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With the overwhelming national popularity that professional football enjoys today, you wouldn't suppose that a small business concern such as the Staley Starch Works of Decatur, IL., could have played much of a part in the proud history of the game.
Yet, had it not been for that company and it president, A. E. Staley, it is quite probable that professional football would not be as we know it today. For it was Staley who ushered George S. Halas onto the pro football scene and in turn it was Halas who introduced many of the things that are good into the professional football world.
At the time of his enshrinement, Halas was one of 54 persons in the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Yet, if the number honored greats were only 10, or even five, it is certain that George Halas would still be honored, for his contributions to the game as a player, as a coach, as a club owner and executive dwarf those of almost any other individual.
It all started back in 1920 when the Staley Starch Works assigned to its new recreational director the task or organizing a football team. Halas did the job so well that the Decatur Staleys of, 1920 won 13 games and lost just once.
That same year, on September 17, meeting in an automobile agency in Canton, Halas participated in an even more significant venture, the organization of the American Football Association. A year later, the league was recognized under the name of the National Football League and one of history's most successful sports associations was on its way.
Back with the Staleys, the financial picture was as dim as the playing situation was bright. Convinced that his company could no longer afford to sponsor such a venture as a professional football team, Staley gave Halas $5,000 and advised him to move the team to Chicago. The only stipulation that was made was that the name Staleys be retained for at least one year.
Like almost all other pioneer ventures, professional football was taking its financial knocks in the early 1920s. But it was a move by Halas late in 1925 that not only achieved for pro football a "major breakthrough" in fan appeal, but perhaps saved the game itself from extinction at the time.
The hottest football name in the nation that year was Harold (Red) Grange, the Galloping Ghost from the University of Illinois. Signing Grange just as soon as his Illinois eligibility was completed, Halas had his new star in a Bears uniform in time for the Thanksgiving Day game with the cross-town rivals, the Cardinals. Then followed a tortuous barnstorming tour around the country, but crowds that ranged from good to great saw the Bears and Red Grange and there never again was a doubt that pro football was on the American sports scene to stay.
Faced with the problem of finding a suitable spot to play in Chicago, Halas arranged to lease Wrigley Field from Bill Veeck, Sr., then owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. In as much as Halas himself was already a staunch Cubs fan, the name Bears was a natural for the football team that was to play at the Cubs' home park. So Bears it was, starting in 1922.
At age 73, Halas was still active as chairman of the board of the Bears, having just retired for the fourth time as head coach of the Chicago eleven. Earlier, Halas had retired in 1929, in 1942 (because of World War II), and in 1955. But each previous time, he came back to coach again.
Obviously, there have been the peaks and the valleys in almost half a century of pro football activity, but Halas calls the day in 1940 when the Bears, in perhaps the greatest single team performance of all time, annihilated the Washington Redskins, 73-0 in the NFL title game, his greatest thrill.
But the thrills that millions have experienced at least indirectly because of George Halas can never be counted. During that long tenure as Mr. Everything of one of pro football's most famous franchises, Halas can point out eight NFL titles and to numerous seasons when the Bears were in title contention right tot he final wire.
And Halas can be proud, too, that there are more "Alumni" of the Chicago Bears in the Professional Football Hall of Fame than any other team.
Doug Atkins...George Blanda...Dick Butkus...George Connor...Mike Ditka...Paddy Driscoll...Jim Finks...Danny Fortmann...Bill George...Harold "Red" Grange...Ed Healey...Bill Hewitt...Stan Jones...Sid Luckman...Link Lyman...George McAfee...George Musso...Bronko Nagurski...Walter Payton...Gale Sayers...Mike Singletary...Joe Stydahar...George Trafton...Clyde "Bulldog" Turner... all great players who will be remembered... all members of the Professional Football Hall of Fame and all former Chicago Bears!
By Bob Carroll For years it was said that George Halas and Dutch Sternaman, the Chicago Bears’ co-owners and co-coaches, always took opposite sides in every minor argument at league meetings but presented a united front whenever anything major was on the table. But, by 1929, their bickering had spread from league politics to how their own team was to be directed. The absence of a united front between its leaders split the team. The result was the worst year in the Bears’ short history -- 4-9-2, underscored by a humiliating 40-6 loss to the crosstown Cardinals. A change was necessary.
