Editing Akron Pros (section)

{{short description|Early era National Football League team in the US}}
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{{Infobox Pre-modern NFL team
| name = Akron Pros 
| bgcolor = #1034A6
| fontcolor = White
| logo = 
| founded = 1908
| suspended = 
| folded = 1927
| relocated =
| location = [[Akron, Ohio]], United States
| field = [[League Park (Akron)|League Park]]
| league = [[Ohio League]] (1908–1919)<br />[[National Football League]] (1920–1926)
| conference =
| division = 
| colors = Blue, white<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ssur.org/research/TeamColors/Football_Outdoor/NationalFootballLeague/NationalFootballLeague.htm |title=Team Colors – NFL: National Football League – 1922 to Present |publisher=ColorWerx |access-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316055522/http://www.ssur.org/research/TeamColors/Football_Outdoor/NationalFootballLeague/NationalFootballLeague.htm |archive-date=March 16, 2012 }}</ref> <br>  {{color box|#00338D}} {{color box|white}}
| history = Akron Indians (1908–1916)<br>Akron Burkhardts (1916–1917)<br>Akron Indians (1918–1919)<br>'''Akron Pros (1920–1925)'''<br>Akron Indians (1926)
| nickname = 
| coach = [[Peggy Parratt]] (1912–1915)<br>[[Ralph Waldsmith]] (1916)<br>[[Suey Welch]] (1917–1918)<br>[[Ralph Waldsmith]] (1919)<br>[[Elgie Tobin]] (1920–1921)<br>[[Fritz Pollard]] (1921)<br>[[Brooke Brewer|Untz Brewer]] (1922)<br>[[Earl Cramer]] & [[Dutch Hendrian]] (1923)<br>[[Jim Flower (American football)|Jim Flower]] (1924)<br>George Barry (1925)<br>[[Rube Ursella]] & [[Al Nesser]] (1926) 
| manager = [[Art Ranney]] (1919–1927)
| owner = 
| championships = 1 ([[1920 Akron Pros season|1920]])
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| Other League championships =
| Ohio League championships = 4 (1908, 1909, 1913, 1914)
| Undefeated seasons = 3 (1908, 1909, [[1920 Akron Pros season|1920]])
| named for =
| mascot = 
| website =
}}

The '''Akron Pros''' were a professional [[American football|football]] team that played in [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]], [[Ohio]] from 1908 to 1926. The team originated in 1908 as a [[semi-professional|semi-pro]] team named the '''Akron Indians''', but later became Akron Pros in 1920 as the team set out to become a charter member of the American Professional Football Association (later renamed the [[National Football League]] (NFL) in 1922). [[Fritz Pollard]], the first black head coach in the NFL, co-coached the Akron Pros in 1921. [[Paul Robeson]] played for the team in 1921 as well. He was among the earliest stars of professional football before football became segregated from 1934 to 1946. In 1926, the name was changed back to the Akron Indians, after the earlier semi-pro team. Due to financial problems, the team suspended operations in 1927 and [[List of defunct National Football League franchises|surrendered its franchise]] the following year.<ref>Siwoff, Seymour, & Marini (2010), p. 350</ref>