Detroit Wolverines įollowing the 1927 season, the Cleveland Bulldogs were sold to a group of investors, who moved the team to Detroit.
Conzelman gave up the franchise and joined the Providence Steam Rollers as player-coach. After rallying to a 4–0–2 record in their next six games, they lost their last three. The Panthers hoped to build on their 1925 season, but they opened the 1926 season with an 0–3 record. However, a 6–3 upset loss to the Independents on Thanksgiving Day knocked them out of first place and they ended the season in third. Conzelman served as the team's owner, coach, and starting quarterback. Conzelman was a quarterback who had recently played with the Decatur Staleys, Rock Island Independents and the Milwaukee Badgers. The team was organized by future Hall of Famer, Jimmy Conzelman.
In 1925, Detroit fielded its second NFL franchise, the Detroit Panthers. Its remaining players were given to the Buffalo All-Americans. The team officially folded at the end of the season in mid-November. Several players complained about not getting paid and left the team during the season. However, after a tie and a win in their first two games, the Tigers lost the next five. The Heralds were reorganized into the Detroit Tigers, after the city's major league baseball team, for the 1921 season. While the Heralds did not officially join the association, they are listed in league standings for the season.
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In 1920, the American Professional Football Association, predecessor to the National Football League, was established. In 1919, as the suspended teams resumed play and travel restrictions eased significantly, the Heralds went 1–4–2, including losses to Bulldogs and the Massillon Tigers.
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The Heralds were a rarity in 1918 while most teams either stopped play or reduced their schedules to only local teams because of World War I and the flu pandemic, the Heralds continued to play a full schedule and even travel to other cities, accruing a 6–2 record with both losses coming to the Ohio League champion Dayton Triangles. In 1917, the team recorded an 8–2 record, their only losses coming at the hands of the Ohio League champion Canton Bulldogs and a military team from Battle Creek. ĭespite not being based in Ohio, the Heralds played many of their games against teams in the Ohio League.
In 1916, several out-of-town players were brought in to replace some of the older players, several of whom had been with the Heralds since 1905. In 1911, the team dropped its amateur status and became semi-professional. While the university's football team resumed play in 1906, the Heralds continued to play as an amateur team. In 1905, several University of Detroit football players, led by Bill Marshall, organized the Heralds as an amateur team after the university did not field a squad. The Panthers competed from 1925 to 1926 and the Wolverines in 1928. The Tigers, a continuation of the Heralds, played in 1921, folding midseason and sending their players to the Buffalo All-Americans. The Heralds played in 1920, and had played as an independent as far back as 1905. National Football League (1925–1926, 1928)ĭetroit had four early teams in the National Football League before the Detroit Lions. Former teams of the National Football League Detroit (1920s NFL teams era) FoundedĪmerican Professional Football Association (1920–1921)
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