Neither Halas nor Sternaman was willing to let the other take charge, and so, in the best tradition of Solomon, they resolved their differences by agreeing that neither would coach the team. In effect, they fired themselves, vowing to attend to their front office knitting. A few years later, Sternaman would sell his interest to Halas and leave pro football for good. Halas would go on and on.
Halas and Sternaman chose Ralph Jones, the head man at Lake Forest (IL) Academy, as the Bears’ new coach. Jones had faith in the T-formation, the attack mode the Bears had used since they began as the Decatur Staleys. While other pro teams lined up in more modern formations like the single wing, double wing, or Notre Dame box, the Bears under Jones continued to use their basic T. But Jones added new refinements such as split ends and a man in motion in the backfield, opening up the Bears offense to more passes and end runs.
Encouraged, Coach Jones climbed out on a limb and promised a championship within three years. To bring that off, Jones knew he’d have to replace the Bears’ core of aging veterans with new young athletes. One of the first casualties of Jones’ housecleaning was veteran center George Trafton, who was considered washed up at 33. Trafton disagreed. He surprised everyone by showing up in camp and winning back his position.
To supplement veterans like Trafton, Red Grange, and Link Lyman, Jones brought in a large contingent of rookies. Number one on the list was Bronko Nagurski, a legendary figure out of the University of Minnesota where he’d earned All-America honors as both a fullback and tackle. He stood 6’2” and carried 216 pounds of muscle and bone. He ran with his head down like a battering ram. One time he tore through a goal line defense, smashed through the end zone, and collided with a brick wall. “That last guy hit me pretty hard,” he admitted.
Nagurski challenged the Cardinals’ Ernie Nevers for the title of the league’s top power runner. Teammate Red Grange, who had the good fortune to face Nagurski only in practice, commented, “When you hit him, it was like getting an electrical shock. If you hit him above the ankles, you were likely to get yourself killed.”
Nagurski’s power up the gut made Jones’ more open T-formation more effective because the first order for every Bears’ foe was to avoid getting creamed by Bronko. A few years later, when Giants coach Steve Owen, a certified defensive genius, was asked how he planned to stop Nagurski, he said: “With a shotgun, as he’s leaving the dressing room.”
Buoyed by Nagurski’s muscle and Jones’ strategic innovations, the Bears bounced back from their dismal 1929 season to finish 9-4-1. Five straight victories ended the campaign on a high note.
Late in 1930, just after the college season had ended, Halas signed Notre Dame’s popular fullback Jumpin’ Joe Savoldi. NFL president Joe Carr immediately slapped a $1,000 fine on the Bears for signing a player before his college class had graduated, a no-no ever since Halas had signed Grange immediately after his last game for Illinois in 1925. There was a difference, Halas insisted. Savoldi had been expelled by Notre Dame for being secretly married. The fine stuck. Savoldi played three games for the Bears, running well, and then retired to pursue a wrestling career. He had no chance of unseating Nagurski as the Chicago starter.
Meanwhile, Back at the Bay ….
The Depression deepened. As a symptom, two 1929 NFL teams folded before the 1930 season, but they had been in ill financial health for years. The nation’s economic crisis only hastened the inevitable. The Buffalo Bisons, a power in the early 1920’s when they were known as the All-Americans, declined rapidly through the latter half of the decade. With the failure of the 1929 team, Buffalo would have to wait until after World War II to field a major league team again. The Boston Braves – actually the transplanted Pottsville Maroons – barely completed a single NFL season despite apparently receiving financial help from the Providence Steam Roller. The Steam Roller owners had hoped a natural New England rivalry between Boston and Providence would excite fans.
Another charter member of the league, the Dayton Triangles, disappeared when New York’s William B. Dwyer along with onetime University of Illinois center John Depler purchased the franchise and set it down in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. Naturally, they gave their club the name Brooklyn Dodgers although in 1930 the baseball team was more laughed at than respected. Unfortunately, the tolerance Brooklyn’s baseball fans accorded their “Daffiness Boys” was seldom given to by football fans to the gridiron Dodgers. Of course, when three Dodgers receivers converged at the same point on a football field, it was only another busted play; when three Dodgers baserunners found themselves occupying the same third base, it was bizarre.
