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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.
Green Bay Packers seasonal records; Season Team League [4] Conference Division Regular season [4] Postseason results [10] Awards Head coaches [11] Notes Finish W L T; 1919: 1919 – – – – 10: 1: 0 – – – The Packers did not compete in a professional league until 1921. [4] 1920: 1920 – – – – 9: 1: 1 – – – 1921: 1921 ...
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]
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.
The first preseason game — in this case, a 4:25 p.m. kickoff against the Green Bay Packers — doesn't draw the same level of overreaction as the first regular-season game. Want to see some hot ...
Keisean Nixon fumbled the opening kickoff and the Green Bay Packers were never able to pick up the pieces. Nixon's lost fumble was the first in a series of blunders in a 22-10 loss at the ...
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 ...