Tag: Portland Memorial Coliseum

2000 Portland Prowlers Program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Portland Prowlers

February 23, 2023

The Portland Prowlers were an indoor football team that competed for one season in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) during the summer of 2000. The Prowlers came into the Rose City on the heels of the departing Portland Forest Dragons of the Arena Football League, a higher-profile and bigger budget franchise that left town for Oklahoma City following the 1999 season. While the Forest Dragons played at the city’s sparkling new 18,000-seat Rose Garden arena, the Prowlers set up shop at Portland’s “old” NBA arena, Memorial Coliseum.

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1960-61 Portland Buckaroos Program from the Western Hockey League

Portland Buckaroos (1960-1976)

February 11, 2023

The Portland Buckaroos were a popular, powerhouse minor league hockey club of the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The club formed as a Western Hockey League expansion team in the fall of 1960, set to play in the brand new Portland Memorial Coliseum that would open its doors to the public that November. The Buckaroos were consistently terrific on the ice. In fourteen seasons of action, the Bucks suffered only one losing campaign and appeared in the Lester Patrick Cup Finals an amazing nine times.

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Seattle Cascades World Team Tennis

Sea-Port Cascades / Seattle Cascades

May 28, 2019

The Cascades were a co-ed tennis promotion that arrived in the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1977 after relocating from Honolulu. Known at first as the “Sea-Port” Cascades, the team split their 1977 home dates between the NBA arenas in Seattle and Portland. Though the team had relatively few stars of its own, opposing World Team Tennis clubs brought major stars of the day such as Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and Bjorn Borg to town for league competition. The Cascades committed more fully to Seattle for their second and final season in 1978, dropping the “Port” from their name. The team disbanded along with the rest of World Team Tennis in late 1978.

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Portland Timbers NASL

Portland Timbers (1975-1982)

May 12, 2014

The Portland Timbers were an iconic North American Soccer League (NASL) franchise that helped earn Portland the nickname “Soccer City U.S.A.”.  The original Timbers (1975-1982) sparked a youth soccer boom in the Rose City and inspired numerous reunions, revivals and re-births over the years, culminating in the acceptance of a new Portland Timbers club into Major League Soccer in 2011. The highpoint for the NASL-era Timbers was the team’s 1975 debut, when Vic Crowe’s club posted a 16-6 record and advanced to the NASL’s Soccer Bowl final in their inaugural campaign.

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1996-97 Portland Pride media guide from the American Basketball League

Portland Power

August 8, 2013

The Portland Power were the Rose City’s original women’s professional basketball team, playing parts of three seasons between 1996 and 1998. The team set up show in 1996 at Memorial Coliseum, abandoned a year earlier by the NBA’s Trail Blazers in favor of the newly opened Rose Garden Arena. 6′ 2″ former UCLA center Natalie Williams established herself as one the American Basketball League’s top players, leading the league in scoring and rebounding en route to MVP honors in 1998. Although one of the ABL’s more popular team, the Power abruptly closed for a business a few days before Christmas in 1998 when the league disbanded midway through its third season.

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