1925 Hammond Pros season
Sporting season
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The 1925 Hammond Pros season was their sixth in the National Football League (NFL). The team failed to improve on their previous record against league opponents of 2â2â1, winning only one game.[1] They finished fourteenth in the league.[2]
| 1925 Hammond Pros season | |
|---|---|
| Head coach | Fritz Pollard and Doc Young |
| Home stadium | Traveling team |
| Results | |
| Record | 1â5 Overall 1â4 NFL |
| League place | 14th NFL |
Background
After having completed just 5 NFL games during the 1924 season, all of which were played on the road, Hammond went into 1925 with a light schedule of just five games, front-loaded to the first half of the season.[3] A very tentative home game was also scheduled for November 8 against the Dayton Triangles.[3] The proposed home game would have been the first since early in the 1923 season, when a game was played against Dayton at Hammond's Turner Field.[4]
In the end, the ill-fated November 8 was rescheduled as a road date against the Rock Island Independents but was canceled due to snow.[5]
A game was initially scheduled against the Racine Legion at Racine, Wisconsin[3] was canceled when that American Legion-sponsored team suspended operations for 1925. Instead a game was scheduled for the open date and played with the non-NFL Toronto Tigers of Toronto, Ohio, with Hammond losing the contest in a 7â0 shutout.[6]
Schedule
| Game | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Venue | Attendance | Recap | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 20 | at Green Bay Packers | L 0â14 | 0â1 | City Stadium | 3,000 | Recap | [7] | |
| 2 | September 27 | at Chicago Cardinals | W 10â6 | 1â1 | Normal Park | Recap | |||
| â | October 4 | at Racine Legion | Canceled due to franchise hiatus | [3] | |||||
| â | October 4 | at Toronto Tigers | L 0â7 | â | Kilgus Field | 2,500 | â | [6] | |
| 3 | October 11 | at Chicago Bears | L 7â28 | 1â2 | DePaul Field | Recap | [8][9] | ||
| 4 | November 1 | at Detroit Panthers | L 6â26 | 1â3 | Navin Field | Recap | [10] | ||
| â | November 8 | at Rock Island Independents | Canceled due to snow | [11] | |||||
| 5 | December 12 | at Chicago Cardinals | L 0â13 | 1â4 | Comiskey Park | Recap | |||
| Note: Game in italics was against a non-NFL team. | |||||||||
Standings
| NFL standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA | STK | |||
| Chicago Cardinals * | 11 | 2 | 1 | .846 | 229 | 65 | W2 | ||
| Pottsville Maroons * | 10 | 2 | 0 | .833 | 270 | 45 | W5 | ||
| Detroit Panthers | 8 | 2 | 2 | .800 | 129 | 39 | W1 | ||
| Akron Pros | 4 | 2 | 2 | .667 | 65 | 51 | L2 | ||
| New York Giants | 8 | 4 | 0 | .667 | 122 | 67 | W1 | ||
| Frankford Yellow Jackets | 13 | 7 | 0 | .650 | 190 | 169 | W2 | ||
| Chicago Bears | 9 | 5 | 3 | .643 | 158 | 96 | W3 | ||
| Rock Island Independents | 5 | 3 | 3 | .625 | 99 | 58 | L1 | ||
| Green Bay Packers | 8 | 5 | 0 | .615 | 151 | 110 | W1 | ||
| Providence Steam Roller | 6 | 5 | 1 | .545 | 111 | 101 | L1 | ||
| Canton Bulldogs | 4 | 4 | 0 | .500 | 50 | 73 | L1 | ||
| Cleveland Bulldogs | 5 | 8 | 1 | .385 | 75 | 135 | L1 | ||
| Kansas City Cowboys | 2 | 5 | 1 | .286 | 65 | 97 | W1 | ||
| Hammond Pros | 1 | 4 | 0 | .200 | 23 | 87 | L3 | ||
| Buffalo Bisons | 1 | 6 | 2 | .143 | 33 | 113 | L4 | ||
| Duluth Kelleys | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | 6 | 25 | L3 | ||
| Rochester Jeffersons | 0 | 6 | 1 | .000 | 26 | 111 | L5 | ||
| Milwaukee Badgers | 0 | 6 | 0 | .000 | 7 | 191 | L6 | ||
| Dayton Triangles | 0 | 7 | 1 | .000 | 3 | 84 | L7 | ||
| Columbus Tigers | 0 | 9 | 0 | .000 | 28 | 124 | L9 | ||
- Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.
* The Pottsville Maroons were suspended from the league in December,
and the Chicago Cardinals named the NFL champions.