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The Packers ended the season by shutting out the New York Giants 37–0 in the NFL Championship Game, the first title game ever played in Green Bay. This was the Packers seventh NFL league championship. The 1961 Packers also featured 12 future Hall of Famers, the most on any single team in NFL history.
The game was a match-up of the Eastern Conference champion New York Giants (10–3–1) and the Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers (11–3). [6] The home team Packers were a 3 + 1 ⁄ 3-point favorite. [1] Packers Ray Nitschke, Boyd Dowler, and Paul Hornung, were on leave from the U.S. Army. [1]
Lambeau Field, the home of the Green Bay Packers since 1957. The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. [1]
Nov. 23, 1961: Green Bay Packers 17, Detroit Lions 9 Nov. 24, 1960 : Detroit Lions 23, Green Bay Packers 10 Nov. 26, 1959 : Green Bay Packers 24, Detroit Lions 17
Yankee Stadium during a New York Giants - Cleveland Browns game in 1961. The 1961 NFL season was the 42nd regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league expanded to 14 teams with the addition of the Minnesota Vikings, after the team's founders declined to be charter members of the new American Football League.
The Packers and Browns met three times in that span, all Green Bay victories, primarily due to Taylor's efforts. The last of those meetings was the 1965 NFL Championship Game, which turned out to be Brown's last game. [56] [55] The first meeting between Taylor and Brown was a week-five game in 1961.
John Gordon, an artist who as a young art student helped design the Green Bay Packers' distinctive “G” team logo, has died at age 83. Gordon died Saturday, said Matt Cotter, the owner of ...
The 1920 Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919, by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. [1] [2] Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from the Indian Packing Company, where he worked as a shipping clerk. He was given $500 ($9,062 in 2024) for uniforms and equipment, and was allowed use of the company ...