Birmingham joins the Dixie Professional Football League for their inaugural season. The DPFL is a semi-pro football league and is run by Virgil Pierson of the Alabama State Fair Authority.

All home games will be played at Rickwood Field.

Billy Hicks will be the Vulcans player/coach.

	1961 Dixie Professional Football League
	Birmingham Vulcans
	Gadsden Raiders
	Montgomery Confederates
	Selma Falcons

A few games into the season, Hicks steps down from his coaching duties and Jimmy Vines is named head coach.

Vulcans head coach Jimmy Vines announces there will be no DPFL post-season.

Instead, an All-Star team of players from the Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma franchises will meet the league's champion, the Gadsden Raiders, on November 18th in Gadsden.

	1962 Dixie Professional Football League
	Birmingham Vulcans
	Gadsden Raiders
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