Tonawanda High School is a public high school located in the City of Tonawanda , New York , United States. It is part of the Tonawanda City School District .
17-548: The school's football field was at one time the home of the Tonawanda Kardex , a professional football team, which achieved fame by playing in just one game as a member of the National Football League in 1921 . The Kardex would sometimes draw up to 3,500 fans for a game. However, NFL records list the nonexistent "Lumbermen Stadium" as the team's home field. This New York (state) school–related article
34-591: A league member in 1921). Whether or not the team continued to exist is somewhat unclear. Records from 1925 show that the Buffalo Football Bisons played an exhibition game against a team from Tonawanda before the 1925 regular season , but it is not known if it is the same Tonawanda team as the APFA/NYPFL franchise. The "Lumberjacks" name is currently in use by North Tonawanda High School . Due to incomplete record-keeping during this time, some players from
51-541: A team's season. The 1966 Green Bay Packers: Profiles of Vince Lombardi's Super Bowl I Champions was released in 2016, and The 1958 Baltimore Colts: Profiles of the NFL's First Sudden Death Champions followed in 2018. Writing is underway for the chapters of a book about the 1951 Los Angeles Rams season , was released in 2022. The fourth book, about the 1964 Buffalo Bills season , will follow in 2024. The PFRA maintains ongoing database projects, with committees of members who update
68-524: A variety of pro football subjects. In cooperation with McFarland & Company , the PFRA is now working on the third installment in its "Great Teams in Pro Football History" series, edited by George Bozeka. Individual members of the association volunteer to author the different chapters, profiling in detail the players, the coaching staff, the preseason, regular season and postseason, and other elements of
85-587: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tonawanda Kardex The Tonawanda Kardex (also known as the Tonawanda Lumbermen and during its first season, the All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks ) was an American football team active between 1916 and 1921. It played its games in Tonawanda, New York , a suburb of Buffalo with close ties to North Tonawanda, New York where American Kardex
102-546: Is an organization of researchers whose mission is to preserve and, in some cases, reconstruct professional American football history. It was founded on June 22, 1979 in Canton, Ohio by writer/historian Bob Carroll and six other football researchers and is currently headed by an executive committee led by its president, George Bozeka, and executive director Leon Elder. Membership in the organization includes some of professional football's foremost historians and authors. The organization
119-521: Is based in Guilford, New York . The PFRA publishes books and a bimonthly magazine, The Coffin Corner , devoted to topics in professional football history. The organization also gives out awards each year for outstanding achievement in the field of football research. The Coffin Corner is a semimonthly magazine devoted to topics in professional football history. PFRA members publish their research findings in
136-763: The Syracuse Pros , followed by a 9–7 win against the Cleveland Panthers . A game against the Rochester Scalpers scheduled for November was canceled; instead, on November 6, 1921, the Kardex traveled to Rochester to play their sole APFA league game, against the Rochester Jeffersons . There they played the worst game of their existence, a 45–0 blowout loss to the Jeffs in front of 2,700 fans. Several factors played into
153-571: The 1921 team are only reported upon by their last name. Backnor, C; Fred Brumm, LT; Cassidy, QB; Joe Dussosoit, RE; Andy Fletcher, LHB; Art Georke, LE; Clarence Hosmer, LG; Rudy Kraft, LG-C; George Kuhrt, LT; Buck MacDonald, RG; Tom McLaughlin, RHB-FB; Bill Meisner, RHB; Frank Morrisey, RT; Frank Primeau, RE-QB; Tam Rose, LHB; Spin Roy, LE; Bill Sanborn, RE; Charles Tallman, RT; Red Werder, C; Wex, FB;Wise, QB Pro Football Researchers Association The Professional Football Researchers Association ( PFRA )
170-666: The Lumbermen's departure from the league. Records from the Pro Football Researchers Association indicate that Tonawanda had trouble scheduling games due to a lack of willing opponents. The now-renamed NFL's franchise fee for 1922 also increased from $ 50 to $ 1,000, making it harder for Tonawanda to play a second season in the league. The team's declining on-field performance was also a factor (Rochester and Syracuse were two teams that Tonawanda had beaten handily as an independent in 1920 but performed far less well against as
187-419: The articles, regardless of prior writing experience. In the case of newer authors and first-time contributors, the magazine's editors assist, anonymously, in helping develop the narratives for publication. The $ 35.00 annual membership in the organization includes a subscription to six issues of The Coffin Corner , as well as access to the "Members Only" section of their website, which contains detailed research on
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#1732855864173204-521: The record as information develops, or as it is discovered in the course of research. Select committees may be disbanded as their work is completed. The "Hall of Very Good" is a project done to highlight the best players, coaches and contributors not yet inducted into the Hall of Fame. The * indicates that person was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame afterwards. The Ralph Hay Award , named after
221-622: The season against the Rochester Jeffersons was among the first games in the traditional Thanksgiving Day series . With their 1920 success (and a crackdown by the APFA on playing non-league teams), the Lumberjacks joined the league in 1921 as the Tonawanda Lumbermen or Tonawanda Kardex, named for (and presumably sponsored by) James Rand Jr. 's American Kardex, a company that through mergers and acquisitions became part of Rand Kardex, Remington Rand , Sperry Rand , and eventually UniSys . Before 1921,
238-524: The semifinals to the Buffalo Prospects , who went on to win the title. The 1920 All Tonawanda Lumberjacks were a very successful team, garnering a record of 7–1 against two local American Professional Football Association (the predecessor to the NFL) franchises and other independent teams, only allowing more than 6 points in one of their contests (the one loss, a 35–0 decision to Buffalo). Their last game of
255-553: The team lost to the Lancaster Malleables in the region's showcase Thanksgiving game that year). They played their home games on the Tonawanda High School field, sometimes drawing up to 3,500 fans for a game. For the team's entire history, it was coached by Syracuse standout Walter "Tam" Rose . In 1917, it defeated the Rochester Jeffersons for the state championship . In 1919, it made the state playoffs but lost in
272-407: The team played its home games at Tonawanda High School; however, its lone game in the NFL was an away game, and according to contemporary news reports, the team had intended to play as a traveling team had it continued beyond one game. NFL records list the nonexistent and spurious "Lumbermen Stadium" as the team's home field. The 1921 season began much like the first, with a scoreless tie against
289-645: Was founded. The team is most notable for its one game as a member of the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League ) in the 1921 season. They are easily the shortest-lived team in the league's history, and the shortest-lived known team in North American major league sports history. Professional football was being played in Tonawanda by no later than 1913 (this terminus ad quem comes from records that show
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