[8] They went 7–1–1 in 1948 before playing in the city championship again opposite the Bombers,[2] which they won for the third year in a row with a score of 30–6.
[9] Renamed the Wiedemann Buds,[10] they played for the city championship against the Dayton Bombers again in 1949[11] and won their fourth title, 25–6.
[12] The Dayton Rockets fielded a new team for the 1953 season under head coach Bob Puckett.
[22][23] They also earned the mythical Midwest semi-professional football title after beating the St. Louis Raiders.
[34] Ed McCracken became the head coach, with Zimmerman resigning to become the team's starting quarterback.
[36] An application for a franchise from Dayton, Ohio, in the Midwest Football League was approved on March 11, 1962.
[40] The Spartans finished the 1963 season in second place with a 6–3–1 record,[a 1] and they won the Dayton city semi-professional football championship in a win over Hudson Bar, 7–6.
[42] They defeated Hudson Bar after the season, 32–6,[47] to win the Dayton semi-professional football championship for a second consecutive year.
[49] The Colts had to cancel and forfeit a game against the Milan Vikings due to bad weather.
[52] John Abel from Pontiac was named commissioner of the league in January 1966, replacing McCracken, who resigned to be the head coach for the Dayton Colts.
[53][54] The Dayton Colts played an exhibition game of basketball with the National Football League's Cleveland Browns in March 1966 as a fundraiser.
[63] The Dayton Colts were suspended for the season due to financial conditions,[64] but fielded an independent team and played games against members of the league.
[68][69][70] The league prevented players being paid salaries for 1971 after financial struggles the previous season.
[74] The Bucks were scheduled to play the second-place team in the Central Division, the Flint Wildcats, in the first round of the playoffs, but the opponent was replaced by the Michigan Barons due to eligibility concerns with Flint's roster.
[78] After the championship game, Columbus played against the Pennsylvania Bruins of the Interstate League.
[85] By August 1973, the NFL had sent $11,000 to MFL teams during the season in exchange for being able to sign 11 of their players, including four from Columbus.