Cleveland Bulldogs

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The Cleveland Bulldogs was a team that played in Cleveland, Ohio in the National Football League. They were called the Indians in 1923. The team's owner, Sam Deutsch bought the defending NFL champions Canton Bulldogs. He "mothballed" the Canton team and took its players and name to Cleveland in 1924 and won the NFL championship. In 1925, Deutsch, a Cleveland jeweler and sports patron, sold the Canton franchise to local owners, and sold his Cleveland club to Herb Brandt. The Cleveland Bulldogs fell to a dismal 5-8-1. Brandt received authority from the league to suspend operations for a year. They returned in 1927, bolstered by players from the folded Kansas City Cowboys franchise. However, the front office success didn't match the play on the field, and the team folded.

[edit] Pro Football Hall of Famers

[edit] Season-by-season

	Year	W	L	T	Finish	Coach
Indians	1923	3	1	1	5th	Cap Edwards
Bulldogs	1924	7	1	1	1st	Guy Chamberlin
	1925	5	8	1	12th	Cap Edwards
	1926	Suspended Operations
	1927	8	4	1	4th	Roy Andrews

Defunct NFL franchises

1920s	Chicago Tigers (1920) \| Cleveland Tigers/Indians (1920-21) \| Muncie Flyers (1920-21) \| Rochester Jeffersons (1920-25) \| Rock Island Independents (1920-25) \| Akron Pros/Indians (1920-26) \| Canton Bulldogs (1920-26) \| Columbus Panhandles/Tigers (1920-26) \| Hammond Pros (1920-26) \| Detroit Heralds/Tigers/Panthers/Wolverines (1920-28) \| Buffalo All-Americans/Bisons/Rangers (1920-29) \| Dayton Triangles (1920-29) \| Cincinnati Celts (1921) \| New York Giants (Brickley's) (1921) \| Tonawanda Kardex (1921) \| Washington Senators (1921) \| Evansville Crimson Giants (1921-22) \| Louisville Brecks/Colonels (1921-23, 1926) \| Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets (1921-24, 1929-31) \| Oorang Indians (1922-23) \| Toledo Maroons (1922-23) \| Racine Legion/Tornadoes (1922-24, 1926) \| Milwaukee Badgers (1922-26) \| St. Louis All Stars (1923) \| Cleveland Indians/Bulldogs (1923-27) \| Duluth Kelleys/Eskimos (1923-27) \| Kenosha Maroons (1924) \| Kansas City Blues/Cowboys (1924-26) \| Frankford Yellow Jackets (1924-31) \| Pottsville Maroons/Boston Bulldogs (1925-29) \| Providence Steam Roller (1925-31) \| Brooklyn Lions (1926) \| Hartford Blues (1926) \| Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926) \| New York Yankees (1927-28) \| Orange/Newark Tornadoes (1929-30) \| Staten Island Stapletons (1929-32)
1930s	Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers (1930-44) \| Cleveland Indians (1931) \| Cincinnati Reds (1933-34) \| St. Louis Gunners (1934)
1940s-50s	Boston Yanks (1944-48) \| Baltimore Colts (1950) \| New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949-51) \| Dallas Texans (1952)