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Los Angeles Buccaneers
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Founded 1926
Folded 1927
Based in Los Angeles, California, United States (nominally)
Home field Traveling Team
League National Football League
Team History Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926-27)
Team Colors Orange, Black, White

              

Head coaches Tut Imlay (1926)
Brick Muller (1926-27)

The Los Angeles Buccaneers were a traveling team in the National Football League during their one season 1926, ostensibly representing the city of Los Angeles, California. Like the Los Angeles Wildcats of the first American Football League, the team never actually played a league game in Los Angeles. It was operated out of Chicago with players from California colleges. The historian Michael McCambridge has stated that the Buccaneers originally planned to play in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and became a road team only after the Coliseum Commission banned pro teams from its stadium. [1] However, the difficulty of transcontinental travel in the era before modern air travel must have been a major factor in the decision to base the team in the Midwest. [2] The last game of the Buccaneers' existence was an exhibition game against the Wildcats in San Francisco, with the Buccaneers being shut out, 17-0, on January 23, 1927. Its lone "home game" was an exhibition game against the AFL's New York Yankees in January 1927.

Season-by-season[]

Year W L T Finish Coach
1926 6 3 1 6th Tut Imlay, Brick Muller

Roster[]

Name Position
Juddy Ash G
Ben Bangs WB
Fred Beach G
Bull Finch FB
Bill Gutteron FB
Del Hufford E
Tut Imlay RB/WB/FB/HC
Tuffy Maul FB
Jack McArthur C/T/G/E
Brick Muller E/HC
Don Newmeyer T
John Nolan G
Artie Sandberg FB/WB
Pete Schaffnit E/FB/WB
Don Thompson G
John Thurman T
Ellery White WB/FB
Al Young WB/FB/RB

All time record[]

OpponentWLTPFPA
Brooklyn Lions100200
Canton Bulldogs1001613
Detroit Panthers10096
Milwaukee Badgers10060
New York Giants10060
Providence Steam Roller10076
Buffalo Rangers00100
Chicago Cardinals010015
Kansas City Blues01037
Pottsville Maroons010010

References[]

  1. McCambridge, Michael: America's game: the epic story of how pro football captured a nation (Random House, 2005), pp. 16-17
  2. http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d812e0d97&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true
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