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{{short description|Sports season}}
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{{NFL Team Map 1930}}
The '''1930 NFL season''' was the 11th [[regular season]] of the [[National Football League]].
Prior to the season, [[Brooklyn]] bootlegger [[Bill Dwyer (mobster)|Bill Dwyer]] bought the [[Dayton Triangles]], moved them, brought on former [[Orange Tornadoes]] star [[Jack Depler]] as a partner, and renamed them the [[Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)|Brooklyn Dodgers]]. With this move, the league was able to keep the final franchise from the [[Ohio League]] alive, albeit in a new location and with more skilled players, as it was unfeasible for the players in Dayton to move to Brooklyn during the Great Depression. The remains of the Tornadoes, with much of their roster now playing for the relocated Triangles-Dodgers franchise, moved to Newark.
Meanwhile, the [[1930 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]] were named the NFL champions for the second straight year after they finished the season with the best record.▼
The [[History of the Portsmouth Spartans|Portsmouth Spartans]] (now known as the [[Detroit Lions]]) joined the league, while the [[Buffalo (NFL)|Buffalo Bisons]] and the [[Boston Bulldogs (NFL)|Boston Bulldogs]] both folded.
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==Teams==
The league had 11 teams in 1930.
{| class="wikitable"
| style="background-color:#00FF00;font-size: 88%;" | '''First season in NFL * '''
| style="background-color:#FFC40C;font-size: 88%;" | '''Last active season ^ '''
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'''‡''' Player/head coach [[George Gibson (American football)|George Gibson]] was one of the ten players that the [[Minneapolis Red Jackets]] sold to the [[Frankford Yellow Jackets]] after Minneapolis folded following a 1–7–1 start to the season. This enabled Gibson to also serve as player/head coach for Frankford for five games late in the season.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Team
! Head coach(es)
! Stadium
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|[[Chicago Bears]] || [[Ralph Jones]] || [[Wrigley Field]]
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|[[Frankford Yellow Jackets]] || [[Bull Behman]] (10 games) and [[George Gibson (American football)|George Gibson]] ‡ (5 games) || [[Frankford Stadium]]
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|[[Green Bay Packers]] || [[Curly Lambeau]] || [[City Stadium (Green Bay)|City Stadium]]
|- style="background-color:#FFC40C;"
|[[Minneapolis Red Jackets]] ^ || [[George Gibson (American football)|George Gibson]] ‡ || [[Nicollet Park]]
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|- style="background-color:#FFC40C;"
|[[Newark Tornadoes]] ^ || [[Al McGall]] (3 games), [[Andy Salata]], and [[Jack Fish (American football)|Jack Fish]] (9 games) || [[Newark Schools Stadium]]
|- style="background-color:#00FF00;"
|[[History of the Portsmouth Spartans|Portsmouth Spartans]] * || [[Hal Griffen]] || [[Universal Stadium]]
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|[[Providence Steam Roller]] || [[Jimmy Conzelman]] || [[Cycledrome]]
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|[[Staten Island Stapletons]] || [[Doug Wycoff]] || [[Thompson Stadium (Staten Island)|Thompson Stadium]]
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==Championship race==
Defending champion Green Bay won its first
In '''Week Thirteen''', the Giants beat the Yellow Jackets, 14–6, while the Packers lost to the Bears, 21–0, cutting Green Bay's hold on first place to a mere 4/10ths of a percentage point, .769 to .765.
The Giants finished their season at 13–4–0, while 10–3–0 Green Bay had a final game at Portsmouth: a loss would have given the Packers a 10–4–0 finish and a .714 percentage,
Once again, the point after decided the race.
Had the current (post-1972) system of counting ties as half a win and half a loss been in place in 1930, the tie would have given the Giants ( ==Standings==
{{1930 NFL standings}}
▲*[[Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)|Brooklyn Dodgers]]: [[]]
▲*[[Chicago Cardinals]]: [[Dewey Scanlon]]
▲*[[New York Giants]]: [[LeRoy Andrews]] and [[Benny Friedman]]
==References==
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