The Cleveland Bulldogs was a team that played in Cleveland, Ohio in the National Football League. Cleveland had a team in the NFL called the Indians in 1923. The team's owner bought the defending NFL champions Canton Bulldogs. He "mothballed" the Canton team and took its players and name to Cleveland in 1924 and won the NFL championship. In 1925 there was a new Canton Bulldogs team to compete with the Cleveland Bulldogs.