Who Were The Flint Independents?

The Flint Independents were a football independent football team founded in 1914. The team played teams in Michigan, most of which in Flint or Detroit. The Flint Independents played home games in Flint, Michigan at Athletic Park. The team over its history had little success against top of the level competition. In their first season the team went 6-1 only losing to the Detroit Heralds (a team that later joined the APFA) 28-0. The team shutout the Detroit Argonauts twice (26-0 and 24-0) and also shutout the Detroit Trumbulls (7-0). The Flint Independents also won 83-0 against the Detroit Gemmers. The fifth game of the season was a 24-13 victory for Flint over the Windsor Independents. Following that win the Flint Independents won 82-0 over the Mount Clemens Tigers before losing to the Heralds in the last game of 1914. The team would play a few more seasons before folding after the 1920 season, the team did not play in 1918.

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https://www.pro-football-reference.com/

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https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Football_Wiki

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https://www.profootballhof.com/hall-of-famers/

Who Were The Detroit Maroons?

The Detroit Maroons were a team founded in 1914. The team played home games in Detroit, Michigan usually at Mack Park. The team is most known for playing the Detroit Heralds/Tigers who was an APFA team.  Majority of the Maroons games were played in Michigan but some games the team played were in New York. In 1920, the team went 3-3-1, in all their wins the team shutout their opponent but in all their loses the Maroons were shutout. The team tied the Detroit Heralds in a 7-7 score in the last game. In 1921, the Maroons went 4-2-1. In both their losses the Maroons were shutout and similar to 1920, against the Detroit Tigers (same franchise as the Heralds) the team had another tie, the game ended in a scoreless tie. The last records of the Maroons date back to the early 1920's when the team probably folded.  According to some articles the team became professional football champions of Michigan, most likely a result of the Detroit Herald/Tigers folding after the 1921 season making no franchise playing in the NFL in 1922.

Sources

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/

https://www.profootballarchives.com/index.html

https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Football_Wiki

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=main

https://www.profootballhof.com/hall-of-famers/

Who Were The Conshoshocken Athletic Club?

The Conshohocken Athletic Club was a professional football team based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania from 1914 until 1920, when the club's financial problems made it impossible to field a team. In the fall of 1921, the newly established Conshohocken Athletic Association took over sponsorship of the team. The new Association was formed as a community-based organization with the purpose of promoting and supporting outdoor athletics and had the full support of Conshohocken Athletic Club.

Conshohocken won the mythical Schuylkill County championship in 1914, 1915 and 1916, before laying claim to the eastern Pennsylvania championship in 1919. Conshohocken had an annual Thanksgiving rivalry with the Norristown Billikens of Norristown, Pennsylvania; from 1914 to 1916, Conshohocken beat the Billikens in all three games. The team played home games at Conshoshocken Community Field.

Conshoshocken had two notable players. One was William Earl Potteiger was an American football, baseball, and basketball player and coach. He played professionally in both baseball and football and coached professionally in basketball, baseball and football. Potteiger was player-coach for the New York Giants when they won their first National Football League championship in 1927. He also played minor league baseball from 1913 to 1917, in 1919, and from 1926 to 1927. He managed in the minors from 1926 to 1927 and in 1932. The other notable player was Robert Watkins "Bert" Yeabsley was a professional baseball player. Yeabsley played in Major League Baseball for Philadelphia Phillies in the 1919 season. He only played in three games in his one-year major league career. In 1916, Yeabsley played minor league baseball for the Raleigh Capitals as an outfielder. He made his major league debut on May 28, 1919. He pinch-hit for pitcher Elmer Jacobs in the 9th inning and drew a walk off Jimmy Ring of the Cincinnati Reds. Over the next two weeks, he appeared in two more games as a pinch runner, and never played professional baseball afterwards. Yeabsley also played professional football from 1914 until 1919 for the Conshohocken Athletic Club. In 1919, he played football for the Holmesburg Athletic Club.

Sources

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/

https://www.profootballarchives.com/index.html

https://americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com/wiki/Football_Wiki

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/controller/controller.php?action=main

https://www.profootballhof.com/hall-of-famers/

Ghosts of the Gridiron:Conshohocken Athletic Club