The Los Angeles Buccaneers were a traveling team

Traveling team

In professional team sports, a traveling team is a member of a professional league that never or rarely competes in its home arena or stadium. This differs from a barnstorming team in that the latter does not compete within a league or association framework...

 in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 during their one season 1926, ostensibly representing the city of Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. Like the Los Angeles Wildcats

Los Angeles Wildcats

The Los Angeles Wildcats was a traveling team of the first American Football League that was not based in its nominal home city but in Chicago, Illinois...

 of the first American Football League, the team never actually played a league game in Los Angeles. It was operated out of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 with players from California colleges. The historian Michael McCambridge has stated that the Buccaneers originally planned to play in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a large outdoor sports stadium in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, at Exposition Park, that is home to the Pacific-12 Conference's University of Southern California Trojans football team...

 and became a road team only after the Coliseum Commission banned pro teams from its stadium. However, the difficulty of transcontinental travel in the era before modern air travel must have been a major factor in the decision to base the team in the Midwest, especially considering there were numerous other stadium options available for the league (the Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl (stadium)

The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California, U.S., in Los Angeles County. The stadium is the site of the annual college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl, held on New Year's Day. In 1982, it became the home field of the UCLA Bruins college football team of the Pac-12...

 and Wrigley Field of Los Angeles

Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)

Wrigley Field was a ballpark in Los Angeles, California which served as host to minor league baseball teams in the region for over 30 years, and was the home park for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League as well as a current major league team, the later Los Angeles Angels, in their...

 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

Exhibition game

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s against the AFL's New York Yankees

New York Yankees (NFL)

The New York Yankees were a short-lived professional American football team from 1926 to 1928. The team was a member of the first American Football League in 1926, and later the National Football League from 1927-1928. They played their home games at Yankee Stadium...

 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.

Season-by-season

Year	W	L	T	Finish	Coach
1926	6	3	1	6th	Tut Imlay Tut Imlay Talma W. "Tut" Imlay was a professional football player who played two seasons in the National Football League in 1926 and in 1927. During those two years, Tut played for the Los Angeles Buccaneers and the New York Giants. In 1927, Tut won an NFL Championship with the Giants... , Brick Muller

Roster

Name	Position
Juddy Ash Juddy Ash Julian Samuel "Juddy" Ash was a professional football player who played in the National Football League. He played only one year in the NFL, during the 1926 season for the Los Angeles Buccaneers.-References:**...	G
Ben Bangs Ben Bangs Benton M. Bangs, Jr.was a professional football player who played in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926. He played only one season in the NFL.-References:*...	WB
Fred Beach Fred Beach Frederick Cantrell Beach was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league.-References:*...	G
Bull Finch Bull Finch Olen "Bull" Finch was a professional football player who played in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Buccaneers in 1926. He played only one season in the NFL.-References:*...	FB
Bill Gutteron Bill Gutteron William Alexander Gutteron was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league.-Notes:...	FB
Del Hufford Del Hufford Guy Darrell Hufford was a professional football player in the National Football League. In 1926, he played for the Los Angeles Buccaneers, a traveling team based in Chicago.-References:*...	E
Tut Imlay Tut Imlay Talma W. "Tut" Imlay was a professional football player who played two seasons in the National Football League in 1926 and in 1927. During those two years, Tut played for the Los Angeles Buccaneers and the New York Giants. In 1927, Tut won an NFL Championship with the Giants...	RB/WB/FB/HC
Tuffy Maul Tuffy Maul Elmo Alvin Maul was a professional football player in the National Football League. Maul made his debut in the NFL in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league.-Notes:...	FB
Jack McArthur Jack McArthur Jackson I. McArthur was a professional football player in the National Football League He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers...	C/T/G/E
Brick Muller	E/HC
Don Newmeyer Don Newmeyer Donald Charles "Don" Newmeyer was head of the Physical Education Department and Head Football Coach at Los Angeles City College...	T
John Nolan John Nolan (American football) John "Jack" Ervin Nolan was a professional football player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Gardena High School before attending Santa Clara University....	G
Artie Sandberg Artie Sandberg Arthur Clarence Sandberg was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He returned to NFL in 1929 and played for the Minneapolis Red Jackets.-Notes:...	FB/WB
Pete Schaffnit Pete Schaffnit Peter Cornelius Schaffnit was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league....	E/FB/WB
Don Thompson Don Thompson (American football) Robert Donald Thompson was a professional football player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He grew up in Dayton, Indiana and later attended the University of Redlands.-Notes:...	G
John Thurman John Thurman (American football) John Cochran Thurman was a professional football player for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He grew up in Pasadena before attending the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, Thurman received All-American honors in 1922.-See...	T
Ellery White Ellery White Ellery White was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league.-Notes:...	WB/FB
Al Young Al Young (American football) John Allen Young was a professional football player in the National Football League. He made his NFL debut in 1926 with the Los Angeles Buccaneers. He played only one season in the league.-Notes:...	WB/FB/RB

All time record

Opponent	W	L	T	PF	PA
Brooklyn Lions	1	0	0	20	0
Canton Bulldogs Canton Bulldogs The Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio. They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and its successor, the National Football League, from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1926. The Bulldogs would go on to win the 1917, 1918...	1	0	0	16	13
Detroit Panthers	1	0	0	9	6
Milwaukee Badgers Milwaukee Badgers The Milwaukee Badgers were a professional American football team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926. The team played its home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side...	1	0	0	6	0
New York Giants New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	1	0	0	6	0
Providence Steam Roller Providence Steam Roller The Providence Steam Roller was a professional American football team based in Providence, Rhode Island in the National Football League from 1925 to 1931. Providence was the first New England team to win an NFL championship...	1	0	0	7	6
Buffalo Rangers	0	0	1	0	0
Chicago Cardinals	0	1	0	0	15
Kansas City Blues Kansas City (NFL) Kansas City, Missouri had a National Football League team prior to the Chiefs that operated under two different names: The Blues in 1924 and the Cowboys from 1925-1926. The Blues competed as a traveling team, playing all of their NFL games in other cities' stadia in their only year under that name...	0	1	0	3	7
Pottsville Maroons Pottsville Maroons The Pottsville Maroons were an American football team based in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1920, they went on to play in the National Football League for four seasons, from 1925–1928...	0	1	0	0	10