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{{short description|1926 National Football League team}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox Pre-modern NFL team
| name = Los Angeles Buccaneers
| bgcolor = f03a16
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| logo = LABuccaneers26.png
| founded = 1926
| suspended =
| folded = 1927
| relocated =
| location = [[Los Angeles, California]], [[United States]] (nominally)
| field = [[traveling team|Traveling Team]]
| league = [[National Football League]]
| image = Los Angeles Buccaneers - Starting Team - 1926.jpg
| caption = Starting Team, 1924 Los Angeles Buccaneers 
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| colors = Orange, black, white <br> {{color box|#f03a16|border=silver}}{{color box|black|border=silver}}{{color box|white|border=silver}}
| history = '''Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926–1927)'''
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| coach = [[Tut Imlay]] (1926)<br /> [[Brick Muller]] (1926–1927)
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The '''Los Angeles Buccaneers''' were a [[traveling team]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) during the 1926 season, ostensibly representing the city of [[Los Angeles]], California. Like the [[Los Angeles Wildcats (AFL)|Los Angeles Wildcats]] of the [[American Football League (1926)|first American Football League]], the team never actually played a league game in Los Angeles.  It was operated out of [[Chicago]] with players from California colleges (or who grew up in California<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~maxymuk/home/ongoing/la.html |title=Ongoing Research Project: Los Angeles Buccaneers |publisher=Rci.rutgers.edu |date= |accessdate=May 14, 2010}} see https://crab.rutgers.edu/users/maxymuk/home/ongoing/la.html retrieved September 29, 2024</ref>).

The historian Michael McCambridge has stated that the Buccaneers originally planned to play in  the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]], and became a road team only after the Coliseum Commission refused to allow professional teams to play there.<ref name="epic-game">McCambridge, Michael: ''America's game: the epic story of how pro football captured a nation'' (Random House, 2005), pp. 16–17</ref>  The difficulty of transcontinental travel in the era before modern air travel, though, must have been a major factor in the decision to base the team in the Midwest, especially considering numerous other stadiums were large enough to accommodate an NFL team (the [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]] and [[Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)|Wrigley Field of Los Angeles]] being among them), had the league desired to pursue that route.  Despite being rejected by the Coliseum, the Buccaneers did play two true home games in Los Angeles, both of them [[exhibition game]]s against the AFL's [[New York Yankees (NFL)|New York Yankees]] in January 1927. The Buccaneers also played two games in San Francisco, including the last game of the Buccaneers' existence, an exhibition game against the Wildcats, with the Buccaneers being shut out, 17–0, on January 23, 1927. Because of this, the NFL officially considers the team's home city to be Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d812e0d97&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true |title=Settlement between SoCal cities clears NFL stadium hurdle |website=[[NFL.com]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926070201/http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d812e0d97&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true |archive-date=2009-09-26}}</ref>

==Season-by-season==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! W !! L !! T !! Finish!!Coach
|-
| 1926 || 6 || 3 || 1 || 6th||[[Tut Imlay]], [[Brick Muller]]
|}

==Roster==
{| class="toccolours" style="text-align: left;"
|-
! colspan="9" style="background-color: #f03a16;color:black;2px solid black text-align: center;"|Los Angeles Buccaneers 1926 roster
|-
| style="font-size: 95%;" valign="top" | '''Quarterbacks'''
* {{player|10}} [[Tut Imlay]]

'''Running backs'''
* {{player|--}} [[Ben Bangs]] WB
* {{player|18}} [[Bull Finch]] FB
* {{player|--}} [[Bill Gutteron]] FB
* {{player|13}} [[Tuffy Maul]] FB
* {{player|55}} [[Artie Sandberg]] FB/WB
* {{player|40}} [[Pete Schaffnit]] FB/WB
* {{player|74}} [[Ellery White]] FB/WB
* {{player|16}} [[Al Young (American football, born 1902)|Al Young]] FB/WB

'''Ends'''
* {{player|33}} [[Del Hufford]]
* {{player|88}} [[Brick Muller]] 
* {{player|40}} [[Pete Schaffnit]]

'''Linemen'''
* {{player|--}} [[Juddy Ash]] G
* {{player|21}} [[Fred Beach]] G
* {{player|81}} [[Jack McArthur]] G/T/C
* {{player|17}} [[Don Newmeyer]] T
* {{player|71}} [[John Nolan (guard)|John Nolan]] G
* {{player|56}} [[Don Thompson (offensive lineman)|Don Thompson]] G
* {{player|12}} [[John Thurman (American football)|John Thurman]] T
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~maxymuk/home/ongoing/la.html|title=Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926)|work=Ongoing Research Project|publisher=Rutgers University|first=John|last=Maxymuk|accessdate=June 18, 2015}}</ref>
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|}

==All-time record==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! Opponent
! W
! L
! T
! PF
! PA
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Brooklyn Lions]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 20
| 0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Canton Bulldogs]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 16
| 13
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Detroit (1920s NFL teams)|Detroit Panthers]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 9
| 6
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Milwaukee Badgers]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 6
| 0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[New York Giants]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 6
| 0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Providence Steam Roller]]
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 7
| 6
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Buffalo Rangers]]
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Chicago Cardinals]]
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 15
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Kansas City (NFL)|Kansas City Blues]]
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 3
| 7
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Pottsville Maroons]]
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 10
|}

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