Kenosha Maroons The Kenosha Maroons were a National Football League football team in Kenosha , Wisconsin . The team was originally based in Toledo , Ohio and called the Toledo Maroons from 1922 - 1923 . The Maroons played in the NFL only during 1924 . The Maroons dissolved after posting no wins in five games . History . Origins . The team existed prior to 1924 as the Toledo Maroons . However on September 16 , 1924 , the City of Kenosha purchased the Toledo franchise . The town felt that the team would be successful under the direction of George Johnson , an umpire in the Midwest baseball league . Johnson began scouting for talent to stock the new club . Financial support was offered by the Nash and Simmons companies , long - time sponsors of local athletic teams . Johnson soon signed Marv Wood , a 195 - pound fullback from the University of California , and Walt Cassidy , a wide receiver and 1923 graduate of the University of Detroit . Others on the official roster were quarterback Jimmy Simpson , also out of the University of Detroit ; running back George Seasholtz from Lafayette College ; and Clete Patterson , an offensive guard from Ohio University . There were wide receiver Dick Stahlman of DePaul University ; running back Dick Vick and offensive tackle Ray Oberbroekling from Loras College . One of the most popular players was Earl Potteiger , a running back . He was well known in Kenosha as a baseball player for the Simmons and Nash teams in previous years . Potteiger would go on to coach the championship New York Giants three years later . Bo Hanley was named coach of the Maroons . 1924 season . On October 3 , 1924 , the Maroons played their first game of the season against the Frankford Yellow Jackets . They lost the game 31 - 6 . Despite the loss , hopes were high for the team ' s second game , against the Milwaukee Badgers . However the result was a 21 - 0 defeat . The big game and the home opener , which became the only game the professional Maroons would ever play in Kenosha , was scheduled for Sunday October 19 , 1924 against the Hammond Pros . Newspaper reports state that the weather was perfect , and remained warm during the first half of the Maroons - Pros contest which ended in scoreless tie . However the wind shifted and a sharp breeze cooled off the thousand or so spectators at Nash Field . On the gridiron things heated up . Capping a third quarter drive , fullback Seasholtz hurtled over the goal for a Maroon touchdown . He missed the conversion kick . However the Pros came back to score with a minute left in the game . Maroons ' tackle Fritz Heinisch , a Racine native , blocked the extra point try to preserve the final tie which was considered almost a moral victory for the underdog home team . The game drew about 600 spectators in attendance , which was considerably less than a victory since other NFL teams , like the Green Bay Packers , who could draw 5 , 000 hometown fans to a game . Injuries in the Hamond game were costly . Usher broke his nose , Simpson injured his neck , and Potteiger suffered a broken arm that finished him for the season . From that point , it was all downhill for the Maroons . On October 26 , 1924 , the team played a strong Duluth Kelleys team . With a powerful running attack , mixed with passes , the Kelleys wiped out the Kenoshans , 32 - 0 . The Maroons failed to make a first down all afternoon . A game with the Waukegan Elks of the lesser Midwest League was scheduled for November 2 . At the last minute , however , the Illinois team cancelled out . Some claimed that Midwest officials pressured Waukegan not to play outside its league . When manager Johnson was unable to schedule a replacement game , November 2 became an open date . Citing the missed game and the poor local attendance at the Hammond contest , a Racine sportswriter claimed pro football in Kenosha was " a flop " and predicted the Maroons would not finish the season . A Maroons spokesman dismissed the accusations and announced the team would travel to Buffalo , New York the following weekend to play the Buffalo Bisons . But there was uncertainty in the air as Johnson announced that there would be a big announcement after the Buffalo game . At Buffalo , the Maroons lost 27 - 0 to the Bisons . Ten Days later the " high - priced " Maroons players were released from their contracts and the original team disbanded . In a startling development , the local financial backers announced they were keeping the franchise and had bought the winning , but financially troubled , Duluth Kelleys . The Duluth players were to simply switch jerseys and become the new Kenosha Maroons . The Kelleys were tied for fourth place in the league with the Packers and the Chicago Cardinals . On Thanksgiving Day 1924 a game between the new Maroons and the Racine Horlick - Legion was announced , as was another , just three days later , on November 30 , 1924 with the NFL ' s Kansas City Cowboys . However neither game was played . The Kelleys went back to Duluth to play several more years . For Kenosha the season ended dismally with a 0 - 4 - 1 record . The Maroons tied with the winless Minneapolis Marines and the Rochester Jeffersons for last place in the NFL . Aftermath . The final chapter of the Maroons history is missing from the sports pages of the local paper . There were no announcements of the cancelling of the final two games . And it went unreported when the franchise was lost . However an error in the NFL records , which still exists today , shows that the Maroons lost a fifth game that season to the Rock Island Independents . That phantom game , claimed as a victory by Rock Island but never played by the Maroons , appears , incorrectly , in NFL records as the Kenosha team ' s fifth loss of its only season .