Los Angeles Buccaneers

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Los Angeles Buccaneers
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Founded1926
Folded1927
Based in Los Angeles, California, United States (nominally)
League National Football League
Team historyLos Angeles Buccaneers (1926–1927)
Team colorsOrange, black, white
   
Head coaches Tut Imlay (1926)
Brick Muller (1926–1927)
Home field(s) Traveling Team

The Los Angeles Buccaneers were a traveling team in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1926 season, 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 (or who grew up in California [1] ).

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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 refused to allow professional teams to play there. [2] The difficulty of transcontinental travel in the era before modern air travel, though, must have been a major factor in the decision to base the team in the Midwest, especially considering numerous other stadiums were large enough to accommodate an NFL team (the Rose Bowl and Wrigley Field of Los Angeles being among them), had the league desired to pursue that route. Despite being rejected by the Coliseum, the Buccaneers did play two true home games in Los Angeles, both of them exhibition games against the AFL's New York Yankees in January 1927. The Buccaneers also played two games in San Francisco, including the last game of the Buccaneers' existence, an exhibition game against the Wildcats, with the Buccaneers being shut out, 17–0, on January 23, 1927. Because of this, the NFL officially considers the team's home city to be Los Angeles. [3]

Season-by-season

YearWLTFinishCoach
19266316th Tut Imlay, Brick Muller

Roster

Los Angeles Buccaneers 1926 roster
Quarterbacks

Running backs

Ends

Linemen

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All-time record

OpponentWLTPFPA
Brooklyn Lions 100200
Canton Bulldogs 1001613
Detroit Panthers 10096
Milwaukee Badgers 10060
New York Giants 10060
Providence Steam Roller 10076
Buffalo Rangers 00100
Chicago Cardinals 010015
Kansas City Blues 01037
Pottsville Maroons 010010

References

  1. "Ongoing Research Project: Los Angeles Buccaneers". Rci.rutgers.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2010. see https://crab.rutgers.edu/users/maxymuk/home/ongoing/la.html retrieved September 29, 2024
  2. McCambridge, Michael: America's game: the epic story of how pro football captured a nation (Random House, 2005), pp. 16–17
  3. "Settlement between SoCal cities clears NFL stadium hurdle". NFL.com . Archived from the original on September 26, 2009.
  4. Maxymuk, John. "Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926)". Ongoing Research Project. Rutgers University. Retrieved June 18, 2015.