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The Packers became a perennial championship team in the NFL for the next decade, playing in the NFL championship game four times. The Packers went a dominating 10–1–1 in 1936, defeating the Boston Redskins for the championship 21–6, then lost the title game to the New York Giants in 1938, then won the title back over the Giants in 1939 ...
Vince Lombardi (COY Tooltip National Football League Coach of the Year Award) [22] Vince Lombardi: 1960: 1960: NFL Western * 1st * 8 4 0 Lost NFL Championship (at Eagles) 13–17 From 1935 to 1960, NFL teams played between 10 and 12 games a season. Prior to 1935, a set number of games was not set. Starting in 1961, the NFL season was set at 14 ...
Under first-year head coach Matt LaFleur, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers opened the season by defeating the Chicago Bears in the season's opening game, the first time since 2003 that the league-wide kickoff game did not feature the defending Super Bowl champions, with the Packers and Bears being selected for their historic rivalry in the NFL's ...
Paul Hornung scored 33 points in one game in 1965, a Packers' record. Matt Flynn tied the Packers' record for most single-game passing yards (480) and touchdowns (6) in the same game in 2012. Billy Howton had 257 receiving yards in a 1956 game, the Packers' record for a single-game. All statistics are accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL ...
While the Packer organization recognizes 1919 as the year this town team was founded, a number of sources show that the 1919 team succeeded teams organized on an annual basis since 1896. Lambeau organized the team in 1919 and brought it to the NFL in 1921 but the tradition of football in Green Bay goes back to 1896, [ 4 ] earlier than any other ...
The Packers have had 15 players and two head coaches named to at least one NFL Anniversary All-Time Team. Don Hutson and Forrest Gregg were the only Packers players to be named to all three NFL Anniversary All-Time Teams, although six others were named to at least two.
The 1960s Team included 13 Packers players, the most the Packers have had selected to one All-Decade Team, followed closely by the 1930s team and its 10 Packers. [5] [9] [10] The 1970s team only included one Packers player, Ted Hendricks, who only played one season in the 1970s for the Packers. [11]
The team finished with a 3–2–1 league record under player and coach Curly Lambeau, earning them a seventh-place finish. After the season the Packers were removed from the league, following their acknowledgment of using Notre Dame players during the season, who played under assumed names. Green Bay would return to the NFL a year later as a ...