The Rhode Island Indians were a minor league football team that played a single season in the Continental Football League during the autumn of 1965. The team played at City Stadium in Providence. The Indians were dreadful, finishing their only season at 3-14 before going out of business. But starting quarterback Tom Kennedy would go on to play 6 games for the NFL’s New York Giants the following year in 1966.
The Providence Steamroller were one of six founding teams in the Atlantic Coast Football League in 1962. The ACFL franchise adopted the “Steamroller” name used by several Providence football teams of the past dating back to 1916. Most notably, Providence had an entry known as the Steamrollers in the very early days of the National Football League from 1925 until 1931.
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