In another franchise shift, the Orange Tornadoes relocated in Newark. The result was a weaker team and a far less colorful name. The Portsmouth Spartans flew in the face of economic reality and obtained a league franchise. When the smoke had cleared, league membership was at eleven teams, one less than in 1929.
The Bears were better, but they had a way to go. The Green Bay Packers and New York Giants still stood head and shoulders above the rest of the league. The Packers had essentially the same veteran squad that had roared undefeated through 1929. Cal Hubbard, Mike Michalske, and Lavie Dilweg anchored the line. The talented and deep backfield featured Red Dunn, Johnny Blood, Verne Lewellen, Hurdis McCrary, and Bo Molenda. A new face in the backfield was local hero Arnie “Flash” Herber. After a standout high school career, Herber had spent only a short time in college before returning to Green Bay. He was a good all-around player, but his forte was his ability to fire long, long passes with accuracy. Coupled with Blood, the best receiver in the league, he added an extra dimension to the Packer attack.
Even Herber, who was eventually ensconced in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, could not throw with the accuracy of the Giants Benny Friedman. The former University of Michigan great, was a good runner, a fair placekicker, and, until a leg injury slowed him later, an excellent defensive back. He would have been a star had he never tossed a pass, but it was the magic he produced through the air that lifted him to superstar status along with Grange and Nevers. In 1930, he passed for over a thousand yards -- unofficially, of course -- for the fourth straight season. Friedman, who took the bromide “a coach on the field” seriously, shocked fans and teammates alike by occasionally calling for passes on first down. His willingness to let fly was risky, especially considering the bloated football and restrictive rules of the day, but he produced the league’s highest scoring team. The Giants averaged 18.1 points per game, the champion Packers 16.7. No other team could average 13.
Friedman’s favorite target of 1929, red-haired Ray Flaherty, retired to coach Gonzaga’s football team, but New York came up with a strong replacement in Red Badgro, another carrot-top. Badgro had been out of football for two seasons, concentrating on a baseball career as a St. Louis Browns outfielder. When curveballs proved he’d never become the next Babe Ruth, he returned to the grid game. In addition to being an excellent receiver, Badgro was a terrific defensive end, with a knack for making the big, turn-around play.
The Giants added three useful rookies to their roster: tackle Len Grant, guard Butch Gibson, and a versatile halfback in Dale Burnett. After two easy victories, the Giants travelled to Green Bay on October 5 and dropped a 14-7 decision. They rebounded to rip through eight straight wins.
On October 16, the Giants played the first Polo Grounds night football game, beating the Chicago Cardinals with Ernie Nevers 25-12. Governor Al Smith was among the 15,000 in attendance. On November 6, 1929, the Cardinals had played the NFL’s first night game in Providence. Less than a year later, night games had become common around the league in hope of offsetting some of the Sunday fans lost to the Depression.
With the aid of mid-week night games, the Newark Tornadoes, relocated from Orange, squeezed twelve games into a six-and-a-half week schedule. They might have set a record had they not withdrawn from the league at the end of October. As it was, they managed to employ 43 players (the NFL roster limit was 20 players per game) and produced only a single win to nestle comfortably in last place.
A new team, the Portsmouth Spartans also scheduled numerous night games but with better success than Newark. The Spartans, playing in a city with a citizenry of only 42,000, were out of step with the prevailing NFL trend toward locating franchises in large population centers. Despite a good record in 1929 as an independent, the Spartans might have seen their bid for an NFL franchise go unheeded except for Portsmouth’s location. The league was badly split geographically. Minneapolis, Green Bay, and the two Chicago teams were in the upper midwest; the Giants, Frankford, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Providence, and Newark were all on the east coast. The historic originators of the league in Ohio and Indiana were defunct. Portsmouth, situated on the Ohio River, made a convenient stopover payday on trips east or west.
Green Bay was about 5,000 souls smaller than Portsmouth, but the Packers had two things going for them that kept them alive in this, the first crushing year of the not-so-Great Depression. First, they were owned by the town’s citzens. That assured them of a fairly consistent crowd at undersized City Stadium. It also made it impossible for a panicky owner to relocate the team to some town where the grass might be greener. The Packers’ second advantage was that they picked just this time to field a championship team -- and a pretty good show. The popular combination of stellar play and famous players made the Pack a good draw on the road. League owners were willing to accept a break-even trip to Green Bay in exchange for a bulging house when the Packers came visiting.
