{"id":5290,"date":"2017-02-25T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2017-02-25T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T02:21:07","slug":"schedule-1930-portsmouth-spartans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/schedule-1930-portsmouth-spartans\/","title":{"rendered":"On Schedule: 1930 Portsmouth Spartans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a wonderful artifact from the inaugural season of the Detroit Lions franchise. It&#8217;s a schedule for the team&#8217;s original incarnation, the Portsmouth Spartans. Led by head coach Hal Griffen, the Spartans finished 8th in the NFL in 1930 with a 5-6-3 record. A previous owner of this schedule has thoughtfully included the results of the team&#8217;s first 12 games (including non-league matchups).<\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule for the 1930 Spartans, sponsored by Norfolk and Western Railway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5298\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"1930 Portsmouth Spartans NFL schedule\" width=\"363\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-1-1.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-1-1-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5292\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-2.jpg\" alt=\"1930 Portsmouth Spartans NFL schedule\" width=\"728\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-2.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-2-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5291\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-3.jpg\" alt=\"1930 Portsmouth Spartans NFL schedule\" width=\"357\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-3.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/1930-portsmouth-spartans-nfl-schedule-3-137x300.jpg 137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s very thoughtful of the schedule sponsor to include a schedule of train service to and from Portsmouth, Ohio, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a wonderful artifact from the inaugural season of the Detroit Lions franchise. It&#8217;s a schedule for the team&#8217;s original incarnation, the Portsmouth Spartans. Led by head coach Hal Griffen, the Spartans finished 8th in the NFL in 1930 with a 5-6-3 record. A previous owner of this schedule has thoughtfully included the results&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[66,226,91,541,57],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-schedule","tag-1930s","tag-detroit-lions","tag-nfl","tag-portsmouth-spartans","tag-schedules","wpcat-60-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}