This should help... http://football.about.com/library/weekly/bl_genealogy20s.htm None of the original teams from 1920 remain. Hell, almost all the teams that were formed back then didn't last long, because nobody really watched pro football back then. Everyone followed college football. Here's the complete history of NFL franchises http://football.about.com/library/weekly/bl_genealogy.htm The NFL franchise genealogy is pretty interesting. At one time or another, there were FOOTBALL teams named: Brooklyn Dodgers New York Yankees Pittsburgh Pirates Cincinatti Reds Cleveland Indians My favorite NFL team name of all time has to be the Tonawanda Kardex, who played for one year in 1921. Now, the $64,000 question...anybody know what a Kardex is??
Here's another great reference site: Football Reference It's from the same people who developed Baseball Reference, which is by far my favorite sports website. Football Reference has some year-by-year information (teams, schedules, records) dating back to 1920. The site's goal is to piece together the stastisical history of the NFL as far back as possible (it currently contains post-1960 player stats), which is what the Baseball Reference site already has done for MLB, dating back to 1871 and the original National Association.
I found two references: The Tonawanda Kardex (named after and possibly sponsored by the Kardex Company) and The Tonawanda Kardex (also called Lumbermen)... So my guess is that Kardex was a lumber company?
1906 The forward pass was legalized. You know, maybe the Cowboys should look at the rule book more closely...It might improve their offense a little...
