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One other piece of information I found today in a December 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets program

My copy came over the holiday and I really enjoyed it - although the more I look into it the less I think the point about defeating the World Champion New York Giants is valid - the Giants as a team never did a California swing although some NY Giants joined up with other pros as Ernie Nevers Giants...

I think it's a good idea and appreciate your willingness to get it started - and would be glad to help.

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Johnny "Blood" McNally - that would have been an experience!

Thanks for those links and further information. Friedman was not a Giant until 1929 - I think the confusion may be that they just made up names as they went along - and maybe in the advance pr the name of the team the prominent players were on the previous season got used. I found this clipping in t...

Thanks - great help - both for the references found and for the lack of references to a cohesive Giants squad in the post season. Tut Imlay and Ernie Nevers would have been a big draw in California since they were the respective captains of the rivals Cal and Stanford - here's a picture of Imlay and...

I went through newspapers.com filtering it for January 1928 in California and found no articles about a Giants team playing exhibition games there. There were articles about Grange, Wilson, Nevers, and Bradshaw led teams, but no Giants so far. I was hoping if I found a roster it would be possible to...

The day after Christmas 1927 a team made up of New York Giants from the 1927 championship squad and other NFL players met the Hominy Indians in Hominy, Oklahoma. Does anyone know the roster for that game? I've read that the Giants squad was on their way to play some games in California - does anyone...