1919 Buffalo Prospects season explained

Team:Buffalo Prospects
Year:1919
Record:9–1–1
Division Place:1st NYPFL
Coach:Wesley Albott
General Manager:Barney Lepper
Owner:Dr. Walter Savage
Playoffs:W NYPFL Championship vs. Rochester Jeffersons (20–0)

The 1919 Buffalo Prospects season played in the New York Pro Football League and would go on to post a 9–1–1 record. The next year, the team would move into the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League).

The war and flu restrictions that had hampered the 1918 pro football season were no longer in place, and statewide play reopened after a one-year hiatus. Tommy Hughitt, who led the Buffalo Niagaras to a dominating championship among four semi-pro teams in Buffalo in 1918, initially left for Ohio in an attempt to revive the Youngstown Patricians; after one week, the Patricians folded, and by week 2, Hughitt was back in Buffalo, where he would spend the rest of his life. Hughitt signed with the Prospects, eventually leading them to the state championship.

Schedule

GameDateOpponentResult
1September 28, 1919West Buffalo L 7–0
2October 5, 1919Niagaras W 23–2
3October 12, 1919Tonawanda Grive-Eldridge W 40–0
4October 26, 1919Rochester Scalpers Cancelled
5October 26, 1919West Buffalo W 19–0
6November 2, 1919LeRoy W 74–0
7November 9, 1919W 23–0[1]
8November 16, 1919Cancelled[2]
9November 16, 1919W 25–0
10November 23, 1919W 12–7[3]
11November 27, 1919Rochester Jeffersons[4] T 0–0
12November 30, 1919Rochester Jeffersons (replay)W 20–0[5]

References

Notes and References

  1. Regional quarterfinal.
  2. Under the playoff structure, Buffalo would have played Watertown that week instead of Syracuse the previous week.
  3. Regional semifinal.
  4. [NFL on Thanksgiving Day|Thanksgiving Day game]
  5. League championship.