{"id":6356,"date":"2018-07-16T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2018-09-05T23:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T04:47:33","slug":"classic-programs-canton-bulldogs-vs-akron-pros-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/classic-programs-canton-bulldogs-vs-akron-pros-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Programs: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros, 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This program hails from the earliest days of the National Football League &#8212; in fact, during the league&#8217;s third year of existence and the first after changing its name from the American Professional Football Association (APFA). It features a contest between two long-defunct squads, the Canton Bulldogs and Akron Pros. This was the year Canton 10-0-2 en route to a league championship.<\/p>\n<p>This game was played on November 30, 1922, making it one of the oldest in my virtual collection. It was just eight pages long and was basically comprised of ads and lineup information. Pictured on the front are Bulldogs head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/ChamGu20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Guy Chamberlin<\/a> and owner\/GM Ralph Hay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/1922\/11-30_akr-can.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=nfl\/seasons\/1922\/images\/nfl-game-program_1922-11-30_akr-can.jpg\" alt=\"1922 NFL program: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6358\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4.jpg\" alt=\"1922 NFL program: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros\" width=\"2800\" height=\"1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4.jpg 2800w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-4-1024x372.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6360\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2.jpg\" alt=\"1922 NFL program: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros\" width=\"2798\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2.jpg 2798w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-2-1024x366.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2798px) 100vw, 2798px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6361\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3.jpg\" alt=\"1922 NFL program: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros\" width=\"2816\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3.jpg 2816w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-3-1024x370.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2816px) 100vw, 2816px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6359\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1.jpg\" alt=\"1922 NFL program: Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros\" width=\"2877\" height=\"2077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1.jpg 2877w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canton-akron-1922-nfl-program-1-1024x739.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2877px) 100vw, 2877px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great program from the very early days of the National Football League &#8211; Canton Bulldogs vs. Akron Pros, November 1922.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[240,615,614,91,14],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1920s","tag-akron-pros","tag-canton-bulldogs","tag-nfl","tag-programs","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6453,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions\/6453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}