Cumberland Cardinals
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The Cumberland Valley Cardinals are a semiprofessional outdoor football team from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. They play in the North American Football League.
[edit] Brief Stint in the AIFL
After a reorganization of the American Indoor Football League that saw the departure of the Carolina Ghostriders and the Syracuse Soldiers, the Cardinals were asked to fill two holes in the schedule. In their first game against the nearby Johnstown Riverhawks, the Cardinals lost by a score of 68 to 0, billed as the first shutout in AIFL history, although, since it was an AIFL team against a non-AIFL team, that would not be a fair comparison. Their second game against league powerhouse Reading Express had a similar result, a 74-0 loss. As a result, the AIFL declared that all records set against the Cardinals and the Ghostchasers, a road team hastily established to fill the schedule of another road team, the Carolina Ghostriders, would be marked with an asterisk. Cumberland Valley has, to this point, only played AIFL teams from their home state of Pennsylvania.
[edit] References
- AIFL Score Summary: Riverhawks 68, Cardinals 0
- AIFL: Records set against Cardinals, Ghostchasers to be asterisked
| American Indoor Football Association (AIFA) | ||||||
| Northern Conference | Southern Conference | |||||
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| Canton Legends | Danville Demolition | Erie Freeze | Huntington Heroes | Johnstown Riverhawks | Pittsburgh RiverRats | Reading Express | Baltimore Blackbirds | Carolina Speed | Florence Phantoms | Lakeland Thunderbolts | Mississippi Mudcats | Montgomery Bears | Tallahassee Titans | |||||
| Defunct AIFL/AIFA teams: AIFL Ghostchasers | Binghamton Brigade/Brigadiers | Carolina Ghostriders | Carolina Sharks | Chattahoochee Valley Vipers | Syracuse Soldiers | ||||||
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