NFL 1931

1931 NFL season
Regular season
season	1931
NFL Champion	Green Bay Packers
NFL season  <1930 1932>

The NFL season in 1931 was the twelfth season of American Football League National Football League (NFL). The Green Bay Packers won the championship for the third time in a row.

Due to the global economic crisis, only ten teams competed. The Frankford Yellow Jackets had to stop playing during the season due to a lack of funds. The Minneapolis Red Jackets and the Newark Tornadoes could not even start playing.

As a new team, the Cleveland Indians (with the Newark Tornadoes franchise) took part in the competition.

table

team	S.	N	U	SQ
Green Bay Packers	12	2	0	.857
Portsmouth Spartans	11	3	0	.786
Chicago Bears	8th	5	0	.615
Chicago Cardinals	5	4th	0	.556
New York Giants	7th	6th	1	.538
Providence Steam Roller	4th	4th	3	.500
Staten Island Stapletons	4th	6th	1	.400
Cleveland Indians	2	8th	0	.200
Brooklyn Dodgers	2	12	0	.143
Frankford Yellow Jackets	1	6th	1	.143

literature

• National Football League: 2005 NFL Record & Fact Book . Sports Illustrated, 2005, ISBN 1-932994-36-X .