Canton Bulldogs
The Canton Bulldogs were a football team from Canton, Ohio. They existed from 1904, but broke away in 1906 already back on. 1911 another team was based in Canton, the Canton Professionals. 1915 changed this in remembrance of the old team changed its name to Canton Bulldogs. The "new" Bulldogs were in 1916, 1917 and 1919 unofficial champion in American Football. In 1920 she joined the newly formed National Football League ( NFL) with the Bulldog player Jim Thorpe as the first official president in. The Bulldogs particularly relied on the running game and could, among others, Joe Guyon as a running back in 1922 and 1923 champion of the league will be. From 1921 to 1923 Canton played 25 games without a single time to be defeated, which is a record in the National Football League today.
After her second title purchased by the owner of the Cleveland Indians, Samuel H. German, the Bulldogs on, called the Indians into Bulldogs and transferred the player to the team from Cleveland, this enhanced team won the 1924 title of the NFL. Trying Deutsch's failed in 1924 to sell back to the Canton Bulldogs NFL license, so that in fact there is no 1924 Canton Bulldogs were more. 1925 survived the franchise in Canton under the old name back on and played it before they broke up two other more or less unsuccessful years in the NFL. From the NFL both phases of the Canton Bulldogs are counted as a single team
The Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Hall of Fame of the National Football League, is due to the Bulldogs in Canton.
Players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Guy Chamberlin
- Joe Guyon
- Wilbur Henry
- William R. Lyman
- Greasy Neale
- Jim Thorpe