From Wikipedia.
As I said in my posts last week, I had never heard of an NFL team called the Evansville Crimson Giants. I found out about them when writing about Evansville, Indiana's Bosse Field, where the Crimson Giants played.
The city's first significant semi-pro football team was the Evansville Ex-Collegians which began play in 1920. They were all local players who got paid based on gate receipts on a game-by-game basis. There was no real management and the players themselves were in charge of scheduling and all finances.
In 1920, a group of local businessmen tried to purchase the team but that fell through.
After two initial wins over modest opponents, the Ex-Collegians began bragging about their playing a game against the most-celebrated football team in America, the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs on Christmas Day 1920. Chances of that happening, however, were slim and it turned out to be more of a marketing scheme. Attendance increased and the Ex-Collegians finished the 1920 year with a 7-1 record.
Go You Crimson Giants!! --DaCoot
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