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The team was founded by the Hopkins Brothers sporting goods stores.

He did not pay for rooms for his players, however, instead having them sleep the night before the game in tents they brought with them on the field on which they would play.

Under Wilkinson, the team became "strong enough to give any major league club a nip and tuck battle", according to Sporting Life.

The team encountered difficulties during World War I, when it found most of its better players were drafted, and was finally disbanded in 1918.

Wilkinson and was used as a traveling team that trained inexperienced players and found talent in the Midwest.