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According to the team, a total of 39,844 season tickets were sold by the Lions for the 1957 campaign. [10] The Lions played their home games in Briggs Stadium (Tiger Stadium), which had a regular listed seating capacity of 46,194, with an additional 7,000 bleacher seats for football to bring total capacity to 53,194.
Steven Norbert Junker (July 22, 1935 – December 13, 2023) was an American football player. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions (1957, 1959–1960) and the Washington Redskins (1961–1962).
The Detroit Lions (8–4), winners of the Western Conference in a playoff the previous week, [7] hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), champions of the Eastern Conference. Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also at Briggs Stadium, but lost quarterback Bobby Layne with a broken right ankle late ...
Roger Zatkoff, one of the last living members of the Detroit Lions' 1957 championship team, died last week at 90 years old.. Zatkoff was a standout linebacker at Michigan and with the Lions in the ...
He was part of the Lions’ last two championship teams, in 1953 and ’57, and remembers beating the 49ers in San Francisco’s old Kezar Stadium in the division title game on Dec. 22, 1957, for ...
When we visited Joe Schmidt in 2017, he still fondly remembered his 1957 Detroit Lions. He was the captain and revealed what made the team great.
He became an All-American football player at Baylor University. Glass lettered three years at Baylor University (1954–56) and was chosen as All-America guard in 1956. He was taken at #12 in the first round of the 1957 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, but signed with the Canadian Football League Saskatchewan Roughriders. [ 3 ]
The Lions’ team MVP in 1955, ‘57-58 and ‘61, Schmidt helped organize what’s now known as the NFL Players Association in the 1950s and was a leading force in getting players training camp ...