Hammond Pros T-Shirts

Description: The Hammond Pros were one of the founding members of the NFL. They featured a number of pioneer black players, including Fritz Pollard.They were also George Halas's first team before the forming of the Chicago Bears.

Description: The Hammond Pros were one of the founding members of the NFL. They featured a number of pioneer black players, including Fritz Pollard.They were also George Halas's first team before the forming of the Chicago Bears.

Description: The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team. The Pros were established by local businessman Paul Parduhn and Dr. Alva Young. Young, a boxing promoter and owner of a racing stable, also served as doctor/trainer (and part-owner) for a semi-pro football team operated by the Hammond Clabby Athletic Association from 1915 to 1917. In 1918, Young presided over a new team known as the "Hammond All-Stars" and played against many of the teams that would form the backbone of the American Professional Football Association (including the Racine Cardinals, Detroit Heralds, Rock Island Independents, Minneapolis Marines, Cleveland Tigers, Canton Bulldogs, and Toledo Maroons).

Description: The Hammond Pros were an American football team from Hammond, Indiana that played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926 as a traveling team.