1931 NFL season

1931 NFL season
Regular season
DurationSeptember 13 – December 13, 1931
ChampionsGreen Bay Packers
1931 NFL season is located in USA Midwest and Northeast
Dodgers
Dodgers
Bears
Bears
Cardinals
Cardinals
Packers
Packers
Giants
Giants
Spartans
Spartans
Stapletons
Stapletons
Yellow Jackets
Yellow Jackets
Indians
Indians
Steam Roller
Steam Roller

The 1931 NFL season was the 12th regular season of the National Football League. The league decreased to 10 teams due to financial hardships caused by the Great Depression: while the Cleveland Indians joined as an expansion team and the league lost the Minneapolis Red Jackets and the Newark Tornadoes, the Frankford Yellow Jackets folded midway through the season.

Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers were named the NFL champions for the third consecutive time after major controversy when they decided to cancel a season-ending game against Portsmouth, which was alleged to have been in order to preserve their first-place finish: major rule changes were made in the scheduling of games to prevent any repeat of this incident.[1]

  1. ^ "The Game Not Played, the Championship Not Won: Packers vs. Spartans, 1931" (PDF).