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1926 Frankford Yellow Jackets Season
The 1926 Frankford Yellow Jackets season was their third in the National Football League. The team improved on their previous output of 10–4, winning fourteen games. By virtue of their league-best record of 14–1–2, they were crowned the 1926 NFL Champions. The 1926 Yellow Jackets are the last NFL franchise to win a championship, and later go defunct.The Yellow Jackets' final season was 1931. Incidentally, the champions of the rival American Football League that year were also based in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Quakers. There had been some brief discussion of fulfilling the crosstown rivalry by staging an interleague championship between the Quakers and Yellow Jackets, but the Yellow Jackets declined. (The Quakers instead played the seventh-place New York Giants, losing 31–0.) Schedule Standings References Frankford Yellow Jackets seasons Frankford Yellow Jackets The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a professional American football team, part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Chamberlin
Berlin Guy "Champ" Chamberlin (January 16, 1894 – April 4, 1967), sometimes misspelled Guy Chamberlain, was an American football player and coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. He was also named in 1969 to the National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team, NFL 1920s All-Decade Team. A native of Blue Springs, Nebraska, Chamberlin played college football as a Halfback (gridiron football), halfback at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1911 and 1912. He transferred to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska in 1913 and played at the halfback and End (gridiron football), end positions for the undefeated 1914 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1914 and 1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football teams that won consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1915, and he was selected in 1936 as the greatest player in Nebraska football history. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
