1936 NFL season

1936 National Football League season
Regular season
Duration	September 13 – December 13, 1936
East Champions	Boston Redskins
West Champions	Green Bay Packers
Championship Game
Champions	Green Bay Packers

The 1936 NFL season was the 17th regular season of the National Football League. For the first time since the league was founded, there were no team transactions; neither a club folded nor did a new one join the NFL. 1936 was the third season of the NFL's 12-year ban on black players. 1936 was also the first year in which all league teams played the same number of games. Since this season, the number of scheduled regular season games per team has been:

12 in 1936
11 from 1937 to 1942 and in 1946
10 from 1943 to 1945
12 from 1947 to 1960
14 from 1961 to 1977
16 since 1978

The season ended when the Green Bay Packers defeated the Boston Redskins in the NFL Championship Game. For the only time in NFL history, the team with the home field advantage declined to play at their own stadium and instead elected to play at a neutral site. Due to poor attendance, the Redskins moved the game from Boston to the Polo Grounds in New York City.

Draft

The 1936 NFL Draft, the first ever draft held by the NFL, was held on February 8, 1936 at Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. With the first pick, the Philadelphia Eagles selected halfback Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago.

Major rule changes

A draft shall be held to assign all new players entering the league for the first time to teams in an arbitrary and equitable manner.
The penalty for an illegal forward pass that is thrown beyond the line of scrimmage is five yards from the spot of the foul.

Division races

In the Western Division, the Bears reached 6–0–0 and the Packers 5–1–0 midway through the 12 game season, the Packers only loss having been 30–3 to Chicago. On November 1, Green Bay beat the Bears 21–10 to give both teams a 6–1–0 record. Both teams continued to win, and both were 9–1–0 as Thanksgiving approached. The Bears lost their last two games, while Green Bay lost neither, putting the Packers into the title game. In the Eastern Division, the Pittsburgh Pirates were at 6–5–0, and the Boston Redskins at 5–5–0, when they met on November 29 in Boston before a crowd of only 7,000. The Pirates lost, 30–0, falling to 6–6–0, and could only hope that 6–5–0 Boston would do the same in their last game; instead, the Redskins won at New York, 14–0 before 18,000. Since the Eastern winner had the right to host the '36 title game, George Preston Marshall spurned Boston to play the championship game at New York as well, where 29,545 turned out. Marshall would move the Redskins to Washington for 1937.

Final standings

W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF= Points For, PA = Points Against

Note: The NFL did not officially count tie games in the standings until 1972

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Eastern Division
Boston Redskins	7	5	0	.583	149	110
Pittsburgh Pirates	6	6	0	.500	98	187
New York Giants	5	6	1	.455	115	163
Brooklyn Dodgers	3	8	1	.273	92	161
Philadelphia Eagles	1	11	0	.083	51	206

Team	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA
Western Division
Green Bay Packers	10	1	1	.909	248	118
Chicago Bears	9	3	0	.750	222	94
Detroit Lions	8	4	0	.667	235	102
Chicago Cardinals	3	8	1	.273	74	143

NFL Championship Game

Green Bay 21, Boston 6, at Polo Grounds, New York City, December 13, 1936

League leaders

Statistic	Name	Team	Yards
Passing	Arnie Herber	Green Bay	1239
Rushing	Tuffy Leemans	New York	830
Receiving	Don Hutson	Green Bay	536

Coaching changes

Boston Redskins: Eddie Casey was replaced by Ray Flaherty.
Philadelphia Eagles: Lud Wray was replaced by Bert Bell.

Stadium changes

The Philadelphia Eagles moved from the Baker Bowl to Philadelphia Municipal Stadium

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References

NFL Record and Fact Book (ISBN 1-932994-36-X)
NFL History 1931–1940 (Last accessed December 4, 2005)
Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League (ISBN 0-06-270174-6)

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