1926 Rock Island Independents season
Team W L T Pct PF PA Head Coach
Philadelphia Quakers 8 2 0 .800 93 52 Bob Folwell
New York Yankees 10 5 0 .667 212 82 Ralph Scott
Cleveland Panthers 3 2 0 .600 62 46 Roy Watts
Los Angeles Wildcats 6 6 2 .500 105 83 Jim Clark
Chicago Bulls 5 6 3 .455 88 69 Joey Sternaman
Boston Bulldogs 2 4 0 .333 20 81 Herb Treat
Rock Island Independents 2 6 1 .250 21 126 Johnny Armstrong
Brooklyn Horsemen 1 3 0 .250 25 68 Eddie McNeeley
Newark Bears 0 3 2 .000 7 26 Hal Hansen
League standings
The 1926 Rock Island Independents season was their only season in the first American Football League, after jumping to the upstart league from the National Football League. The team finished 2-6 in league play and 2-7-2 overall, earning them seventh place in the league. The Independents struggled to bring in 5000 fans to its home games and later became a traveling team after having poor attendance in its first three games. The AFL folded after the 1926 and the Independents did not rejoin the NFL. They instead played as a minor, semi-pro team in 1927, then folded.