In 1923, the NFL fielded a total of twenty teams.  There were three new teams that entered the league including the Duluth Kelleys, the St. Louis All Stars, and a new Cleveland Indians team.  The Evansville Crimson Giants folded from the league, and the Columbus Panhandles changed their name to the Columbus Tigers. For the second consecutive year, the Canton Bulldogs would win the NFL Championship.  Canton finished the season with an unblemished record of 11-0-1.  They would finish two games ahead of the 9-2-1 Chicago Bears. Since there were no playoffs in the Old Era of Pro Football, they were named NFL Champions. It was the second year in a row that the Bulldogs would have an unblemished record. Dating back to the last game of the 1921 season, the Bulldogs would go 25 straight games without a loss.  There record during that stretch was 22-0-3, and is the longest unbeaten streak in NFL history. The Bulldogs defense was so stingy, it yielded a total of 19 points all season, with a whopping eight shutouts. In 1924, Sam Deutsch, the owner of the NFL's Cleveland Indians, bought the Canton Bulldogs and took the Bulldogs name and its players to Cleveland and named his franchise the Cleveland Bulldogs.  He then offered to sell the Canton franchise back to the city of Canton to play in the 1924 season, however there were no buyers interested in the team, so he "mothballed" the Canton club. The Canton Bulldogs were however re-established in 1925, and the NFL considers the 1925 to 1926 Canton Bulldogs to be the same team as the 1920 to 1923 incarnation.