The team got their namesake from the three companies and because they played at Triangle Park in North Dayton. The Jeffersons fared well in their first season, ending the season with a 6-3-2 record. In 1922, the Panhandles were discontinued due to cost and salary demands.In 1916, the Dayton Triangles organized as a recreational football team, comprised of employees from three Dayton factories: the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco); the Dayton Metal Products Company, and the Domestic Engineering Company (now called Delco-Light). On April 30, 1921, after an 8-0-3 season, the team was awarded the American Professional Football Association, or APFA (now NFL) Champion title, as well as the Brunswick-Balke Collendar Cup. EXPERIENCES OF A LIFETIME In this league you have 8 teams with the winning team being awarded 4 points and 2 points awarded for a draw. Leo Lyons – the team’s manager, coach, player and owner – worked to recruit top collegiate players, even if they hailed from different states. Tigers owner Guil Falcon reportedly made a deal with Cardinals owner Chris O’Brien to play for the right to be the sole Chicago team – and after the Cardinals won 6-3, the Tigers disbanded at the end of the season.Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964Though the Cleveland Tigers ended their inaugural APFA (now NFL) season with a 2-4-2 record, the team put up 7 points against that season’s champion, the Akron Pros – the only points the Pros allowed in the entirety of the 1920 season. This was ultimately not successful, and the VFL elected to return to the original format in 1958, and remained under this format until 1971. In the early 1900s, the Bulldogs were a dominant football team, boasting famous players such as Olympic Gold Medalist and hailed football hero, Jim Thorpe. Though the Flyers lasted five seasons in the American Professional Football Association (APFA), now NFL, the team’s success wasn’t plentiful: The Flyers played its first NFL game October 3, 1920, losing to the Rock Island Independents 45-0. The Vfl Original 8 is built using the league table Creators provided for free use online by iCalculator, if you would like to build your own league table, you can use any of the free tools provided below.This particular league was built using the Advanced or Advanced Combined league calculator, or a combination of the two. Unfortunately, most of the Hammond players had full-time jobs, little time to practice, and played most of their games on the road, lending to the team’s seven-year, 5-26-4 record. In the team’s first season, the All-Americans went 9-9-1, and believed they deserved to win the championship – and the Brunswick-Balke Collendar Cup. In the 1921 season, the Cleveland Tigers became the Cleveland Indians, and shared both a field and name with the city’s baseball club. The six brothers turned the Panhandles into a major attraction with sellout crowds nearly everywhere they went. In 1921, the team was renamed the Detroit Tigers, but disbanded in the same season – just one year after the APFA’s (NFL’s) inception.It is said that the American Professional Football Association (now NFL), was initially deemed viable because of a 1919 game between the Hammond Pros and the Canton Bulldogs, that boasted somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 fans.