The Frankford Yellow Jackets is an American professional football team, part of the National Football League from 1924 to 1931, although originally from 1899 with the Frankford Athletics Association . The Yellow Jacket won the NFL championship in 1926. The team played its home game from 1923 at the Frankford Stadium (also called Yellow Jacket Field) at Frankford, part of the northeastern part of Philadelphia, noting for an underground transit line that ended there.
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Origin
Frankford Athletics Association
The Frankford Athletics Association was held in May 1899 in the Suburban Club living room. The cost of purchasing the inside of the association is $ 10. However, there are also membership contributions, ranging from $ 1 to $ 2.50, available to the general public. The association is a community-based non-profit organization and a local business. In accordance with its charter, which states that "all profits will be donated to charity", all the team's overpayments are donated to a local charity. Beneficiaries of this generosity include Frankford Hospital, Frankford Day Nursery, local Scouting, and the local American Legion Pos 211. Association officials never received a salary or compensation for their work on the team's behalf.
This association clubhouse was originally located on the site of Frankford High School today. The field on this site, known as Wistar Field, became the first official home of the Yellow Jacket. A few years later, when the current high school construction was proposed, the team moved to Brown's Field. The association initially fielded the baseball team; However, soccer and soccer clubs are also formed. The Association football team played several matches in 1899, including a winning contest against the Pioneer Athletic Association, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia Athletic Club, and a team from Atlantic City.
The original Frankford Athletic Association appeared to be disbanded before the 1909 football season. Some of the original players from the 1899 football team kept the team together, and they became known as the Loyola Athletic Club . In keeping with the Yellow Jackets tradition, they carried the name "Frankford" again in 1912, to become the Frankford Athletics Association.
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Yellow Jacket and NFL
In the early 1920s, the Yellowford Athletics Association's Yellow Jacket gained a reputation as one of the best independent football teams in the country. In 1922, Frankford absorbed the Philadelphia City Champion team, Union Quakers of Philadelphia. That year Frankford won an unofficial Philadelphia championship. During the 1922 and 1923 seasons, the Yellow Jackets set a 6-2-1 record against teams from the National Football League. This led to the Association awarded the NFL franchise in 1924.
season 1924
The Yellow Jacket was assembled in September 1924 under coach Punk Berryman to start preparing for the upcoming season. This team includes players Harry Dayhoff, Russ Stein, Joe Spagna, Whitey Thomas, Al Bedner, and Bob Jamison. Teams often play 15 to 20 games in a season. Often, they will schedule two games on the same weekend, usually one at home on Saturday and, due to the blue law of Pennsylvania, away game on Sunday. In their first game as a NFL member, the Yellow Jacket beat the Rochester Jeffersons 21-0. Frankford finished the season with a 17-3-1 overall record, with an 11-2-1 record in the league. They finished third in the league standings just behind the Cleveland Bulldogs and the Chicago Bears; under the modern tabulation procedure of the standings, Frankford will finish in the first place.
1925 season
In 1925, the Frankford Athletics Association registered the services of Guy Chamberlin, who served as coach-player for the NFL championship teams such as 1922 and 1923 Canton Bulldogs and 1924 Cleveland Bulldogs. After a 9-0-1 start, Frankford lost several key players, including Chamberlin, to injury. After the 49-0 defeat of Pottsville Maroons, Frankford captain, Bull Behman, was suspended indefinitely from the team for playing indifferently. He has been accused of not giving his best over the last few weeks due to several disputes with other players. The move helped boost the team, which recorded a 13-7 record in the league.
1925 NFL Championship controversy
Yellow Jacket has a part in the 1925 NFL Championship controversy. A dispute arose over a game played by Pottsville Maroons near the Notre Dame All-Stars in Philadelphia; Yellow Jackets insist that their closest rivals have violated their territorial rights by playing matches against non-league opponents in Philadelphia. The league agrees and suspends Maroon, allowing the Chicago Cardinals to win the 1925 title. However, the NFL restores Maroon the following year after fears that the team will join Red Grange, the American Football League, which poses a threat to the league.
