Milwaukee Badgers

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The Milwaukee Badgers were a professional American football team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926. The team played its home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side. The team was notable for having a large number of African-American players for the time.^[1]

After the team folded following the 1926 season (largely due to being left broke because of a $500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals: the game was arranged after the Badgers had disbanded for the season)^[1], many of the its members played for the independent semi-pro Milwaukee Eagles. A few of the players from this team went on to play for the original Pittsburgh Pirates football team in 1933 which later became the Steelers. This has led some to mistakenly believe that either the Badgers or Eagles became the Steelers.

Contents 1 Pro Football Hall of Famers 2 Other Players 3 Season-by-season 4 References

[edit] Pro Football Hall of Famers

Jimmy Conzelman, Class of 1964

Johnny "Blood" McNally, Class of 1963 (inaugural member)

Fritz Pollard, Class of 2005

[edit] Other Players

Paul Robeson

[edit] Season-by-season

Year	W	L	T	Finish	Coach
1922	2	4	3	11th	Jimmy Conzelman, Budge Garrett
1923	7	2	3	3rd	Jimmy Conzelman
1924	5	8	0	12th	Hal Erickson
1925	0	6	0	16th	Johnny Bryan
1926	2	7	0	15th	Johnny Bryan

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Cliff Christl for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1999-10-23). Packers' survival in NFL a fluke of circumstance. Retrieved on 2008-03-17.

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