Chicago Owls

(Future baseball star Greg Luzinski attended and played football for Notre Dame at the time.)

Bob Webb, who grew up in nearby Gary, Indiana, was the Owls' main quarterback; he would remain with the team in 1968.

After spending three seasons with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, former Arlington High School and Northern Illinois University Huskies star George Bork returned to Chicago as the Owls' starting quarterback in 1968.

Playing primarily on Saturdays, the club drew only 35,835 fans to cavernous Soldier Field all season, or less than 6,000 a game.

Despite this setback, the Trans-American Football League announced it would include the Chicago Owls on its schedule for 1970,[5] but the team folded prior to the start of the season.