A Two-Team Race
By November 10, the Packers stood 8-0 and the Giants 10-1, their only loss being to Green Bay. Surprisingly, on November 16, both teams were upset. In Chicago, Ernie Nevers led the Cardinals to a 13-6 victory over the Packers with his running and defense. Meanwhile, in New York, the Chicago Bears bushwhacked the Giants, handing them their only shutout all season, 12-0.
One week later, the Packers came to the Polo Grounds for a game that was expected to settle the championship. A crowd of 45,000 showed up, drawn not only by the season’s biggest game but also by the professional debut of Chris “Red” Cagle, West Point’s All-America runner of 1929. Cagle’s appearance in a Giants uniform was unspectacular but few in the crowd complained -- New York won 13-6. A long pass from Friedman to Badgro provided the Giants with one touchdown and an 84-yard run by veteran Hap Moran set up Friedman’s one-yard plunge for the winning touchdown. The Giants, at 11-2, moved into first place ahead of the 8-2 Packers.
Only four days later, in a Thanksgiving Day contest at Staten Island, the Giants tumbled back out of first place by losing to the Stapletons 7-6. A full house of 12,000 jammed into Thompson’s Stadium to cheer for the Stapes. The Stapletons had a strong running attack with player-coach Doug Wycoff and Ken Strong, but they struggled with one of the weakest passing games in years. But on this day, Wycoff completed two long passes to set up a short run by Strong for a touchdown that tied the score. Then Strong, one of the best kickers of his day, booted the extra point that eventually was the margin of victory.
The Packers celebrated Thanksgiving by carving up the Frankford Yellow Jackets 25-7. The Jackets had been one of the league’s strongest teams since they entered in 1924, but the Depression proved their undoing. Aging stars were replaced by less expensive talent, attendance fell making even less money available for players, and more losses followed. Starting on November 8, the Jackets and Minneapolis Redjackets, another weak team, began pooling their players on days when only one team was scheduled. The two-fer was against league policy, but NFL president Carr closed his eyes in interest of putting competitive teams on the field.
On November 30, the race ended. The Packers beat the Stapes 37-7 on Staten Island while the Giants were upset at home by the Brooklyn Dodgers 7-6. The Dodgers were another new team, having acquired the Dayton Triangles franchise after the 1929 season. They managed a winning record in their first season, mostly through the efforts of Giants castoff Jack McBride, who led the league in scoring with 56 points. He scored all of the Dodgers’ points in the Giants’ fourth loss. Benny Friedman missed the game with a leg injury, but the New Yorkers had no alibi for three losses in four games at the key stretch of the race. The slump cost coach Roy Andrews his job. Friedman and Steve Owen split duties for the Giants’ last two games.
The Giants beat Frankford the next Saturday and Brooklyn on Sunday while the Packers lost on Sunday to the Bears, but the title was already in hand for Curly Lambeau’s squad. On Sunday, December 14, the Packers tied the Portsmouth Spartans 6-6 to clinch the championship over the Giants, who had no league game that day. The Packers finished at 10-3-1, the Giants at 13-4-0, with Green Bay champions by four percentage points.
The Coffin Corner Volume XX, 1998
1930 FINAL NFL STANDINGS
W L T PCT Pts Opp
Green Bay Packers 10 3 1 .769 234 111
New York Giants 13 4 0 .765 308 98
Chicago Bears 9 4 1 .692 169 71
Brooklyn Dodgers 7 4 1 .636 154 59
Providence Steam Roller 6 4 1 .600 90 125
Staten Island Stapletons 5 5 2 .500 95 112
Chicago Cardinals 5 6 2 .455 128 132
Portsmouth Spartans 5 6 3 .455 176 161
Frankford Yellow Jackets 4 13 1 .235 113 321
Minneapolis Redjackets 1 7 1 .125 27 165
Newark Tornadoes 1 10 1 .091 51 190
But while the Giants had no league game on December 14, they did play a game with great significance for pro football in New York. With the Great Depression growing worse, the Giants agreed to meet an all-star team of Notre Dame graduates in the Polo Grounds, with all proceeds going to the New York Unemployment Fund.
Knute Rockne coached the Notre Dame squad, which included the Four Horsemen and other more recent graduates. Rockne and much of the public held pro football in low regard and expected an easy Notre Dame victory.
