell the Buffalo media that the two games were exhibitions and would have no bearing on the team's claim to the APFA title.

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8.

Buffalo All-Americans defeated the Pros, arriving in Chicago worn out and in no condition to play the Staleys, and lost.

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9.

McNeil insisted the Buffalo All-Americans were the champions, still maintaining that the last two games his team played were merely exhibitions.

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10.

Kendrick's first game with Buffalo All-Americans came on Sunday, October 4,1925, against the Rochester Jeffersons.

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11.

Buffalo All-Americans's plan was that this exhibition squad would then represent Buffalo in the NFL.

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12.

Buffalo All-Americans expected Kendrick to return to field the Rangers for the 1927 season, however he signed with the New York Giants, and most of the remaining players went their separate ways, citing their dislike for Buffalo All-Americans's cold winters as the primary reason for leaving.

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13.

Buffalo All-Americans would become a regular "neutral site" for NFL exhibitions from 1938 to 1958.

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