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  Frankford Yellow Jackets - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a team in the National Football League.
Frankford is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located in the northeastern part of the city, noted chiefly for the elevated subway line that originates there.
The Yellow Jackets played in the NFL from 1924 until 1931, failing to complete their schedule in the latter year, mainly due to financial hardships brought on by the Great Depression.
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Some historians consider the Yellow Jackets the forerunners to the Philadelphia Eagles.
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 Frankford Yellow Jackets -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a team in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Football League) National Football League.
Frankford is a section of (Click link for more info and facts about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located in the northeastern part of the city, noted chiefly for the elevated (Electric underground railway) subway line that originates there.
The Yellow Jackets played in the NFL from 1924 until 1931, failing to complete their schedule in the last year, mainly due to financial hardships brought on by the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression.
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 HickokSports.com - History - Frankford Yellow Jackets
Frankford was once a separate town, but it became part of Philadelphia in 1845.
The Yellow Jackets lost the city's championship game in 1920 and 1921, first to the Union Athletic Association and then to the Philadelphia Quakers, which was basically the Union team under a different name.
The homeless Yellow Jackets staggered to a 1-6-1 record and disbanded in early November.
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She was living in Philadelphia while on assignment at Frankford Hospital, a small critical-care facility in the Northeast section of the city.
Frankford's wrestling team was fairly inexperienced this season, composed mostly of sophomores and juniors, yet the Pioneers still rolled to their seventh...
The Huskies from Frankford were up next and although the Bulldogs didn’t have one of their better games they did earn the victory.
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One of the lesser known players in the NFL history, he was one of the most popular in Frankford and the country in his time.
Chamberlin came to the Yellow Jackets in 1925 after coaching the Canton Bulldogs to the 1922 and 1923 NFL title.
In 1925 the Yellow Jackets lured him to Frankford and in 1926 the big year came and Frankford was the word champion.
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But consistent with pro football's provincial, small-town orientation, the Yellow Jackets chose to identify with Frankford, a tight-knit neighborhood, rather than with the much larger city of which it was a part.
Ultimately, though, the Yellow Jackets were forced out of Frankford, first when fire damaged their stadium, then when the city of Philadelphia revealed plans to extend a major street right through the stadium grounds (knowing Philadelphia, who can say what sort of politics were involved?).
On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, they played the Frankford Yellow Jackets before 35,000 people, and the next day, their uniforms still wet and muddy, they faced the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds.
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 Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
Frankford gave him a contract, and in his first game as a pro they got their money’s worth.
The next day the Yellow Jackets traveled with a thousand fans and their Drum and Bugle Corps in chartered railroad cars up to the Polo Grounds for the Giants first home game of the season.
The Yellow Jackets were down 6 - 0 with 90 seconds left, but then fullback Hust Stockston threw a pass to Ralph “Two-Bits” Homan for a touchdown.
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 Encyclopedia: Frankford Yellow Jackets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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The Yellow Jackets played in the NFL from 1924 until 1931, failing to complete their schedule in the last year, mainly due to financial hardships brought on by the Great Depression.
Bert Bell (1895-1959) was co-founder (with Lud Wray) of the Frankford Yellowjackets in 1924 (whose name was changed to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1933), and commissioner of the National Football League from 1946 until his death.
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Frankford Yellow Jackets The Frankford Yellow Jackets were a team in the National Football League.
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In fact, he had a special agreement with Frankford because his home and practice were in Pittsburgh but the Yellow Jackets were located near Philadelphia, on the other side of the state.
During that 1925 season, he played guard and tackle for the Frankford Yellow Jackets who finished 13-7-0, sixth in the NFL.
He then played guard and tackle in the NFL with the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1924-25, and with the Akron Indians in 1926.
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 Frankford Yellow Jackets - Information
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They won the NFL title in 1926, and were co-founded — and co-owned throughout their existence — by Bert Bell and Lud Wray.
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The Jackets are one of the original National Football League teams to join in the early 1920's.
Originating out of the Frankford section of Philadelphia at the end of the 19th century, the team joined the NFL in 1924 and went on to win the World Championship in 1926.
The legend of The Yellow Jackets is an often discussed one that not many people are aware of.
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The Herd had finished the previous season with a 45 to 7 schooling at the hands of the Yellow Jackets.
On November 1, the Koppisch-less Bisons took on the Frankford Yellow Jackets at Bisons Stadium, and again proved they were no match for the Hornets, especially now that they were playing without their captain and star player.
