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Buffalo (NFL)
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<!-- start content --> Buffalo All-Americans, Buffalo Bisons (NFL)
and Buffalo Rangers all redirect to here. For the current Buffalo NFL franchise, see Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills).
Logos link for these early teams.
Click to see logos (http://www.billsbackers.com/)
Clockwise from top-left to bottom right:
Buffalo Bisons, Buffalo Rangers,
and All-Americans respectively.
Buffalo, New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%2C_New_York) had a turbulent, early-era National Football League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League) team that operated under three different names and several different owners between 1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920)-1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929) NFL seasons. The early NFL era franchise was variously called the Buffalo All-Americans from 1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920)-1923 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923), Buffalo Bisons from 1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924)-1925 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925), 1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927) and 1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929), and the Buffalo Rangers in 1926 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926). The franchise, experiencing financial problems in 1928 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928), did not participate in league play.
<table style="padding: 0.5em 0pt 0.8em 1.4em; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; clear: right; margin-bottom: 0.5em; float: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: auto;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"> <tbody><tr> <td> Contents
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1 Players of note (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#Players_of_note)
2 Season-by-season (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#Season-by-season)
3 External links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#External_links)
4 References (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#References) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> </script></td> </tr> </tbody></table> The Buffalo All-Americans had success during its first couple of seasons, posting a 9-1-1 regular season record in 1920 where they became the first professional NFL team to win by margins of 20 or more points in each of its first four games, an asterisked record which was not tied until the 2007 New England Patriots' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_season) offense duplicated the feat against other (all) professional and league teams on October 1st, 2007<sup id="_ref-0" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-0)</sup>; the asterisked record is because in the early NFL, the All-Americans played several non-league opponents in their first four wins in 1920.<sup id="_ref-1" class="reference">[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-1)</sup>.
They next posted a 9-1-2 record in 1921, coming within one game of the league's championship that second year (which was awarded by a vote of the Association's executive committee in January of 1922) but as they split the season, losing their second game to the Chicago Staleys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bears) in their final game of the season. <sup id="_ref-2" class="reference">[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-2)</sup> In their decision, based on the generally accepted rule that if two teams play each other more than once in a season, the second game counts more than the first, the executive committee followed established tradition. Had Buffalo not played the last game (or if it had not been counted as per Buffalo's wishes), they would have had an undefeated season and won the title.
Despite their early strong showing, thereafter in the hard scrabble economy of the 1920s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s), the team struggled for the rest of its lifespan. Thereafter, the team went through several owners and name changes, but nothing seemed to work. Finally, after failing to field a team in 1928, the original Buffalo franchise folded after the 1929 season. Tommy Hughitt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Hughitt) was a player on the team in the early 20s.
With the exception of the Green Bay Packers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers) and Chicago Cardinals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals), both of which are still in the NFL, Buffalo's franchise was the longest-lived of the original APFA teams.
The team has no official relation to future Buffalo pro football franchises: the Buffalo Tigers (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buffalo_Tigers&action=edit) of the 1940s AFL, the Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills_%28AAFC%29) of the AAFC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America_Football_Conference), or the Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills) of today which was one of the new AFL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League) teams (formation announced in 1959) that first played in 1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Buffalo All-Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buffalo_All-Americans&redirect=no))
Jump to: navigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#column-one), search (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#searchInput)
<!-- start content --> Buffalo All-Americans, Buffalo Bisons (NFL)
and Buffalo Rangers all redirect to here. For the current Buffalo NFL franchise, see Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills).
Logos link for these early teams.
Click to see logos (http://www.billsbackers.com/)
Clockwise from top-left to bottom right:
Buffalo Bisons, Buffalo Rangers,
and All-Americans respectively.
Buffalo, New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%2C_New_York) had a turbulent, early-era National Football League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League) team that operated under three different names and several different owners between 1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920)-1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929) NFL seasons. The early NFL era franchise was variously called the Buffalo All-Americans from 1920 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920)-1923 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923), Buffalo Bisons from 1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924)-1925 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925), 1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927) and 1929 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929), and the Buffalo Rangers in 1926 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926). The franchise, experiencing financial problems in 1928 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928), did not participate in league play.
<table style="padding: 0.5em 0pt 0.8em 1.4em; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; clear: right; margin-bottom: 0.5em; float: right; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; width: auto;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents"> <tbody><tr> <td> Contents
[hide (javascript:toggleToc())]
1 Players of note (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#Players_of_note)
2 Season-by-season (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#Season-by-season)
3 External links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#External_links)
4 References (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#References) </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } //]]> </script></td> </tr> </tbody></table> The Buffalo All-Americans had success during its first couple of seasons, posting a 9-1-1 regular season record in 1920 where they became the first professional NFL team to win by margins of 20 or more points in each of its first four games, an asterisked record which was not tied until the 2007 New England Patriots' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_season) offense duplicated the feat against other (all) professional and league teams on October 1st, 2007<sup id="_ref-0" class="reference">[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-0)</sup>; the asterisked record is because in the early NFL, the All-Americans played several non-league opponents in their first four wins in 1920.<sup id="_ref-1" class="reference">[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-1)</sup>.
They next posted a 9-1-2 record in 1921, coming within one game of the league's championship that second year (which was awarded by a vote of the Association's executive committee in January of 1922) but as they split the season, losing their second game to the Chicago Staleys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bears) in their final game of the season. <sup id="_ref-2" class="reference">[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_All-Americans#_note-2)</sup> In their decision, based on the generally accepted rule that if two teams play each other more than once in a season, the second game counts more than the first, the executive committee followed established tradition. Had Buffalo not played the last game (or if it had not been counted as per Buffalo's wishes), they would have had an undefeated season and won the title.
Despite their early strong showing, thereafter in the hard scrabble economy of the 1920s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s), the team struggled for the rest of its lifespan. Thereafter, the team went through several owners and name changes, but nothing seemed to work. Finally, after failing to field a team in 1928, the original Buffalo franchise folded after the 1929 season. Tommy Hughitt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Hughitt) was a player on the team in the early 20s.
With the exception of the Green Bay Packers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers) and Chicago Cardinals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals), both of which are still in the NFL, Buffalo's franchise was the longest-lived of the original APFA teams.
The team has no official relation to future Buffalo pro football franchises: the Buffalo Tigers (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buffalo_Tigers&action=edit) of the 1940s AFL, the Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills_%28AAFC%29) of the AAFC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-America_Football_Conference), or the Buffalo Bills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills) of today which was one of the new AFL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League) teams (formation announced in 1959) that first played in 1960 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960).