Midwest Football League (1935–1940): Difference between revisions

In its second year the MFL was transformed from an informal collection of teams to an official minor league of professional [[American football]]. A second team from Cincinnati, the Treslers (named after sponsor Tresler Oil),<ref name="Back Before Bengalmania 1989">[http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/11-05-379.pdf Back Before Bengalmania: Cincinnati's First Brush With the Big Time] – Bob Gill, Professional Football Researchers Association (1989)</ref> was added and 1935 tri-champion Indians were replaced by another team from Indianapolis, the Leons. After a regular season in which the Cincinnati Models finished with an undefeated, untied record, the Louisville Tanks defeated them in the league championship game, 2-0<ref>some sources, such as [http://www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/11-05-379.pdf Back Before Bengalmania: Cincinnati's First Brush With the Big Time] report that the league had a Shaughnessy playoff in which the first place Models played the fourth place [[Springfield Bicos]] while the second place Tanks played the third place [[Dayton Rosies]], with the Models and Tanks advancing to the championship.</ref> Two weeks later, the Models defeated the Tanks in a rematch, 19-7, but the MWL considered the contest to be an [[exhibition game]] with no effect on the status of the league championship.