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    The Providence Steam Rollers (also referred to as the Providence Steam Roller, the Providence Steamroller and the Providence Steamrollers) were a professional...
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    York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East...
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  • The next day, Detroit (3–1–0) lost 0-7 at Providence (4–1–0), and the Yellow Jackets and the Steamrollers were tied for the lead at the end of Week Seven...
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    the 1920s and 1930s, and the National Basketball Association's Providence Steamrollers in the 1940s. The Rhode Island Auditorium also hosted 29 of the...
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    The now-defunct professional football team known as the Providence Steamrollers won the 1928 NFL title. They played in a 10,000 person stadium called the...
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  • Former NBA player for the Providence Steamrollers, the Baltimore Bullets, and the Boston Celtics Frank Ferrara – Former NFL defensive end for New York...
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  • teams joined with the ten BAA teams; the Indianapolis Jets and the Providence Steamrollers folded prior to the absorption. The Indianapolis Olympians, a planned...
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    Otto Schnellbacher (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
    Schnellbacher played for the Basketball Association of America's Providence Steamrollers and St. Louis Bombers in 1948–49 season. In college, Schnellbacher...
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    Hank Soar (category Providence Steamrollers coaches)
    recommended him for an umpiring career. After the war, Soar coached the Providence Steamrollers in the Basketball Association of America (now the NBA) in 1947...
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    Hust Stockton (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    in 1929, Stockton split time between the Boston Bulldogs and the Providence Steamroller. He was the grandfather of basketball Hall of Fame inductee, John...
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    (R.I.). p. C-17. Retrieved March 26, 2013. "Steamrollers Announce Broadcast Team". New England Steamrollers (news release). April 11, 1988. "Wilson to...
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    the 1947 Basketball Association of America (BAA) draft by the Providence Steamrollers. He elected to play in neither league and instead signed a free...
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  • William Pritchard (American football) (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    University and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Providence Steamrollers in 1927 and the New York Yankees in 1928. Pritchard served...
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    Firebirds (1968-1970) (affiliated with Philadelphia Eagles in 1969) Providence Steamroller (1962-1964) Quincy Giants (1969) Rhode Island Steelers (1966) Richmond...
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    Walt Dropo (category Providence Steamrollers draft picks)
    Draft by the Providence Steamrollers with the fourth overall pick. Dropo was also drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 9th round of the 1946 NFL Draft. Listed...
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    Joe Bellino (category NFL player missing current team parameter)
    of the National Football League (NFL). Bellino also played for the Providence Steamrollers semi-pro team in Providence, Rhode Island. Bellino is the only...
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    week, Orange experienced its first NFL loss in a 7–0 defeat to the 1928 NFL Champions, the Providence Steamroller. The team regrouped on October 19, 1929...
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  • Tom Kennedy (quarterback) (category NFL player missing current team parameter)
    Wheeling Ironmen of the United Football League from 1962–63; the Providence Steamrollers of the ACFL in 1964; the Rhode Island Indians of the Continental...
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  • owners of the N.F.L.'s Cleveland Rams, setting off a sequence of arrangements that tied the membership of the AA (except Providence) with the NFL. The raiding...
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    Fritz Pollard (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    the National Football League (NFL). Pollard and Bobby Marshall were the first two African-American players in the NFL in 1920. Football pioneer Walter...
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  • York bragging rights over MLB, the NFL and NHL for almost 14 months, until the Providence Steamrollers clinched the NFL title in December of that year)....
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  • positions for the All-Pro team of the National Football League (NFL) for the 1925 NFL season. For the 1925 season, there are four known selectors of All-Pro...
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    George Pyne III (category NFL player missing current team parameter)
    played professionally as a member of the National Football League's Providence Steamrollers. Pyne attended Milford High School, followed by Olivet College...
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  • Bert Shurtleff (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    player for seven years, seeing action with the New York Giants, Providence Steamroller and Boston Bulldogs. Later he wrestled professionally under the...
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  • Cycledrome (category Providence Friars football)
    Journal-Bulletin. "Steamroller football champs to be honored". Providence Journal. October 13, 1989. Reynolds, Bill (January 21, 1997). "Providence wore NFL crown...
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  • Lou Smyth (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    Hartford Blues, Rochester Jeffersons and the Providence Steamroller. Outside of the National Football League (NFL), he played for the Gilberton Cadamounts...
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  • Joe Delaney (tackle) (category Players of American football from Providence, Rhode Island)
    the 1939 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. He did not play with Chicago, and instead was a member of the minor league Providence Steamroller, appearing...
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  • Warren McGuirk (category Providence Steam Roller players)
    football for two season in the National Football League (NFL) with the Providence Steamrollers. From 1931 to 1942, he was head football coach and director...
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  • year after the NBA's inception, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75. Since then, the NBA has played...
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    Stan Robb (category NFL player with coaching information)
    fight and dismissed both of them. His final game came against the Providence Steamrollers on November 11, after which he left the team. Robb returned to...
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