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The Akron Pros was a team in that played in Akron, Ohio in the National Football League from 1920-1925.The team started out in 1916 as the Akron Burkhardts, named after a local family of brewers that sponsored the team. As from 1917 the team competed as the Akron Pros.
They won the 1920 league title. That same year, the Pros became charter member of the new American Professional Football Association APFA.
Fritz Pollard, the first African-American head coach in the NFL, coached the Pros in 1921. That year they won the championship, in 1922 the Pros finised third.
In 1926, the name was changed to the Akron Indians, which had been an earlier Akron semi-pro team, but that didn't help. Because of financial problems, the team suspended operations in 1927 and surrendered its franchise the following year.
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