The 1921 Hammond Pros season was their second completed in the young American Professional Football Association (APFA), a league soon to reorganize as the National Football League (NFL). The team only managed to play five games against APFA opponents, winning just one of these contests.[1]
The Pros, managed by "Doc" Alva Young, were unable to find an opponent on one prime fall Sunday, October 23, when they "learned at the last minute" that their planned foe, the Detroit Tigers, did not actually have an available opening on their schedule.[2] This minor catastrophe was followed the next weekend by another disaster, when a scheduled game with the Chicago Cardinals was postponed due to heavy rains that transformed Normal Park into an unplayable sea of mud.[3] While that contest was merely rolled back seven days, another prime fall game day was nevertheless lost.
Weather again became problematic in November, when a scheduled game against All-American Fritz Pollard and the Chicago Morris Supremes[4] was canceled when torrential percipitation turned the infield dirt of Comiskey Park into a slop bowl.[5] The teams were eventually able to reschedule for Boxing Day at the International Amphitheater, a horse-racing track with a covered grandstand. This was no blessing — the Pros were crushed in this late season contest, 42 to 0, capping what must have been regarded as a miserable year and unsuccessful year.
The Hammond Pros managed just one field goal and two touchdowns in 8 games played in 1921.
