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The 1961 Green Bay Packers season was their 43rd season overall and their 41st season in the National Football League. The team finished with an 11–3 record under third-year head coach Vince Lombardi, earning them a first-place finish in the Western Conference. The Packers ended the season by shutting out the New York Giants 37–0 in the NFL ...
1. Gene Ronzani (2–7–1) Ray McLean / Hugh Devore (0–2) Gene Ronzani resigned with two games remaining in the 1953 season; assistant coaches Ray McLean and Hugh Devore shared interim head coaching duties for the remainder of the season.[20] National Conference renamed to Western Conference.[21] 1954.
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 schedule was also expanded from 12 games per team to 14 games per team where it would ...
The 1961 NFL Championship Game was the 29th title game. It was played on December 31 at "New" City Stadium, later known as Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with an attendance of 39,029. [2][3][4] The contest was touted as "The Million Dollar Game," owing to the $600,000 in television broadcast rights paid to the NFL by NBC combined with ...
Davante Adams set the Packers' single-season receiving records for completions, yards and touchdowns over a two-season period. Blake Martinez set the Packers' single-season record for most tackles in 2019 with 203. Randall Cobb set the record for the longest kick return at 108 yards in the first game of his NFL career.
Pro Football Hall of Fame. James Charles Taylor (September 20, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, with the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1966 and with the expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. With the Packers, Taylor was invited to ...
Paul Vernon Hornung (December 23, 1935 – November 13, 2020), nicknamed "the Golden Boy", was an American professional football halfback and kicker who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1966 (except the 1963 NFL season, for which he was suspended after a scandal involving gambling and associating with gamblers).
The 1961 Detroit Lions season was the 32nd season in franchise history. ... at Green Bay Packers: W 17–13 1–0 32,150. 2 September 24 at Baltimore Colts: W 16–15