| NY GIANTS HISTORY 1930 - 1939 | | |
| 1930 | ●For the second consecutive season, the Green Bay Packers edged out the Giants for the title.
●Ownership of the club was turned over to Jack and Wellington Mara, the two sons of the founder.
●On December 14, the Giants played a team of former Notre Dame All-Stars coached by the legendary Knute Rockne. Fifty-five thousand fans turned out at the Polo Grounds to see the Giants win the contest, 22-0. The proceeds of $115,153 went to the New York Unemployment Fund to help those suffering due to the Great Depression.
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1931
|  ●After an All-American season at Washington State, center Mel Hein wrote to three NFL teams offering his service. The Giants bid the most at $150 per game and Hein was signed to a contract.
●Former tackle Steve Owen was named head coach.
●The Giants finished in 5th place with a 7-6-1 record.
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1932
| ●Considered a rebuilding year, the Giants finished the season with a 4-6-2 record.
●On November 20, the Giants faced the defending champion Green Bay Packers. Expected to be an easy win for the undefeated Packers, 8-0-1 at the time, the Giants displayed promise for the future with a hard- fought, 6-0, victory.
●End Ray Flaherty became the NFL’s first official pass-reception champion with 21 catches.
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1933
| ●The Giants won the Eastern Division of the newly-divided NFL with an impressive 11-3 record. 1
●933 was also the year the NFL established a new playoff system and in the league’s first championship game, the Giants lost to the Western Division champion Chicago Bears, 23-21, at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
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1934
| ●In what is now known as the "Sneakers Game," the Giants defeated the Chicago Bears 30-13 for the NFL title. Trailing 13-3 in the third quarter, some of the Giants players changed into basketball shoes to increase traction on the icy Polo Grounds turf. The Giants responded with a 27-point fourth quarter to capture the championship.
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1935
| ●After beginning the season with a 4-3 record, the Giants rolled off five consecutive victories, shutting out their opponents four times, and finished with a 9-3 record and first place in the Eastern Division.
●The Giants advanced to their third straight NFL championship game, but lost to the Detroit Lions, 26-7, at Detroit.
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| 1936 | ●The initial NFL draft was held in 1936, and the Giants first pick was Art Lewis, a tackle from Ohio University.
●The Giants finished with a 5-6-1 record, marking only the third time in the team’s twelve-year history that it did not have a winning record.
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| 1937 | ● Seventeen rookies helped make up the 25-man roster in 1937, a season that also marked the debut of the now-familiar blue jerseys. The Giants lost to the Washington Redskins on the last day of the season and finished as a runner-up in the Eastern Division with a 6-3-2 record.
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| 1938 | ● A 23-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers produced the Giants third NFL title. A crowd of 48,120 fans attended the title game at the Polo Grounds in New York, a playoff record at the time. With the victory, the Giants earned the distinction of being the first NFL team to win two championship games.
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1939
| ● On January 15, the Giants defeated the Pro All-Stars, 13-10, in the first Pro Bowl held at Wrigley Field, Chicago.
●During the 1939 season, in front of 32,279 fans at Milwaukee State Fair Park, the Green Bay Packers avenged the 1938 loss with a 27-0 drubbing of the Giants in the NFL title game.
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