1923_NFL_season

1923 NFL season

1923 NFL season

Sports season


The 1923 NFL season was the fourth regular season of the National Football League. For the first time, all of the clubs that were considered to be part of the NFL fielded teams. The new teams that entered the league were the Duluth Kelleys, the St. Louis All Stars (which only lasted one season), and a new Cleveland Indians team, while the Evansville Crimson Giants dropped out of the league and folded. The Canton Bulldogs repeated as NFL Champions after ending the season with an 11–0–1 record.

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Pros
Pros
All-Americans
All-Americans
Bulldogs
Bulldogs
Bears
Bears
Cardinals
Cardinals
Indians
Indians
Tigers
Tigers
Triangles
Triangles
Kelleys
Kelleys
Packers
Packers
Brecks
Brecks
Badgers
Badgers
Marines
Marines
Legion
Legion
Jeffersons
Jeffersons
Independents
Independents
All-Stars
All-Stars
Maroons
Maroons
Traveling teams Pros   Indians
Traveling teams
Pros
Indians
NFL teams

Postseason play

Six days after the December 9 end of the NFL season, league champion Canton accepted a challenge to play against the Frankford Yellow Jackets of Philadelphia, who were not an NFL team but who had billed themselves as "champions of the East" with a 9-1-2 record against teams in the "Anthracite League" and against four other NFL teams.[1] Canton won the game in Philadelphia in the final two minutes of play on a field goal from future Hall of Famer Pete Henry.[2]

Teams

Twenty teams competed in the NFL during the 1923 season.

First season in NFL * Team folded this season ^ Last season before hiatus, rejoined league later §
First season in NFL, and then folded after this season *^

Standings

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


References

  1. "Canton Bulldogs Play Frankfort [sic] in Tilt for Laurels; Famous Ohio 'Pro' Gridders Tied but One Contest and Won Eleven", St. Louis Star, December 15, 1923, p. 11
  2. "Canton Bulldogs Take Professional Grid Title", Baltimore Sun, December 16, 1923, p. 2-1
  • NFL Record and Fact Book (ISBN 1-932994-36-X)
  • NFL History 1921–1930 (Last accessed December 4, 2005)
  • Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0-06-270174-6)

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