 "8 tied with 12 points each"

"8 tied with one touchdown pass each"

"19 tied with one touchdown catch each"

"15 tied with one touchdown run each"

While a new nine-team AFL was competing against a National Football League that expanded to 26 teams for the 1926 season, optimism yielded to economic reality for both leagues as most professional football franchises were on financially shaky ground.The war for talent and audience had a disastrous effect on all but the strongest teams.Of the 31 teams that were in existence in 1926, only 12 survived to play in 1927.