[3] Kenosha felt that the team would be successful under the direction of George Johnson, an umpire in the Midwest Baseball League.
Financial support was offered by the Nash and Simmons companies, long-time sponsors of local athletic teams.
Newspaper reports state that the weather was perfect, and remained warm during the first half of the Maroons-Pros contest which ended in scoreless tie.
However, the wind shifted and a sharp breeze cooled off the thousand or so spectators at Nash Field.
Maroons' tackle Fritz Heinisch, a Racine native, blocked the extra point try to preserve the final tie which was considered almost a moral victory for the underdog home team.
Usher broke his nose, Simpson injured his neck, and Potteiger suffered a broken arm that finished him for the season.
Citing the missed game and the poor local attendance at the Hammond contest, a Racine sportswriter claimed pro football in Kenosha was "a flop" and predicted the Maroons would not finish the season.
Ten Days later the "high-priced" Maroons players were released from their contracts and the original team disbanded.
The final chapter of the Maroons history is missing from the sports pages of the local paper.
However an error in the NFL records, which persists today, shows that the Maroons lost a fifth game that season to the Rock Island Independents.
That phantom game, claimed as a victory by Rock Island, appears incorrectly in NFL records as the Kenosha team's fifth loss of its only season.