On Oct. 3, 1920 a crowd of around 5,000 witnessed two professional teams compete in Dayton, Ohio, in what has been designated as the first game of the NFL. Although the Triangles were one of only three original NFL teams (along with the Bears and Cardinals) to survive the 1920s, and the only team from the Ohio League to survive past 1926, it soon became apparent that Dayton was not big enough to support a team in the burgeoning league. Storck would later become the team's manager, while Bud Talbott, a Walter Camp All-American tackle and team captain at Yale University, was named the team's coach. That it would inspire something in 2020, a hundred years later that would be, you know, you can see an NFL game anywhere in the world with the internet and satellite TV and things of that nature. His timber training earned him the nickname “the West Carrollton battering ram,” according to the 2005 story. By the late twenties, Dayton was one of the league's doormats, winning just five of their 51 NFL contests from 1923 through 1929. The meeting led to the creation of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC), the forerunner to the hugely successful National Football League. (Inducted: 2008), Saturday is the 100th anniversary of the game, 8 things you should know about the Dayton Triangles, the team that started the NFL, Archdeacon: Centennial celebration of Dayton Triangles takes many forms. A story in the morning newspaper at the time touted the gridiron skills of the hometown team before the game: “Everyone knows that the passing game is one of the strong points of the Triangle team. The Dodgers merged with the Boston Yanks franchise for the 1945 season due to player shortages. The team only lost one game that season, to the Columbus Panhandles. Each player was paid $50. Following trends, these Dayton teams were organized around neighborhood groups, and the many athletic clubs and factories stories mentioned teams like the Wolverines, Miamis, McKinleys, Westwoods, Oxfords, Republics, and Nationals all playing football in the Greater Dayton area. 1925: The Triangles would become an exclusive traveling team, playing all their games on the road. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. They went by the name of the St. Mary’s Cadets. On August 20, 1920, seven men, including legendary all-around athlete and football star Jim Thorpe, meet to organize a professional football league at the Jordan and Hupmobile Auto Showroom in Canton, Ohio. Jim Thorpe was nominated as president of the new league, as it was hoped Thorpe’s fame would help the league to be taken seriously. She also declared October 3rd "Dayton Triangles Day.". Instead, due to the coronavirus, Mayor Whaley presented Mayor Ginther of Columbus with a ceremonial football signed by her and Byars in front of the media — with the final score Triangles 14, Panhandles 0 displayed prominently on the side. The team went 6–0–2 that season. The Cadets also won their third consecutive city championship that year. “The old favorites were on the job every minute. The spectators at Triangle Park, “the biggest crowd that ever witnessed the opening of the professional grid season in this city,” glimpsed a shutout by the home team that fall day. Copyright © 1999. Canton, the premiere team in the league, featured legendary decathlete and football star Jim Thorpe. However, Dayton did partner with the NFL to construct Kettering Field a few miles away (see picture below). Professional football developed in the 1890s in Pennsylvania, as local athletic clubs engaged in increasingly intense competition. He took most of the members of the 1929 Tornadoes with him for the new Dodgers team. The killer—Ramón Mercader—was a Spanish communist and probable agent of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The Triangles were able to score 188 points and gave up only 13 to their opponents. The Triangles challenged the Bulldogs to a game on December 10, 1916, but the game was never played. Four thousand people paid $1.75 for admission, according to a 2005 Dayton Daily News story. In 1975, a ...read more, On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”—a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. During the course of the game, the Triangles Lou Partlow scored the first touchdown and George Hobby Kinderline kicked the point after, making NFL history. The high point of the Triangles' 1920 season was a 20–20 tie at Triangle Park with Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs; it was the first time a team had scored three touchdowns on the Bulldogs since 1915. That season saw Al Marhrt take over as the team's coach. Did you know the first National Football League game was played right here in Dayton? The Dayton Triangles finished 5–2–1 in their 1919 season in the Ohio League. In 1919, they followed up their championship with a season record of 4–2–1. Lewis and Clark left St. Louis the previous May, heading up the Missouri River with a party of 35 men, ...read more, On August 20, 1918, Jacqueline Susann, the author of Valley of the Dolls, the 1966 mega-hit novel about the showbiz lives of three women (reportedly modeled in part after Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly), is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celebrate the first game of the NFL with a day of family events & entertainment at Triangle Park! By 1896, the Allegheny Athletic Association was made up entirely of paid players, making it the sport’s first-ever professional team. During this period, the Saints suffered only two defeats in basketball. The next year, home games were moved to Westwood Field, and the team changed its name from the St. Mary’s Cadets to become known as the Dayton Gym Cadets. When ...read more, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley publishes a passionate editorial calling on President Abraham Lincoln to declare emancipation for all enslaved people in Union-held territory. The Dayton Triangles were one of the first 4 teams to join the Association. On June 19, 1976, the spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars and devoted the next month to imaging the Martian surface with the purpose of finding an appropriate landing ...read more, During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon. The first game played between 2 league teams was played at Triangle Park on October 3, 1920, a game in which the Triangles defeated the Columbus Panhandles, 14 to 0. One such team represented was from Dayton, Ohio — The Dayton Triangles. Byars is a Dayton native. DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North ...read more, Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. The Dayton Triangles Story by Steven Presar. The Dayton Triangles were one of the first 4 teams to join the Association. Soon, the combination of poor home gates and the lure of $2,500 guarantees to play at larger venues (like Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park and the Polo Grounds), made the Triangles primarily a traveling team. This past Saturday was another beautiful fall day, and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther, Dayton History CEO Brady Kress, and local football legend Keith Byars held a small centennial ceremony where Triangles field once stood. Tickets were $1.75 a piece and players were paid $50.00 a game. He was also a runner-up for the Heisman trophy at Ohio State, and had a long career as a fullback in the NFL. President Eisenhower approves a National Security Council paper titled “Review of U.S. Policy in the Far East.” This paper supported Secretary of State Dulles’ view that the United States should support Vietnamese prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem, while encouraging him to broaden ...read more, Future President Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio on August 20, 1833. During the league's history, numerous teams were based in Ohio. In 1946, Brooklyn's owner jumped to the AAFC and played as the New York Yankees. When the AAFC merged with the NFL, the Yankees players were divided between the New York Giants and the New York Bulldogs. The Birth of the National Football League. Three factories founded by Dayton industrialists Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering sponsored the team first. This is the story of the growth and development of this professional football team — The Dayton Triangles. The original Dayton Triangles members first began playing together as basketball players at St. Mary's College, now the University of Dayton from 1908 until 1912.
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