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.[1] By virtue of their league-best record of 14–1–2, they were crowned the 1926 NFL Champions.[2] The 1926 Yellow Jackets are the last NFL franchise to win a championship, and later go defunct.[3]
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
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| – | September 19, 1926 | at Atlantic City Roses | W 45–0 |
| 1 | September 25, 1926 | Akron Indians | T 6–6 |
| 2 | October 2, 1926 | Hartford Blues | W 13–0 |
| 3 | October 3, 1926 | at Hartford Blues | W 10–0 |
| 4 | October 9, 1926 | Buffalo Rangers | W 30–0 |
| 5 | October 16, 1926 | New York Giants | W 6–0 |
| 6 | October 17, 1926 | at New York Giants | W 6–0 |
| 7 | October 23, 1926 | Canton Bulldogs | W 17–0 |
| 8 | October 30, 1926 | Providence Steam Roller | L 7–6 |
| 9 | October 31, 1926 | at Providence Steam Roller | W 6–3 |
| 10 | November 6, 1926 | Chicago Cardinals | W 33–7 |
| 11 | November 13, 1926 | Duluth Eskimos | W 10–0 |
| 12 | November 20, 1926 | Dayton Triangles | W 35–0 |
| – | November 21, 1926 | at Clifton Heights Orange & Black | W 10–0 |
| 13 | November 25, 1926 | Green Bay Packers | W 20–14 |
| 14 | November 27, 1926 | Detroit Panthers | W 7–6 |
| 15 | December 4, 1926 | Chicago Bears Played at Shibe Park |
W 7–6 |
| 16 | December 11, 1926 | Providence Steam Roller | W 24–0 |
| 17 | December 18, 1926 | Pottsville Maroons | T 0–0 |
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
- ^ 1926 Frankford Yellow Jackets
- ^ Pro Football Archives 1926 Frankford Yellow Jackets
- ^ The Yellow Jackets' final season was 1931.