The 1919 Buffalo Prospects

Buffalo (NFL)

Buffalo, New York had a turbulent, early-era National Football League team that operated under three different names and several different owners between the 1910s and 1920s...

 season was their fifth season in existence. The team, which was previously known as the Buffalo All-Stars (1915-1917) and the Buffalo Niagaras (1918), played in the New York Pro Football League

New York Pro Football League

The New York Pro Football League was a professional American football league active in the 1910s and based in upstate New York, primarily Western New York. Between 1920 and 1921, the league's best teams were absorbed into the National Football League, though none survive in that league today...

 and would go on to post a 9-1-1 record. The next year, the team would move into the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

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Schedule

Game	Date	Opponent	Result
1	September 28, 1919	West Buffalo	L 7-0
2	October 5, 1919	Niagaras	W 23-2
3	October 12, 1919	Tonawanda Grive-Eldridge	W 40-0
4	October 26, 1919	Rochester Scalpers	Cancelled
5	October 26, 1919	West Buffalo	W 19-0
6	November 2, 1919	LeRoy	W 74-0
7	November 9, 1919	All-Syracuse Syracuse Pros The Syracuse Pros, also sometimes referred to as the Syracuse Eleven, were a professional American football team from Syracuse, New York. It is suspected, though not known for sure, that the team joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921 and left the same year...	W 23-0
8	November 16, 1919	Watertown Red & Black Watertown Red & Black The Watertown Red & Black is a semi-professional American football team based in Watertown, New York. Founded in 1896, the team is the oldest semi-pro football team in the United States...	Cancelled
9	November 16, 1919	Cleveland Panthers Cleveland Panthers The Cleveland Panthers were a professional American football team that competed in the first American Football League in 1926. Owned by General C. X. Zimmerman , the Panthers played their home games in Luna Bowl in Luna Park...	W 25-0
10	November 23, 1919	All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks Tonawanda Kardex The Tonawanda Kardex was an American football team active between 1916 and 1921. It played its games in City of Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo with close ties to North Tonawanda, New York where American Kardex was founded...	W 12-7
11	November 27, 1919	Rochester Jeffersons Rochester Jeffersons The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century , the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing...	T 0-0
12	November 30, 1919	Rochester Jeffersons Rochester Jeffersons The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century , the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing...	W 20-0