1919 Buffalo Prospects season

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1919 Buffalo Prospects season
Owner	Dr. Walter Savage
General manager	Barney Lepper
Head coach	Wesley Albott
Results
Record	9–1–1
Division place	1st NYPFL
Playoff finish	W NYPFL Championship vs. Rochester Jeffersons (20–0)
← 1918 Buffalo Prospects 1920 →

The 1919 Buffalo Prospects season played in the New York Pro Football League 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).

The war and flu restrictions that had hampered the 1918 pro football season were no longer in place, and statewide play reopened after a one-year hiatus. Tommy Hughitt, who led the Buffalo Niagaras to a dominating championship among four semi-pro teams in Buffalo in 1918, initially left for Ohio in an attempt to revive the Youngstown Patricians; after one week, the Patricians folded, and by week 2, Hughitt was back in Buffalo, where he would spend the rest of his life. Hughitt signed with the Prospects, eventually leading them to the state championship.

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	W 23–0^[1]
8	November 16, 1919	Watertown Red & Black	Cancelled^[2]
9	November 16, 1919	Cleveland Panthers	W 25–0
10	November 23, 1919	All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks	W 12–7^[3]
11	November 27, 1919	Rochester Jeffersons^[4]	T 0–0
12	November 30, 1919	Rochester Jeffersons (replay)	W 20–0^[5]

Game notes

^ Regional quarterfinal.
^ Under the playoff structure, Buffalo would have played Watertown that week instead of Syracuse the previous week.
^ Regional semifinal.
^ Thanksgiving Day game
^ League championship.

References

1919 in Pro Football

Ohio League	Akron	Canton	Buffalo	Rochester	New York League
	Cleveland	Dayton
	Massillon

v t e Buffalo All-Americans / Bisons / Rangers
Defunct National Football League club (1915–1929) Based in Buffalo, New York
The franchise	Franchise All-Americans Players Bisons Players Rangers Players
Owners	Barney Lepper Warren D. Patterson Frank McNeil Tommy Hughitt
Head coaches	Tommy Hughitt Walt Koppisch Jim Kendrick Dim Batterson Al Jolley
Stadiums	Buffalo Baseball Park Canisius College Bison Stadium
Seasons	1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1929
Lore	Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cup Staley Swindle Buffalo Bills New York Pro Football League

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