1928 Providence Steam Roller (NFL) |
| 1st place • 8-1-2 .889 |
| Head Coach: Jimmy Conzelman |
| SCORES | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Date | Opponent | Result | Location | Venue | Attendance | |||
| Sun | 9/23/1928 | H | Long Island Warlow A.C. | 48-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | ||
| Sun | 9/30/1928 | H | New York Yankees | 20-7 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 4000 | |
| Sun | 10/7/1928 | H | Frankford Yellow Jackets | 6-10 | L | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 8000 | |
| Sun | 10/14/1928 | H | Dayton Triangles | 28-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 7000 | |
| Sun | 10/21/1928 | A | New York Yankees | 12-6 | W | New York, NY | Yankee Stadium | 7000 | |
| Sun | 10/28/1928 | H | Pottsville Maroons | 13-6 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 8000 | |
| Sun | 11/4/1928 | H | Detroit Wolverines | 7-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 8000 | |
| Sat | 11/10/1928 | A | Pere Marquette | 14-7 | W | Boston, MA | Braves Field | ||
| Sun | 11/11/1928 | H | Pere Marquette | 20-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 6000 | |
| Sat | 11/17/1928 | A | Frankford Yellow Jackets | 6-6 | T | Philadelphia, PA | Frankford Stadium | 8000 | |
| Sun | 11/18/1928 | H | Frankford Yellow Jackets | 6-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 9727 | |
| Sun | 11/25/1928 | H | New York Giants | 16-0 | W | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 11987 | |
| Thu | 11/29/1928 | A | Pottsville Maroons | 7-0 | W | Minersville, PA | Minersville Park | 10000 | |
| Sun | 12/2/1928 | H | Green Bay Packers | 7-7 | T | Providence, RI | Providence Cycledrome | 9000 | |
| ROSTER | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | No | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | College | GP | GS |
| Jimmy Conzelman | 1 | BB-S-FB-LB | 6-0 | 175 | 30 | Washington-St. Louis | 4 | 3 |
| Bill Cronin | 6 | FB-LB-WB-RDH-ROE-RDE | 5-10 | 182 | 27 | Boston College | 9 | 1 |
| Jack Cronin | 5 | WB-RDH-LOE-LDE-TB-LDH | 5-11 | 178 | 25 | Boston College | 8 | 5 |
| Jack Fleischmann | 14 | ROG-RDG-LOG-LDG-ROT-RDT | 5-6 | 184 | 27 | Purdue | 10 | 6 |
| Al Hadden | 18 | FB-LB-WB-RDH | 5-8 | 186 | 29 | Washington & Jefferson | 9 | 7 |
| Frank Hanny | 8 | LOE-LDE | 6-0 | 199 | 31 | Indiana | 11 | 10 |
| Norm Harvey | 9 | ROE-RDE-LOE-LDE | 6-0 | 196 | 29 | Detroit Mercy | 8 | 4 |
| Perry Jackson | 13 | ROT-RDT-LOT-LDT | 6-1 | 202 | 22 | Southwestern Oklahoma State | 10 | 7 |
| Jim Laird | 16 | LOG-LDG-ROG-RDG | 6-0 | 194 | 31 | Colgate | 8 | 0 |
| Curly Oden | 2 | BB-S-TB-LDH-RDH | 5-6 | 162 | 29 | Brown | 11 | 9 |
| Milt Rehnquist | 12 | LOG-LDG-ROG-RDG-C-MG-ROT-RDT | 6-0 | 229 | 31 | Bethany (Kansas) | 11 | 11 |
| Jim Simmons | 4 | WB-RDH-TB-LDH-FB-LB-LOT-LDT | 6-0 | 186 | 25 | Southwestern Oklahoma State | 9 | 4 |
| Clyde Smith | 11 | C-MG | 5-10 | 181 | 24 | Missouri | 11 | 11 |
| Orland Smith | 15 | ROT-RDT-LOT-LDT | 5-11 | 203 | 23 | Brown | 9 | 2 |
| Gus Sonnenberg | 20 | LOT-LDT-ROT-RDT-TB-LDH | 5-6 | 196 | 30 | Dartmouth; Detroit Mercy | 11 | 10 |
| Jack Spellman | 10 | ROE-RDE-ROT-RDT-LOT-LDT-LOE-LDE | 5-10 | 201 | 29 | Brown | 11 | 10 |
| Art Williams | 3 | FB-LB-WB-RDH-TB-LDH | 6-0 | 205 | 22 | Connecticut | 7 | 5 |
| Abe Wilson | 17 | ROG-RDG-LOG-LDG-ROT-RDT | 5-10 | 192 | 29 | Washington | 9 | 5 |
| George Wilson | 33 | TB-LDH-WB-RDH | 5-10 | 200 | 27 | Washington | 11 | 11 |
| SCORING BY QUARTERS | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 32 | 43 | 21 | 32 | 128 |
| Opponents Totals | 0 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 42 |
| SCORING | TD | X1 | X1A | PCT | FG | FGA | PCT | SAF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Wilson | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||
| Curly Oden | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 27 | ||
| Art Williams | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||
| Jack Cronin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||
| Jimmy Conzelman | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||
| Gus Sonnenberg | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 12.5 | 0 | 10 | ||
| Frank Hanny | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Al Hadden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Team Totals | 19 | 11 | 19 | 57.9 | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 128 |
| Opponents Totals | 6 | 3 | 6 | 50.0 | 1 | 0 | 42 |
| FIELD GOALS | MADE | ATT | PCT | BL | LG | 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gus Sonnenberg | 1 | 8 | 12.5 | 28 | 0/ | 1/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | |
| Curly Oden | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | ||
| Team Totals | 1 | 28 | 0/ | 1/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | |||
| Opponents Totals | 1 | 0/ | 0/ | 1/ | 0/ | 0/ |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Wilson | 5 | ||||
| Jack Cronin | 3 | ||||
| Art Williams | 3 | ||||
| Curly Oden | 1 | ||||
| Team Totals | 12 | ||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
| PASSING | ATT | COM | PCT | INC | YDS | Y/ATT | Y/COM | LG | TD | TD% | INT | INT% | TS | YL | NYP | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Wilson | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Gus Sonnenberg | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Team Totals | 6 | |||||||||||||||
| Opponents Totals | 4 |
| RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curly Oden | 3 | ||||||||
| Jimmy Conzelman | 2 | ||||||||
| Art Williams | 1 | ||||||||
| Team Totals | 6 | ||||||||
| Opponents Totals | 4 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Hanny | 1 | ||||
| Team Totals | 1 | ||||
| Opponents Totals | 1 |
| PUNT RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 0 | |||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 0 | |||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
| FUMBLES | NO | LOST | OWN | OPP | REC | YDS | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 0 | ||||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
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