Benny Friedman and the Giants, however, found the game a great opportunity to convince Rockne and the public of the quality of pro ball. Before a crowd of 55,000, Friedman led the Giants to a pair of quick touchdowns while allowing the Notre Dame players not even a first down.
Legend has it that Rockne went over to the Giants’ dressing room at halftime and begged the pros to take it easy on his boys in the second half. Even though most of the New York regulars sat out the second half, the final score was a one-sided 22-0. The New York Unemployment Fund collected $115,153. Another legend holds that Friedman urged Giants owner Tim Mara to give only $100,000 to the fund and spread the remainder among the New York players. Like the Rockne legend, this one may be more fantasy than fact. Rockne was disliked by many players for his anti-pro statements and Friedman was more admired than liked by his teammates. Although Mara turned every cent over to the Unemployment Fund, the Giants profited from the enormous publicity the press gave the contest. No longer could the public shrug off the pros as clumsy goons.
On that same December 14 and much less publicized at the time, the Chicago Bears defeated the Cardinals 9-7 in a charity exhibition game played indoors at Chicago Stadium, the first indoor pro game since 1903. The truncated 80-yard field was covered with a six-inch layer of dirt. Two years later, the same setting would be used for one of the most significant games of the era.
Other Teams
All top pro players were not in the NFL. Some excellent players preferred to play with the independent teams in non-league cities where they held full-time jobs. Some strong independents, such as the Stapletons and the Portsmouth Spartans, eventually joined the NFL, but others, equally strong, continued to play with no league affiliation. NFL teams often played mid-week or post-season exhibition games with these independents, and some of the wildcatters were quite competitive. The Memphis Tigers, Long Island Bulldogs, Milwaukee Badgers faced NFL teams in exhibitions during 1930.
None, however, matched the Ironton (Ohio) Tanks’ 1930 achievements. The Tanks and Portsmouth Spartans had been strong independent rivals for many years. When the Spartans joined the NFL, they kept the Tanks on their schedule. The Tanks, coached by Greasy Neale and led on the field by former Nebraska star Glenn Presnell, managed one victory in three 1930 meetings with the Spartans. But, late in the season, they caught the New York Giants between strides and beat them 14-13. On November 23 at Cincinnati, they humiliated the Chicago Bears 26-13, with Presnell scoring two touchdowns, one on an 88-yard run. Sadly, it was a last hurrah for the Tanks; the Depression would wipe them out before the 1931 season began. But other independents would survive through the 1930s, bringing often quite respectable pro football to places that might otherwise not have seen it.
1930 INDIVIDIAL SCORING
Player, Team TD TR TP TO XP XA FG FA TOT
Jack McBride, Brk 8 8 0 0 8 9 0 1 56
Verne Lewellen, GB 9 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 54
Ken Strong, SI 7 2 5 0 8 14 1 4 53
Benny Friedman, NYG 6 6 0 0 10 23 1 2 49
Red Grange, ChiB 8 6 2 0 1 0 0 0 49
Len Sedbrook, NYG 8 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 48
Ernie Nevers, ChiC 6 6 0 0 9 14 1 2 48
Chuck Bennett, Port 7 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 42
Chief McLain, Port 7 4 3 0 0 4 0 0 42
Dale Burnett, NYG 6 4 2 0 4 6 0 1 40
