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1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

Minneapolis Red Jackets The Minneapolis Marines were an early professional football team that existed from 1905 until 1924. The team was later resurrected from 1929 to 1930 under the Minneapolis Red Jackets name. The Marines were owned locally by Minneapolitans John Dun ...

season was their fifth in the

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and first as the Red Jackets. The team improved on their previous output of 0–6, winning one game.1929 Minneapolis Red Jackets
/ref> They finished 11th in the league. Prior to this season, the Red Jackets were the

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Schedule

Standings

Roster

* Joseph Chrape * Hal Erickson *

John Fahay John Fahay (June 16, 1902 – January 8, 1980) was a player in the National Football League. He was a member of the Milwaukee Badgers during the 1925 NFL season before playing the following season with the Racine Tornadoes during the 1926 NFL sea ...

Herb Franta Herbert Joseph Franta (March 10, 1905 – August 3, 1950) was an American football player, a tackle and guard in the National Football League. Biography Franta was born on March 10, 1905, in Minnesota. His nickname was "Chief". Career Frant ...

* Frank Gause *

Ken Haycraft Kenneth C. Haycraft (February 16, 1907 – June 29, 1995) was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). Biography Haycraft was born on February 16, 1907, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Career Haycraft played with the Minneapolis ...

* Herb Joesting *

Fritz Loven Fred Oscar "Fritz" Loven (June 11, 1894 – November 1, 1975) was an American football player. He played professional football for the Minneapolis Red Jackets in 1929 and thereafter lived for more than 40 years a life of "socialized exclusion" in ...

Bob Lundell Wilbur Harvey Lundell (June 21, 1907 – July 7, 1993), sometimes known as Bob Lundell or "Brute" Lundell, was an American football, baseball, and basketball player. Lundell was born in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1907. He attended Edison High School ...

* LaDue Lurth *

Al Maeder Albert Raymond Maeder (January 25, 1906 – August 25, 1984) was an American football player. Maeder was born in Minneapolis in 1906. He attended East High School in that city. He played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers from 192 ...

Mally Nydahl Malvyn John "Mally" Nydahl, sometimes spelled Nydall (November 24, 1906 – May 27, 1979), was an American football, baseball, and basketball player and orthopedic surgeon. He played college football for Minnesota and in the National Football Lea ...

Ben Oas Ben Oas (April 27, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was an American football player. Oas was born in 1901 in Minnesota. He played college football as a center and fullback for St Mary's (MN) from 1925 to 1928. He also played center for the St. Mary' ...

* Arnie Sandberg *

Rube Ursella Reuben J. Ursella (January 11, 1890 – February 1980) was a professional football player-coach who played during the early years of the National Football League. During his NFL career Rube played for the Minneapolis Marines, Akron Indians, ...

Chet Widerquist Chester C. Widerquist (September 23, 1895 - July 14, 1976) was a professional American football player for the Milwaukee Badgers, Rock Island Independents, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Wolverines and Minneapolis Red Jackets. He attended Washi ...

Henry Willegale Henry Minard Willegale (June 9, 1901 – June 26, 1964) was a player in the National Football League for the Minneapolis Red Jackets in 1929. He played at the collegiate level at Carleton College. Biography Willegale was born on June 9, 190 ...

* Lee Wilson * Sam Young

References

Minneapolis Red Jackets seasons

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