Event Date: August 31st, 1983
Event Description: Indianapolis IFL
Source: United Press International
Indianapolis has been awarded a franchise in the new International Football League, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, real estate developer Max Bartlett will be its owner, the Indianapolis News reported Wednesday.
Bartlett, 48, has asked the Indianapolis Capital Improvements Board for permission to use the Hoosier Dome for his new club's home games, according to a story by News sports editor Wayne Fuson.
The CIB was scheduled to meet Wednesday to consider Bartlett's request, the story said.
The IFL is to be a spring league. Other IFL cities, according to Bartlett, are Miami, New York, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha, Neb., and Columbus, Ohio.
The team would be the first professional football organization in Indianapolis. City leaders have been wooing the National Football League, and had the Hoosier Dome built as a stadium to increase the city's chances.
There was a futile attempt this summer to move the financially troubled Boston Breakers of the USFL to Indianapolis.
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