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Game Date Opponent Result Record Venue Attendance Sources 1 August 8 vs. Los Angeles Rams L 7–30 : 0–1 Multnomah Stadium: 25,261 2 August 15 at San Francisco 49ers: L 35–43
The 1954 New York Giants season was the franchise's 72nd season. The Giants won the National League pennant with a record of 97 wins and 57 losses and then defeated the Cleveland Indians in four games in the World Series .
During the 1953 [3] and 1954 seasons, DuMont broadcast Saturday night NFL games. It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated Monday Night Football on ABC by 17 years. [4]
The Giants have won more than 700 games and appeared in the NFL playoffs 33 times. [1] Though the Giants play home games in East Rutherford, they draw fans from throughout the New York metropolitan area. [2] In 2010, the team began playing in MetLife Stadium, formerly New Meadowlands Stadium. [3] [4]
In the Eastern race, the Eagles got off to a 4–0 start, until dropping games to Pittsburgh (17–7) and Green Bay (37–14) to fall into a three-way tie with the Giants and Steelers. The Browns, who got off to a 1–2 start, went on an 8-game winning streak, gradually catching up with a Halloween win over New York (24–14).
The 1954 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1954 season. The 51st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League champion New York Giants against the American League champion Cleveland Indians .
May 5 – 1953–54 Challenge Cup Final replay is won 8–4 by Warrington against Halifax before a world record crowd for a rugby football match of either code of over 120,000 at Odsal Stadium. [ 2 ] May 8 – 1953–54 Northern Rugby Football League season culminates in Warrington 's 8–7 win over Halifax in the Championship Final at Maine ...
In 1988, future Giants head coach Tom Coughlin joined the team as a wide receivers coach. [12] Both Belichick and Coughlin were on Parcells' staff when the Giants won Super Bowl XXV (a.k.a. the Wide Right game) following the 1990 season. [13] That 1990 season also saw the Giants hand the Patriots their 14th consecutive defeat.