Cincinnati also seems to have played host to the smallest paid crowd in league history when approximately 300 fans braved a steady drizzle to watch the team be shut out by the Philadelphia Eagles on November 5.
[3] Once again the Reds would fail to score, with halfback Joe Lillard out of the University of Oregon — characterized by the local press as a "giant Negro" despite his quite mortal stature of 6'0" and 185 pounds — the star of the game.
[4] Only the fact that the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers found themselves in the same weather situation on the same day with the same 31 punt result has kept the Reds from sitting atop alone the record book in this dubious category.
[5] Only the merciful coach of the Dodgers, John McEwan, kept the debacle from getting out of hand by sitting on the ball to avoid running up the score after the four-score lead was achieved.
On November 5, the Reds seem to have been host to one of the smallest crowds in NFL history, when under a steady rain fewer than 500 partisans assembled at Redland Field to watch another shutout loss, this time 6–0 to an only-slightly-less-hapless expansion team, the Philadelphia Eagles.
On the third play from scrimmage, Cincinnati back Lew Pope popped off a 46-yard touchdown run, and despite a 0-for-2 passing day the Reds would hold on to win, 12–9.
[9] They would finish the season winning three games out of four, posting victories over the Portsmouth Spartans — a franchise soon to be sold and moved to Detroit — and a rematch with the Brooklyn Dodgers.