1929 Buffalo Bisons (NFL) season

The 1929 Buffalo Bisons season was their ninth and final season in the league. The team marginally improved on their previous output of 0–5, winning one game.[1] They finished tenth in the league.

1929 Buffalo Bisons season
Head coachAl Jolley
Results
Record1–7–1
Division place10th NFL

After suspending operations halfway through the 1927 season, the Buffalo Bisons, name intact, returned for what turned out to be a farewell season, with Al Jolley (a former player for the Oorang Indians) taking over as head coach. Jolley's dubious trademark was his teams' lack of offensive production; the Bisons never scored more than 7 points in the entire season (they had been shut out thrice) until their final game, a 19–7 win over the Chicago Bears (ironically, the very team that had robbed them of a league title at the peak of the team's success in 1921). In their first seven games, the Bisons never led during regulation, holding this dubious feat until the 2012 Kansas City Chiefs broke the record at eight games during regulation.[2] This was, however, still an improvement from their 1927 season, when the team failed to score any points in all but one of their games.

The still-struggling Bisons franchise was folded at the end of a 1–7–1 season. Though the league flirted with returning to Buffalo in the late 1930s and again in 1950, it did not do so until the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, which added the Buffalo Bills to the league.

Jolley went on to coach the Cincinnati Reds in 1933; true to form, Jolley's Reds set a record for fewest points scored per game in a season (3.8) in the modern era (which did not begin until 1932).

Schedule
Game Date Opponent Result Record
1 September 29 Chicago Cardinals L 3–9 0–1
2 October 5 at Frankford Yellow Jackets L 0–19 0–2
3 October 6 Frankford Yellow Jackets L 0–13 0–3
4 October 13 Chicago Bears L 0–16 0–4
5 October 20 at Providence Steam Roller T 7–7 0–4–1
6 October 27 at Boston Bulldogs L 6–14 0–5–1
7 November 5 New York Giants L 6–45 0–6–1
8 November 17 at Boston Bulldogs L 7–12 0–7–1
9 November 24 at Chicago Bears W 19–7 1–7–1

Standings
NFL standings
W L T PCT PF PA STK
Green Bay Packers 12 0 1 1.000 198 22 W2
New York Giants 13 1 1 .929 312 86 W4
Frankford Yellow Jackets 10 4 5 .714 129 128 W1
Chicago Cardinals 6 6 1 .500 154 83 W1
Boston Bulldogs 4 4 0 .500 98 73 L1
Staten Island Stapletons 3 4 3 .429 89 65 L2
Providence Steam Roller 4 6 2 .400 107 117 L1
Orange Tornadoes 3 5 4 .375 35 80 L1
Chicago Bears 4 9 2 .308 119 227 L1
Buffalo Bisons 1 7 1 .125 48 142 W1
Minneapolis Red Jackets 1 9 0 .100 48 185 L7
Dayton Triangles 0 6 0 .000 7 136 L6

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

References
  1. 1929 Buffalo Bisons
  2. "Kansas City Chiefs tie 83-year-old mark of shame". National Football League. November 1, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2012.
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