Peerless Portsmouth and Detroit, City of Champions Memorial Plaque from the 90th Anniversary of the Iron Man Game (4 December 2022)

ID: 904 ~ Source: Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: OSCO, Inc., Portsmouth, Ohio ~ Date: 4 December 2022

This file appears in: Peerless Portsmouth and Detroit, the City of Champions: How the Portsmouth Spartans Helped the Detroit Lions Win the 1935 NFL Championship

This file appears in: Peerless Portsmouth and Detroit, the City of Champions: How the Portsmouth Spartans Helped the Detroit Lions Win the 1935 NFL Championship

Peerless Portsmouth and Detroit, the City of Champions: How the Portsmouth Spartans Helped the Detroit Lions Win the 1935 NFL Championship

By Randy Yohe

The Portsmouth Spartans enhanced their rich NFL history when they moved to Detroit in 1934, became the Detroit Lions and won the 1935 NFL Championship. That Lions team was part of an amazing more than…