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{{short description|American football team from Toledo, Ohio}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox Pre-modern NFL team
| name = Toledo Maroons
| bgcolor = #862633
| fontcolor = White
| helmet = 
| logo = ToledoT.svg
| founded =  1902
| suspended = 
| folded = 1923 (Unofficially<ref name="Total Football"/> transferred to [[Kenosha Maroons|Kenosha]])
| location = [[Toledo, Ohio]], [[United States]]
| field =  [[Armory Park]] (1902–1908, 1923)<br /> [[Swayne Field]] (1909–1922) 
| league = [[Ohio League]] (1902–1921)<br />[[National Football League]] (1922–1923)
| division = 
| colors = Maroon, White<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/teams/1923_Toledo.html |title=The Gridiron Uniform Database |access-date=2013-10-17 |archive-date=2013-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017122110/http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/teams/1923_Toledo.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{{color box|#862633}} {{color box|white}}
| history = Toledo Athletic Association (1902–1906) <br />Toledo Maroons (1906–23)
| nickname = 
| coach = [[Guil Falcon]] 
| manager = 
| championships = 
| mascot = 
| website =
}}

The '''Toledo Maroons''' were a professional [[American football]] team based in [[Toledo, Ohio]] in the [[National Football League]] in [[1922 NFL season|1922]] and [[1923 NFL season|1923]]. Prior to joining the NFL, the Maroons played in the unofficial "[[Ohio League]]" from 1902 until 1921.

==History==

===Origins===
The Maroons originated as a [[semi-professional|semi-pro]] football team known as the '''Toledo Athletic Association''',  in 1902. The Association formed the Toledo Maroons in 1906 as a [[farm team]] for teenagers who could later move up to playing for the Association's senior team. However, in 1908, the Association was forced to disband after the owners of [[Armory Park]], where the team played, no longer wanted the field torn up by cleats. Despite the setback, the Maroons kept playing on other fields. By 1909, the former teenagers were adults, still playing organized football, and they began to play against numerous amateur and semi-pro opponents from outside the area.

Beginning in 1915, the Maroons were playing some very strong opposition, including such future NFL teams as the [[Columbus Panhandles]], the Dayton Gym Cadets (later known as the [[Dayton Triangles]]), and the [[Cincinnati Celts]].

===NFL===
When the American Professional Football Association was organized in 1920, Toledo chose to remain an independent team. However, in 1922, the Maroons joined the league, now renamed the National Football League.

The Maroons finished fourth with a 5–2–2 record that season, then dropped to 3–3–2 in 1923. Attendance was poor in Toledo, so the franchise moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and dropped out of the league after an 0–4–1 record in 1924. The Maroons ran up a 5–2–2 record in their initial 1922 season. However, the level of competition was suspect. Their opponents' combined mark was only 7–23–2. The Maroons scheduled easy opponents again in 1923 and finished this season at 3–3–2. However, when they were blasted 28–0 in the last game of the season by the [[Canton Bulldogs]], the Toledo squad played its last game.

After the 1923 season ended, the league ordered the team to either transfer or suspend operations. The team's players and personnel did eventually move to [[Kenosha, Wisconsin]] to play as the [[Kenosha Maroons]] for the [[1924 NFL season|1924 season]]. However no conclusive evidence exists that the Toledo franchise was officially transferred to Kenosha.<ref name="Total Football">{{cite book | title=Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League | editor1-first=Bob | editor1-last=Carroll | editor2-first=Michael | editor2-last=Gershman | editor3-first=David | editor3-last=Neft | editor4-first=John |display-editors = 3 | editor4-last=Thorn | publisher=Harper Collins | year=1997 | page=96 | quote=It appears, though no conclusive evidence exists, that the Toledo Franchise was transferred to Kenosha}}</ref>

==Season-by-season==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! W !! L !! T !! Finish !! Coach
|-
| 1910 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 9th Ohio|| rowspan=5|Travis Sherman
|-
| 1911 || 7 || 2 || 1 || 6th Ohio
|-
| 1912 || 4 || 3 || 0 || 7th Ohio 
|-
| 1913 || 8 || 1 || 1 || 3rd Ohio
|-
| 1914 || 7 || 2 || 0 || 4th Ohio
|-
| 1915 || 7 || 2 || 2 || 5th Ohio|| rowspan=3|Rich Reno
|-
| 1916 || 8 || 3 || 1 || 7th Ohio
|-
| 1917 || 3 || 7 || 0 || 7th Ohio
|-
| 1918 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2nd Ohio|| Alex Weir
|-
| 1919 || 4 || 2 || 2 || 5th Ohio|| rowspan=2|Richie Bobbet
|-
| 1920 || 1 || 3 || 0 || ? 
|-
| 1922 || 5 || 2 || 2 || 4th || rowspan=2|[[Guil Falcon]]
|-
| 1923 || 3 || 3 || 2 || 11th 
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.hickoksports.com/history/toledomaroons.shtml#other Index to NFL Franchise Histories: Toledo Maroons]
*[http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2361 Ohio History Central: Toledo Maroons]
*[https://archive.today/20240524164800/https://www.webcitation.org/5ko0KxKar?url=http://www.geocities.com/krd4052/FootballResearch/ohio/ohtolmar.htm Maroons season records]

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