The Chargers were a strong Chicago-area amateur/semi-pro football squad that played from 1977 through at least 1986. Between 1977 and 1985 the Chargers posted a cumulative record of 96-28, including a perfect 13-0 season in 1985 and a semi-pro “national championship” in 1986.
The Chicago Cats were a second division pro soccer club that tried to make a go of it in the Windy City for two summers in the mid-1970’s. The club started up in 1975, the same year that the top division Chicago Sting began play. The Cats made their home at Hanson Stadium, an Astroturfed high school football field run by the Chicago Public School system.
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