New York Giants (informally known as "Brickley's Giants") was a professional football team with the American Professional Football Association (now NFL) whose only season played was in 1921. The team has also been referred to as Brickley's Giants and Brickley's Brooklyn Giants. The Brickley's Giants was the first of 17 professional football teams to represent New York City at one time or another. The team was originally founded in 1919 by Charles Brickley, who received All-American honors while at Harvard. Brickley's Giants played two games in their only season, losing to the Buffalo All-Americans, 55-0, and the Cleveland Tigers, 17-0. It was the second shortest lived franchise in NFL history, behind only the Tonawanda Kardex, who played only one game in the same 1921 season.
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| - New York Giants (informally known as "Brickley's Giants") was a professional football team with the American Professional Football Association (now NFL) whose only season played was in 1921. The team has also been referred to as Brickley's Giants and Brickley's Brooklyn Giants. The Brickley's Giants was the first of 17 professional football teams to represent New York City at one time or another. The team was originally founded in 1919 by Charles Brickley, who received All-American honors while at Harvard. Brickley's Giants played two games in their only season, losing to the Buffalo All-Americans, 55-0, and the Cleveland Tigers, 17-0. It was the second shortest lived franchise in NFL history, behind only the Tonawanda Kardex, who played only one game in the same 1921 season.
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| - New York Giants (informally known as "Brickley's Giants") was a professional football team with the American Professional Football Association (now NFL) whose only season played was in 1921. The team has also been referred to as Brickley's Giants and Brickley's Brooklyn Giants. The Brickley's Giants was the first of 17 professional football teams to represent New York City at one time or another. The team was originally founded in 1919 by Charles Brickley, who received All-American honors while at Harvard. Brickley's Giants played two games in their only season, losing to the Buffalo All-Americans, 55-0, and the Cleveland Tigers, 17-0. It was the second shortest lived franchise in NFL history, behind only the Tonawanda Kardex, who played only one game in the same 1921 season.
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