St. Louis Gunners

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The St. Louis Gunners, an independent professional football team based in St. Louis, Missouri, played the last 3 games of the 1934 National Football League season, replacing the Cincinnati Reds on the league schedule after the Reds were suspended from NFL membership. They won their first game against the Pittsburgh Pirates (now Steelers) 6-0, but lost the last two to the Detroit Lions (40-7) and the Green Bay Packers (21-14). A few of the Reds players joined the team for the last two games.

After the last game of the 1934 season, the Gunners returned to being an independent team, which they remained until the founding of an American Football League in 1938. That year, the Gunners finished in second place with a 4-3-1 record, just behind the Chicago Indians' 5-1-0. The following year, in the newly-renamed American Professional Football Association, the Gunners finished fifth in the league with a 5-6-0 record, well behind the league champion Los Angeles Bulldogs, two years after the Bulldogs' perfect season in the second AFL. The Gunners had officially withdrawn from the league after their eight game in 1939, and agreed to play out the remaining three games of their APFA schedule (with the results counting in the standings for all teams involved). Then the Gunners returned to an independent status until the onset of World War II.

After the Gunners left the NFL in 1934, the league would not return to St. Louis until the Cardinals relocated from Chicago in 1960. The current version of the St. Louis Gunners is an independent flag football team that plays in and around the St. Louis area.

[edit] Season-by-season

Year	W	L	T	Finish	Coach
1934	1	2	0	5th West	Chile Walsh

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