1926 National Football League season
Regular season
DurationSeptember 19 – December 19, 1926
ChampionsFrankford Yellow Jackets
1926 NFL season is located in USA Midwest and Northeast
Indians
Indians
Lions
Lions
Rangers
Rangers
Bulldogs
Bulldogs
Bears
Bears
Cardinals
Cardinals
Tigers
Tigers
Triangles
Triangles
Panthers
Panthers
Eskimos
Eskimos
Yellow Jackets
Yellow Jackets
Packers
Packers
Blues
Blues
Cowboys
Cowboys
Badgers
Badgers
Giants
Giants
Maroons
Maroons
Steam Roller
Steam Roller
Tornadoes
Tornadoes
Traveling teams Pros Buccaneers Colonels
Traveling teams
Pros
Buccaneers
Colonels
NFL teams

The 1926 NFL season was the seventh regular season of the National Football League. The league grew to 22 teams, a figure that would not be equaled in professional football until 1961, adding the Brooklyn Lions, the Hartford Blues, the Los Angeles Buccaneers, and the Louisville Colonels, with the Racine Tornadoes re-entering. The Cleveland Bulldogs sat out the season, the Rock Island Independents defected to the upstart American Football League, and the Rochester Jeffersons suspended operations for the final time (eventually folding in early 1928). The Akron Pros re-branded as the Akron Indians, the Duluth Kelleys as the Duluth Eskimos and the Buffalo Bison as the Buffalo Rangers (the team also used the names "Texas Rangers" and "Buffalo Cowboys"). .

The Buccaneers, Eskimos, Colonels and Buffalo Rangers were "showcase teams," the first efforts for the league to reach beyond the northeast and midwest. The Buccaneers, a response to the AFL's Los Angeles Wildcats, represented the state of California; the Eskimos the far northern plains, while the Colonels represented the Southern United States and the Rangers represented the state of Texas and other areas of the Southwestern United States. The four teams (except the Rangers) all played primarily as traveling teams. Three of the four teams only lasted one season; the Buccaneers and Colonels both folded while the Rangers reverted to their previous status as the Bison, and only the Eskimos returned for 1927.

In mid-November, Brooklyn merged with the AFL's Brooklyn Horsemen and stayed in the NFL, playing one more game as the Lions before changing its name to the Brooklyn Horsemen for the last three games (all shutout losses).

The Frankford Yellow Jackets were named the NFL champions after finishing the season with the best record. Their 14 victories were the most in an NFL season to that point, a record that would not be bested until the 1968 Baltimore Colts won 15.

After the season, the Philadelphia Inquirer lobbied for a World Series-style game between the Yellow Jackets and the AFL's champions Philadelphia Quakers, with the Quakers' owner challenging the Yellow Jackets, but ultimately the NFL denied permission to this game to be held.[1]

Teams

The league grew to 22 teams.

First season in NFL * Rejoined the NFL † Last active season ^
Team Head coach(es) Stadium
Akron Indians ^Al Nesser (2 games) and Frank Nied (6 games)Akron League Park
Brooklyn Lions *^Punk BerrymanEbbets Field
Buffalo RangersJim KendrickBison Stadium
Canton Bulldogs ^Pete Henry and Harry Robb (10 games)League Field
Chicago BearsGeorge HalasCubs Park
Chicago CardinalsNorman BarryNormal Park
Columbus Tigers ^Jack HeldtWest Side Athletic Club
Dayton TrianglesCarl StorckTriangle Park
Detroit Panthers ^Jimmy ConzelmanNavin Field
Duluth EskimosDewey ScanlonDuluth Athletic Park
Frankford Yellow JacketsGuy ChamberlinFrankford Stadium
Green Bay PackersCurly LambeauCity Stadium
Hammond Pros ^Doc YoungTraveling team
Hartford Blues *^Jack KeoghEast Hartford Velodrome
Kansas City Cowboys ^Roy AndrewsMuehlebach Field
Los Angeles Buccaneers *^Tut Imlay and Brick MullerTraveling team
Louisville Colonels *^Lenny SachsTraveling team
Milwaukee Badgers ^Johnny BryanMilwaukee Athletic Park
New York GiantsDoc AlexanderPolo Grounds
Pottsville MaroonsDick RauchMinersville Park
Providence Steam RollerJim LairdCycledrome
Racine Tornadoes †^Shorty Barr (3 games) and Wally McIlwain (2 games)Horlick Field

Standings

NFL standings
W L T PCT PF PA STK
Frankford Yellow Jackets 14 1 2 .933 236 49 W6
Chicago Bears 12 1 3 .923 216 63 L1
Pottsville Maroons 10 2 2 .833 155 29 T1
Kansas City Cowboys 8 3 0 .727 76 53 W7
Green Bay Packers 7 3 3 .700 151 61 T1
New York Giants 8 4 1 .667 151 61 W3
Los Angeles Buccaneers 6 3 1 .667 67 57 L1
Duluth Eskimos 6 5 3 .545 113 81 L1
Buffalo Rangers 4 4 2 .500 53 62 T1
Chicago Cardinals 5 6 1 .455 74 98 L1
Providence Steam Roller 5 7 1 .417 89 103 L1
Detroit Panthers 4 6 2 .400 107 60 L3
Hartford Blues 3 7 0 .300 57 99 L1
Brooklyn Lions 3 8 0 .273 60 150 L3
Milwaukee Badgers 2 7 0 .222 41 66 L5
Dayton Triangles 1 4 1 .200 15 82 L2
Akron Indians 1 4 3 .200 23 89 T1
Racine Tornadoes 1 4 0 .200 8 92 L4
Columbus Tigers 1 6 0 .143 26 93 L5
Canton Bulldogs 1 9 3 .100 46 161 L1
Hammond Pros 0 4 0 .000 3 56 L4
Louisville Colonels 0 4 0 .000 0 108 L4

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

References

  1. "8 Defunct NFL Teams With Unusual Histories". The History Channel.
  • NFL Record and Fact Book (ISBN 1-932994-36-X)
  • NFL History 1921–1930 (Last accessed December 4, 2005)
  • David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen, and Rick Korch, The Football Encyclopedia: The Complete, Year-by-Year History of Professional Football From 1892 to the Present (St. Martin's Press 1994) ISBN 0-312-11435-4
  • Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0-06-270174-6)

See also

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