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1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets season
1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets season
Head coach	Ed Weir
Home field	Frankford Stadium
Results
Record	11–3–2 (NFL) ; (16–3–2 Overall)
League place	2nd NFL
	← 1927; Frankford Yellow Jackets; 1929 →;

The 1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets season was their fifth in the National Football League. The team returned ten veterans from their 1927 team.^[1]

The team improved on their 1927 record of 6–9–3 by winning eleven games.^[2] They finished second in the league standings with a winning percentage of .786.^[3]

Schedule

Game	Date	Opponent	Result	Attendance	Venue	Recap	Sources
–	September 16, 1928	at Orange Tornadoes	W 12–0		K of C Stadium		^[4]
1	September 23, 1928	at Green Bay Packers	W 19–9	6,500	City Stadium	Recap
2	September 29, 1928	Dayton Triangles	W 6–0	4,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
–	October 6, 1928	Marquette University	W 14–0		Frankford Stadium
3	October 7, 1928	at Providence Steam Roller	W 10–6	8,000	Cycledrome	Recap	^[5]
4	October 13, 1928	New York Yankees	L 13–0	6,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
5	October 20, 1928	Dayton Triangles	W 13–9	7,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
–	October 21, 1928	at Staten Island Stapletons	W 14–13		Thompson Stadium
–	October 27, 1928	Millville Big Blue	W 26–0		Frankford Stadium
–	October 28, 1928	at Clifton Heights Panthers	W 20–6		Kent Field
6	November 3, 1928	Detroit Wolverines	W 25–7	8,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap	^[6]
7	November 4, 1928	at New York Giants	T 0–0	3,000	Polo Grounds	Recap	^[7]
8	November 10, 1928	Pottsville Maroons	W 19–0		Frankford Stadium	Recap
9	November 11, 1928	at Pottsville Maroons	W 24–0		Minersville Park	Recap
10	November 17, 1928	Providence Steam Roller	T 6–6	9,000 ^[8]	Frankford Stadium	Recap	^[5]
11	November 18, 1928	at Providence Steam Roller	L 6–0	12,000	Cycledrome	Recap	^[5]
12	November 24, 1928	Chicago Cardinals	W 19–0	8,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
13	November 29, 1928	Green Bay Packers	W 2–0	8,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
14	December 2, 1928	at Chicago Bears	L 28–6	12,000	Wrigley Field	Recap
15	December 8, 1928	New York Giants	W 7–0	3,500	Frankford Stadium	Recap
16	December 15, 1928	Chicago Bears	W 19–0	7,000	Frankford Stadium	Recap
–	December 16, 1928	at Clifton Heights Panthers	W 52–3		Kent Field

Standings

NFL standings
view talk edit	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA	STK
Providence Steam Roller	8	1	2	.889	128	42	T1
Frankford Yellow Jackets	11	3	2	.786	175	84	L1
Detroit Wolverines	7	2	1	.778	189	76	W4
Green Bay Packers	6	4	3	.600	120	92	W1
Chicago Bears	7	5	1	.583	182	85	L2
New York Giants	4	7	2	.364	79	136	L5
New York Yankees	4	8	1	.333	103	179	W1
Pottsville Maroons	2	8	0	.200	74	134	L1
Chicago Cardinals	1	5	0	.167	7	107	L4
Dayton Triangles	0	7	0	.000	9	131	L7

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

References

^ "Wallie Diehl to Play with Frankford Team," Hazelton Standard-Speaker, Sept. 17, 1928, p. 8.
^ 1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets
^ Pro Football Archives 1928 Frankford Yellow Jackets season
^ "Orange Eleven Bows to Yellow Jackets," Plainfield [NJ] Courier-News, Sept. 17, 1928, p. 20.
^ ^a ^b ^c Greg D. Tranter, The Providence Steam Roller: New England's First NFL Team. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2024; pp. 236-237.
^ "Frankford Yellow Jackets Jolt Wolverines, 25 to 7," Atlantic City Sunday Press, Nov. 4, 1928, p. 28.
^ "Giants—Frankford Tie," Yonkers Statesman, Nov. 5, 1928, p. 12.
^ Tranter has attendance for this game as 15,000, which is probably a typo.