Founded | 1913 |
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Folded | 1921 |
Based in | City of Tonawanda, New York, United States |
League | New York Pro Football League (1916–1919) Independent (1920) American Professional Football Association (1921) |
Team history | All-Tonawanda All-Stars (1916–1917) All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks (1918–1919) Tonawanda Lumbermen (1920) Tonawanda Lumbermen/Kardex (1921) |
Team colors | Navy, silver |
Nickname(s) | the "Jacks" |
Head coaches | Walter "Tam" Rose |
Named for | American Kardex |
Home field(s) | Tonawanda High School (1916–1920) Traveling Team (1921) |
The Tonawanda Kardex (also known as the Tonawanda Lumbermen and during its first season, the All-Tonawanda Lumberjacks) was an American football team active between 1916 and 1921. It played its games in Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo with close ties to North Tonawanda, New York where American Kardex was founded. The team is most notable for its one game as a member of the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League) in the 1921 season. They are easily the shortest-lived team in the league's history, and the shortest-lived known team in North American major league sports history.