1926 Championship Season
The Yellow Jackets started the 1926 season with an exhibition match against Atlantic City Roses, which Frankford won 45-0. Their NFL campaign started just six days later, with a disappointing 6-6 tie at home against Akron Pro. On the first weekend in October, the club posted two solid victories over Hartford Blues. They then play a two-game series against Buffalo Rangers. During Saturday's match, Yellow Jacket beat Rangers 30-0 at Frankford. The Jacket then heads to Buffalo for Sunday's game; However, Rangers was canceled for "wetlands". The Yellow Jacket is set for another two-game set, this time against the New York Giants, earning a pair of 6-0 Frankford wins. The next Canton Bulldogs on schedule; Frankford won the first game 10-0, while the second game was canceled due to rain.
During the last weekend of October, Yellow Jacket has a 6-0-1 lead league record. However, they have two sets to come with the toughest opponent, Providence Steam Roller. Yellow Jacket successfully split the series. The November team's schedule covers only the weekend of one game, and the Thanksgiving Day match. It is playable for the benefit of the Yellow Jacket. The team booked victories over the Chicago Cardinals, Duluth Eskimo and Dayton Triangles. This series of victories left Frankford in excellent form in the table while the team headed for Thanksgiving Day with the Green Bay Packers. For the next five seasons, the Frankford-Green Bay Thanksgiving Day game will be an annual tradition. Frankford went on to win the game 20-14, mainly due to a touchdown pass from Hust Stockton to Two-Bits Homan. Yellow Jacket then recorded a 7-6 victory over the Detroit Panthers two days later.
After a win over the Chicago Bears, the Yellow Jackets played a two-game series against Providence Steamroller. Frankford won the first game 24-0, but the second was canceled due to heavy snow. Frankford then have to play their last game of the season against Pottsville Maroons, who are still upset after their NFL championship title has been stripped of them after a complaint from Frankford. The match resulted in a goalless tie. However, the last record of 14-1-2 left the Yellow Jackets alone at the top of the NFL standings. Since the Championship match will not be in the NFL until 1933, the team with the best regular season record is named NFL Champion. This gives Yellow Jacket an undeniable claim to the crown of the league. Jacket's 14 victories during the 1926 championship season set an NFL record for a regular-season win that stood until 1984, when broken by 15-1-0 San Francisco 49ers.
However, one day after the title, Theodore "Thee" Holden and Guy Chamberlin resigned as president and coach of the Frankford Athletics Association.
1927-1929 seasons
James Adams took over as president of the Frankford Athletics Association in 1927. He hired Charley Moran as the team's new coach. However, Moran's son, Tom, briefly served as the team's interim coach that year after Charley took time off to lead in the 1927 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Jackets suffer as a result of this change and hold a 2-5-1 record after eight league games. This led Ed Weir to coach the team player. Weir has fellow players Russ Daugherty, Charlie Rogers, and Swedish Youngstrom acting as assistant coaches. Under Weir's leadership, the team finished with a 6-9-3 record in 1927. The Jackets rebounded in 1928 with an 11-3-2 league record, behind only Providence Steam Roller. In 1929, Bull Behman became the Yellow Jacket coach. The team finished with a 9-4-5 record for third place in the league standings.
Decline
season 1930
The Yellow Jacket began to decline mainly due to financial difficulties caused by the Great Depression in 1930. Shep Royle, president of the Franklin Athletics Association, arranged for coach Bull Behman and Wally Diehl to attend a training clinic in Chicago run by Glenn "Pop" Warner and Dick Hanley , in the hope that it will improve their training techniques and develop ways to better utilize their players. However, at the same time, the management of the Association decided to retain only a few veteran players, replacing most of the squad with the rookies directly from the college. It produced a series of ten consecutive defeats, the worst losing streak in Yellow Jackets history. To end the streak, Frankford bought eleven players from the Minneapolis Red Jackets, and George Gibson took over the coaching job of the team from Behman. The Legion Post also tried to rally to Yellow Jacket, promising his support. However, the effects of economic depression and poor performance on the field are combined to reduce the team's fan base. The season finally ended with an overall record of 6-13-1 and a 4-13-1 record in the league.
