1930 Portsmouth Spartans

Per Jeffrey Payne of the Vintage Football Community...

" (I) Was reading the book: "Home & Away: The Rise and Fall of Professional Football on the Banks of the Ohio" by Carl M. Becker and saw that he describes their uniforms in pretty good detail a few times. Thought I'd share it with you if any of this is new info.

P. 218 - This is in a chapter discussing the 1930 season, their first in the NFL

"The players that survived the cuts wore new uniforms. Abandoning the old blue and white colors, Spartan officials arrayed the team in all purple uniforms, with numerals on the backs of the jerseys and white wings on the forehead of the helmets."

P. 223 - Still discussing 1930 season

"Observers of the game thought that the uniforms, virtually all purple, needed more contrasting colors ... The Spartan management ordered new uniforms, purple jerseys with black stripes on the front and white numerals on the back, black pants made of an airplane cloth with a purple knit insert on the back. Socks and headgear would remain the same."

11/2/30 - PORT @ GB

Lightened the shade of purple to allow better contrast with black chest stripes shown on Spartan in the middle of the photo facing the camera. Also altered font of the '1' to match #21 at left.

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1929-30 Chicago Cardinals

Back numbers had no serif.
Added space between numbers and white chest band.
Moved stripes down the sleeve and closer together.
Made sock stripes the same width as sleeve stripes.

12/1/29 - CHC @ NYG

12/1/29 - CHC @ NYG

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1929-30 New York Giants

Giants adopted uniforms from the newly acquired Detroit Wolverines and wore them in combinations with existing Giants uniforms.
Giants only wore red/white/blue socks in 1930.

10/5/30 - NYG @ GB

10/13/29 - SIS @ NYG

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1929-31 Staten Island Stapletons

Softened the yellows for 1929-31.

Added additional 1929 combo with full-navy jersey (no white backs).

11/3/29 - Orange @ SI Stapletons

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1930 Brooklyn Dodgers

Gripstrips on chest and arms changed to gold/khaki from silver/grey.
Side panels added to jerseys.
Helmet changed to gold.
Removed non-gripstrip version.

9/21/30 - BRK @ CHB

12/1/30 NY Herald-Tribune refers to Brooklyn as 'Green and Gold.'

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1928-30 Chicago Bears

Bears wore half-white/half-navy socks as with 1925-27.

10/14/28 NYG @ CHB

11/16/29 - CHB @ FYJ

10/19/30 - CHB @ CHC

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1929-31 Staten Island Stapletons

Enlarged numbers on the backs of 1931 jerseys and enlarged the white portion of the jersey backs almost up to the collar.

Made the backs of the 1929-30 jerseys identical to the 1931 jerseys.

10/18/31 - SIS @ NYG

10/18/31 - SIS @ NYG

11/2/30 - SIS @ NYG

10/13/29 - SIS @ NYG

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1930 Chicago Bears

Modified pattern of  "grip strips" based on photos.

November 16, 1930, New York Giants at Chicago Bears:

November 27, 1930, Chicago Cardinals at Chicago Bears:

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1929-30 Green Bay Packers

Based on research, determined that the 1929 gold jersey has the same circle that the navy jersey had, plus that the lighter colored jersey in 1930 was actually yellow instead of a lighter blue & that they also wore a navy jersey that year as well.

November 23, 1930, Green Bay Packers at New York Giants:

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1929-30 Chicago Cardinals

Adjusted collars on both years, added second combo for 1930 based on 11/27/30 picture.

October 20, 1929, Chicago Cardinals at Chicago Bears:

November 27, 1930, Chicago Cardinals at Chicago Bears:

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