But the score was much closer this time, with Frankford pulling it out in the fourth quarter, winning 12 to 3.
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 Weekend Edition Cover Story - The Merchandiser
But the Frankford Yellow Jackets, the local NFL team, also played that day and protested that their territorial rights were violated.
NFL president Joe Carr agreed, and so suspended the Maroons from the league and took away their championship, giving it to the Cardinals, whom they beat on the field earlier in the month.
Although close by, Pottsville was not garnering much attention on the local sports page–but one Henry Homan, former Lebanon Valley College standout and quarterback, safety, punt returner for their rivals, the Frankford Yellow Jackets, was.
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 North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Just one week later, however, the championship was revoked by the league after Pottsville infringed on the Frankford Yellow Jackets' territory to play an exhibition game against a team of Notre Dame all-stars in Philadelphia.
The average 1925 attendance, for the five games at which the crowd total was estimated, was 4,800 per game, including a sellout against the rival Frankford Yellow Jackets, whose protest eventually would force the league to strip the Maroons of their title.
Ironically, the All-Stars originally had signed to play Frankford, but backed off when the Yellow Jackets were crushed by the Maroons, 49-0.
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 HickokSports.com - Biography - Herb Joesting
Joesting was player-coach of the NFL's Minneapolis Red Jackets 1929.
He gave up coaching duties and began the 1930 season as the Minneapolis fullback but was traded to the Frankford Yellow Jackets.
He played for Frankford and the Chicago Bears in 1931 and finished his career with the Bears in 1932, when they won the NFL championship.
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 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
In his six coaching seasons, five of which were spent as a player-coach, Chamberlin also won four NFL championships for the Canton Bulldogs in 1922 and 1923, the Cleveland Bulldogs in 1924, and the Frankford Yellowjackets in 1926.
Although Chamberlin's high school in Blue Springs, Nebraska, was not big enough to field a football team, he became a two-time All-America at the University of Nebraska.
In 1925, Chamberlin joined the Frankford Yellowjackets and a year later won another NFL title with a 14-1-2 record.
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 Benny Lee Boynton: The Purple Streak
With some 6,000 enthusiasts as witnesses, the Frankford Yellow Jackets assailed the Buffalo Bisons with a 24 to 0 thrashing at Bisons Park on November 2.
It took just one week for the Bisons long to rebound from the drubbing they had received at the hands of the Frankford Yellow Jackets, as the local boys whitewashed the Kenosha Maroons, 27 to 0.
The Boynton-less Bisons were crushed in their two remaining games (22 to 0 by Akron on November 27 and 45 to 7 by Frankford on November 29).
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 Site News & Updates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Added 35-0 victory over Riverside AA to Frankford Yellow Jackets 1921 season schedule.
Added 14 to 0 victory over the Conshohocken A. to the Frankford Yellow Jackets' 1921 season schedule.
Made the following updates to the Frankford Yellow Jackets page: expanded the "NFL title comes to Frankford..." portion of the page to provide a more detailed account of the 1926 season, and added images of the Yellow Jackets vs. Dayton Triangles game (1926) and of the north stands at Yellow Jacket Field (1926).
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 Frankford Yellow Jackets - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Frankford Yellow Jackets - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
Some historians consider the Yellow Jackets the forerunners to the Philadelphia_Eagles.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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 Football, - Articles
About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1929 Minneapolis Red Jackets.
About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1929 Frankford Yellow Jackets.
About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets.
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 The Dayton Triangles: Dayton Triangles and Frankford Yellow Jackets 1926   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Dayton Triangles: Dayton Triangles and Frankford Yellow Jackets 1926
In the same period, Dayton showed to its best advantage getting away to several long end runs that gained yardage.
The two main Frankford pursuers are Guy Chamberlin (left) and Johnny Budd (right).
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 question [Archive] - Baseball Fever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He named the team "the New York Football Giants" so that they would not be confused with the baseball team.
The New York Football Giants (that is still their official name, by the way) lost their first ever game to the Frankford Yellow Jackets, but finished the season with a very respectable 8-4 record.
The NFL was seriously in flux back in those days; other franchises that signed on in '25 were the Providence Steam Rollers, the Pottsville Maroons (no, seriously), and the Detroit Panthers, none of which stuck around for long.
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About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1927 Green Bay Packers.
About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets.
About Football's library of football history includes the roster for the 1926 Frankford Yellow Jackets.
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