Last season
Before the start of the 1931 season, the Frankford Stadium was heavily damaged by fire, forcing the club to find another location for its home game. However, most of the facilities that are suitable for professional football are already booked. The Yellow Jackets must address this scheduling problem by playing in three different locations around Philadelphia: Philadelphia Municipal Stadium, and Baker Bowl. Philadelphia Municipal Stadium and Shibe Park are located outside the Frankford area, making presence difficult for local fans. The team hopes to gain broader support from Philadelphia extensively.
Herb Joesting took over as head coach in 1931. However, the team was in dire conditions. Some members of the press began to refer to the team as the Yellow Jacket of Philadelphia, in an effort to increase fan support, which failed to materialize. In October, NFL President Joe Carr, having witnessed a poor presence at the Frankford home lost to Portsmouth Spartans, approved a plan for Yellow Jacket to finish the season as a travel team. Carr hopes this move will allow the team to curb spending and rebound financially.
On October 26, 1931, Yellow Jacket defeated the Chicago Bears, 13-12, at Wrigley Field. The game marks the last time the Philadelphia-based NFL team will win an away game over the Bears until October 17, 1999, when the Eagles defeated the Bears 20-16 at Soldier Field. The 1928 Yellow Jackets win over the Packers marked the last time in a 51-year-old NFL Philadelphia team winning a road win over the Packers; The 1979 Eagles' Victory in Green Bay finally ended that streak.
Legacy
The Frankford Athletic Association not only fielded the Yellow Jackets football team, but also the Yellow Jackets' Band and the Frankford Legion Post 211 Drum & amp; Bugle Corps. The Association also sponsors bus and train travel for fans to travel to the game in places like Pottsville and New York City, where even the home team's sports writers pay attention to their enthusiasm. The club occasionally sponsors part-time exhibitions by Frankford Midgets, as well as women's soccer teams.
During their time in the NFL, Ignacio Molinet Frankford became the first Latin league player.
Today the Frankford-based Fire Engine, Philadelphia, has adopted the Yellow Jackets moniker on their fire truck.
Philadelphia Eagles
The victory over the Bears will be the last game played by the Yellow Jackets. The Yellow Jackets stop the operation the next day. Unable to find a buyer, the Frankford Athletics Association returns the franchise to the league.
The NFL spent more than a year looking for a new team to operate in Philadelphia. On July 9, 1933, the NFL granted an expansion franchise to Bert Bell and Lud Wray and gave them the assets of the failed Yellow Jacket organization. Bell and Wray named their team with the Philadelphia Eagles, after Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal symbol. This led to the assumption that the Yellow Jacket changed their name to Eagles and returned to the league after sitting in the 1932 season. However, that was not the case. Bell and Wray did not buy the Yellow Jackets team, but the NFL rights to the Philadelphia area previously owned by the Frankford Athletics Association. Due to the dormancy period, the Eagles did not claim Yellow Jackets history as their own, and the NFL considers the Eagles as the expansion team of 1933 for the purpose of record keeping. In addition, Bell and Wray formed a team that was almost entirely new; only one player from the 1931 Yellow Jackets that ended with the 1933 Eagle.
However, during the first few years of Eagles' existence, they wore the same blue and yellow uniforms as the Yellow Jacket; this is also the color of the Philadelphia flag. The replica was later imposed as a setback in 1934 in a game against the Detroit Lions on September 23, 2007 as part of the 75th anniversary of the team.
Hall of Famers
- Guy Chamberlin
- William "Link" Lyman
Other notable players
- Nate Barragar
- Bull Behman
- Jug Earp
- Dua-Bits Homan
- Herb Joesting
- Mort Kaer
- Bill Kelly
- Joseph Lightner
- Hap Moran
- Ray Richards
- Herb Stein
- Hust Stockton
- George Sullivan
- Charley "Pie" Way
- Ed Weir
Season-by-season record
(Record only NFL game)
References
External links
- Frankford Yellow Jacket - Pro Football Reference
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