Hurdis McCrary, GB 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 36
Rex Thomas, Bkn 5 0 5 0 1 2 0 0 31
Johnny Blood, GB 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 30
Ossie Wiberg, NYG 4 4 0 0 6 8 0 3 30
Jack Hagerty, NYG 5 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 30
Eddie Halicki, Fra-Min 4 3 1 0 6 7 0 1 30
Bronko Nagurski, ChiB 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 30
Luke Johnsos, ChiB 4 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 28
Bill Glassgow, Port 4 3 0 1 4 6 0 1 28
Hap Moran, NYG 4 4 0 0 3 4 0 1 27
1930 ALL-NFL
GA PL CT ML EY GR NV
Lavie Dilweg, GB E 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Luke Johnsos, CHIB E 1 1 1 2 1 1 -
Red Badgro, NYG E 2 1 h 2 - 1 1
Tom Nash, GB E 2 1 h 1 2 - -
Chuck Kassell, ChiC E 3 - 2 - 2 - -
Glenn Campbell, NYG E - - 2 - h - -
Tony Kostos, Fra-Min E 3 - - - h - -
Garland Grange, ChiB E - - - - h - -
Mike Stramiello, Bkn E - - - h - - -
Link Lyman, CHIB T 1 1 2 1 1 1 -
Duke Slater, CHIC T 3 - 1 - 2 1 1
Bill Owen, NYG T - - 1 - 1 1 -
Jap Douds, Prov-Port T 1 - 2 1 2 - -
Cal Hubbard, GB T 3 - h - h 1 1
Steve Owen, NYG T - 1 h - - - -
Red Sleight, GB T - 1 - - h - -
John Ward, Min-Fra T - 1 - - - - -
Bill Kern, GB T 2 - - 2 - - -
Jim Mooney, Nwk-Bkn T 2 - - 2 - - -
Herb Blumer, ChiC T - - h - - - -
Len Grant, NYG T - - - - h - -
Mike Michalske, GB G 1 1 1 - 1 1 1
Walt Kiesling, CHIC G 1 - 2 1 1 1 -
George Gibson, Fra-Min G - 1 1 - 2 - 1
Rudy Comstock, NYG G 2 1 - 1 - - -
Zuck Carlson, ChiB G - - 2 - 2 1 -
Dan McMullen, ChiB G - 1 - 2 h - -
Hec Garvey, Bkn G - - - - - 1 -
Hal Hanson, Fra-Min G 2 - h - - - -
Jim Bowdoin, GB G - - - 2 - - -
Les Caywood, NYG G 3 - - - - - -
Al Graham, Prov-Port G 3 - - - - - -
Fred Roberts, Port G - - - - h - -
Whitey Woodin, GB G - - - - h - -
Nate Barrager, Fra-Min C 3 1 1 - 1 1 -
Joe Westoupal, NYG C 2 1 2 - 2 1 1
Swede Hagberg, Bkn C 1 - - 2 - - -
Bert Pearson, ChiB C - - h 1 h - -
Dick Brown, Port C - - - - h - -
Mickey Erickson, ChiC C - - - - h - -
George Trafton, ChiB C - - - - h - -
Benny Friedman, NYG B 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Red Grange, ChiB B 1 1 1 1 1 - 1
Ernie Nevers, ChiC B 1 1 1 1 1 1 -
Ken Strong, SI B 1 1 2 1 1 1 -
Bronko Nagurski, ChiB B 2 1 1 1U 2 1 1
Red Dunn, GB B 2 1 h - 2 1 -
Johnny Blood, GB B 3 - - - 2 1 1
Willis Glasgow, Port B - - 2 - 2 1 -
Father Lumpkin, Port B 2 1 - - h - -
Herb Joesting, Min-Fra B - - 2 - h 1 -
Frosty Peters, Prov-Port B - - h - h 1 -
Doug Wycoff, SI B - 1 - - h - -
Wild Bill Kelly, Bkn B - - - - - 1 -
Stumpy Thomason, Bkn B 2 - h 2 - - -
Verne Lewellen, GB B - - 2 2 h - -
Jack McBride, Bkn B 3 - h 2 h - -
Carl Brumbaugh, ChiB B 3 - - 2 h - -
Chuck Bennett, Port B 3 - - - h - -
Art Pharmer, Min-Fra B - - h - - - -
Len Sedbrook, NYG B - - h - - - -
Jack Hagerty, NYG B - - - - h - -
Walt Holmer, ChiB B - - - - h - -
Tony Latone, Prov B - - - - h - -
Joe Lintzenich, ChiB B - - - - h - -
Chief mcClain, Port B - - - - h - -
Hurdis McCrary, GB B - - - - h - -
Bo Molenda, GB B - - - - h - -
Hap Moran, NYG B - - - - h - -
Mal Nydahl, Min-Fra B - - - - h - -
Joe Sternaman, ChiB B - - - - h - -
U - Utility Player
GA - Green Bay Press-Gazette
PL - Players & Coaches Poll (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
CT - Chicago Daily Times
ML - Milwaukee Sentinal
EY - Collyer’s Eye & The Baseball World Magazine
GR - Red Grange; Chicago Herald-Examiner
NV - Ernie Nevers: Green Bay Press Gazette
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