The 1920

1920 NFL season

The 1920 APFA season was the inaugural regular season of the National Football League which was called the American Professional Football Association in 1920 and 1921...

 Rochester Jeffersons

Rochester Jeffersons

The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century , the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing...

 season was their inaugural season in the league

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

. The team finished 6-3-2, earning them seventh place in the league.

The team could be seen as a league team in name only; though team owner Leo Lyons

Leo Lyons (American football)

Leo V. Lyons was a co-founder of the National Football League. He was a player, manager,coach and owner of the Rochester Jeffersons from 1908 to 1925.-Early career:...

 fought to get the team into the league, only one game in the Jeffs' schedule was actually against another APFA team, against the Buffalo All-Americans.

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
1	October 3, 1920	All-Buffalo	W 10-0
2	October 10, 1920	Fort Porter Fort Porter Fort Porter was constructed between 1841 and 1844 at Buffalo in Erie County, New York and named for General Peter Buell Porter. The site was bounded by Porter Avenue, Busti Avenue and the Erie Barge Canal. It was initially a square masonry two-story redoubt, 62 feet square, with crenelated walls...	W 66-0
3	October 17, 1920	Utica Utica, New York Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....  Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....	T 0-0
4	October 24, 1920	Syracuse Stars Syracuse Pros The Syracuse Pros, also sometimes referred to as the Syracuse Eleven, were a professional American football team from Syracuse, New York. It is suspected, though not known for sure, that the team joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921 and left the same year...	W 21-7
5	October 31, 1920	at Buffalo All-Americans Buffalo (NFL) Buffalo, New York had a turbulent, early-era National Football League team that operated under three different names and several different owners between the 1910s and 1920s...	L 17-6
6	November 7, 1920	Utica Utica, New York Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....  Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded in the United States in 1882, it is named in honor of Christopher Columbus....	W 27-7
7	November 14, 1920	All-Tonawanda Tonawanda Kardex The Tonawanda Kardex was an American football team active between 1916 and 1921. It played its games in City of Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo with close ties to North Tonawanda, New York where American Kardex was founded...	L 6-0
8	November 21, 1920	Rochester Scalpers	W 16-0
9	November 25, 1920	All-Tonawanda Tonawanda Kardex The Tonawanda Kardex was an American football team active between 1916 and 1921. It played its games in City of Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo with close ties to North Tonawanda, New York where American Kardex was founded...	L 14-3
10	November 28, 1920	at Rochester Scalpers	W 7-6
11	December 5, 1920	at Rochester Scalpers	T 0-0

• Games in italics are against non-NFL teams.