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The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
Early championships between 1920 and 1932 were awarded to the team with the best won-lost record, initially rather haphazardly, as some teams played more or fewer games than others, or scheduled games against non-league, amateur or collegiate teams; this led to the 1920 title being determined during a league meeting after the season, [3] the 1921 title being decided on a controversial ...
Cities that hosted NFL teams in the 1920s and 1930s. Cities that still have NFL teams from that era are in black, while other cities are in red. Only teams that played more than ten games in the NFL are included. In league meetings prior to the 1933 season, three new teams, the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Eagles, were admitted to the NFL.
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road; Cincinnati Reds: 96: 44 .686 — 51–19 45–25 New York Giants: 87: 53 .621 9 46–23 41–30 Chicago Cubs: 75: 65 .536 21 40–31 35–34 Pittsburgh Pirates: 71: 68 .511 24½ 39–31 32–37 Brooklyn Robins: 69: 71 .493 27 36–34 33–37 Boston Braves ...
As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
Dunn Field, the home stadium of the 1920 Cleveland Tigers. The Cleveland Tigers finished 5–2–2 in their 1919 season in the Ohio League. [1] After the 1919 season, representatives of four Ohio League teams—the Canton Bulldogs, the Tigers, the Dayton Triangles, and the Akron Pros—called a meeting on August 20, 1920, to discuss the formation of a new league.
The Maroons had been controversially suspended by the league at the end of the 1925 NFL season for an unauthorized game against a non-NFL team, allowing the Cardinals to throw together two fairly easy matches (one against a team consisting partly of high school players, also against league rules) to pass Pottsville in the standings. The league ...
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road; Cincinnati Reds: 96: 44 .686 — 51–19 45–25 New York Giants: 87: 53 .621 9 46–23 41–30 Chicago Cubs: 75: 65 .536 21 40–31 35–34 Pittsburgh Pirates: 71: 68 .511 24½ 39–31 32–37 Brooklyn Robins: 69: 71 .493 27 36–34 33–37 Boston Braves ...