1942 Packers (8-2-1)

Don Hutson caught lightning in a bottle this season, in addition to a lot of passes. With the Packers' offense stressing the air game, Hutson set a new NFL single-season record for receptions, yards gained on receptions, touchdown passes caught, and points scored. QB Cecil Isbell set a few records himself, in yards gained passing and touchdown passes. No one in the NFL had yet learned how to cover the crafty Hutson, and Isbell rarely missed the receiver in the open. Hutson also kicked extra points for Green Bay, building up a record 138 points that went unmatched until future Packer Paul Hornung passed him in 1960. Even with this premier combination, however, the Packers were only the second-best team in the league. They lost twice all year, but unfortunately did so at the hands of the unbeaten Chicago Bears. No excuses could be offered, as even with Clarke Hinkle in the Coast Guard, youngsters Ted Fritsch, Charlie Sample and Tony Canadeo picked up the slack.

THE FALLEN OF WORLD WAR TWO: SMILEY JOHNSON

World War II claimed the lives of 23 NFL men – 21 active or former players, an ex-head coach and a team executive. Few remember Howard W. “Smiley” Johnson’s exploits on the football field. But his name holds a special place of honor at two of the nation’s most storied football programs. Johnson was a star fullback and guard at the University of Georgia from 1937 to 1939. He then spent two seasons as a guard for the Green Bay Packers before joining the Marine Corps soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Johnson set no records on the football field, but his name appears on the War Memorial at the University of Georgia campus and in the Packers Hall of Fame at Lambeau Field. He’s the only player in the history of the Packers who has been killed in combat. His Green Bay memorial was not created until 2006, at the urging of former Packers general manager Ron Wolf. Johnson is one of three former NFLers killed in the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. He was posthumously awarded a Gold Star for his actions on Iwo Jima. In fact, his concern for the welfare of his own men may have contributed to his death. After getting hit by a shell, Johnson directed a corpsman to help others who had also been hit. He died of his wounds while those others were being aided. According to a report on PackersNews.com, the 28-year-old

Johnson left behind a wife and a 1-year-old daughter. His wife Marie’s struggles to raise a child without a father were chronicled in the book “Roads and Crossroads.” A year earlier, Johnson earned a Silver Star for “conspicuous gallantry” during the battle for Saipan. Johnson’s memory is honored each year as the outstanding lineman in the Peach Bowl is presented with the Smiley Johnson Award. (SOURCE: Coldhardfootballfacts.com)

NAME NO POS HGT WGT COLLEGE YR PR A G HOW ACQUIRED

Paul Berezney 47 T 6- 2 220 Fordham 1 1 26 11

Charley Brock 29 C 6- 1 209 Nebraska 4 4 26 11 1939 Draft-3rd

Lou Brock 16 HB 6- 0 192 Purdue 3 3 24 11 1940 Draft-3rd

Tony Canadeo 3 HB 6- 0 195 Gonzaga 2 2 23 11 1941 Draft-7th

Joe Carter 58 E 6- 1 200 SMU 1 9 30 11 FA - Phil (1940)

Larry Craig 54 E 6- 0 205 S. Carolina 4 4 26 11 1939 Draft-6th

Tiny Croft 75 T 6- 4 300 Ripon 1 1 21 8

Bob Flowers 35 C 6- 1 205 Texas Tech 1 1 25

Ted Fritsch 64 FB 5-10 205 Stevens Point 1 1 21 11

Buckets Goldenberg 43 G 5-10 220 Wisconsin 10 10 30 11

Harold Hinte 15 E 6- 1 195 Pittsburgh 1 1 22 1

Don Hutson 14 E 6- 1 178 Alabama 8 8 29 11

Bob Ingalls 53 C 6- 3 200 Michigan 1 1 23 11 1942 Draft-18th

Cecil Isbell 17 HB 6- 1 190 Purdue 5 5 27 11 1938 Draft-1st

Harry Jacunski 48 E 6- 2 202 Fordham 4 4 26 6

Bob Kahler 8 T 6- 3 200 Nebraska 1 1 25 7

Royal Kahler 72 T 6- 3 225 Nebraska 1 2 24 9 FA-Pitt (1941)

William Kuusisto 45 G 6- 0 225 Minnesota 2 2 24

Joe Laws 24 HB 5- 9 182 Iowa 9 9 31 10

Bill Lee 40 T 6- 3 240 Alabama 6 8 30 1 FA-Brook (1937)

Russ Letlow 46 G 6- 0 220 San Francisco 7 7 28 5 1936 Draft-1st

Joel Mason 7 E 6- 0 198 W. Michigan 1 2 29 11 FA-Cards (1939)

Earl Ohlgren 23 E 6- 0 198 Minnesota 1 1 24

Keith Ranspot 27 E 6- 0 190 SMU 1 2 27 5 FA-Detroit (1942)

Baby Ray 44 T 6- 6 245 Vanderbilt 5 5 26 11

Ray Riddick 5 E 6- 0 220 Fordham 3 3 24 3

Chuck Sample 38 FB 5- 9 202 Toledo 1 1 22 9

Ben Starret 63 B 5-11 210 St. Mary's (CA) 1 2 24 5 FA-Pitt (1941)

John Stonebreaker 51 E 6- 3 200 USC 1 1 24 9

Pete Tinsley 21 G 5- 8 200 Georgia 5 5 29 11 1938 Draft-9th

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NAME NO POS HGT WGT COLLEGE YR PR A G HOW ACQUIRED

Andy Uram 42 HB 5-10 188 Minnesota 5 5 27 11 1938 Draft-4th

Fred Vant Hull 18 T/G 6- 0 213 Minnesota 1 1 22 10

Dick Weisgerber 33 HB 5-10 198 Williamette 4 4 27 5

NO - Jersey Number POS - Position HGT - Height WGT - Weight YR - Years with Packers PR - Years of Professional Football AGE - Age at Start of Season G - Games Played

1942 PACKERS DRAFT (December 22, 1941)

RND SEL NAME POS COLLEGE

1 9 Urban Odson T Minnesota

2 Did not draft

3 24 Ray Frankowski G Washington

4 Did not draft

5 39 Bill Green B Iowa

6 49 Joe Krivonak G South Carolina

7 59 Preston Johnston B Southern Methodist

8 69 Joe Rogers E Michigan

9 79 Noah Langdale T Alabama

10 89 Gene Flick C Minnesota

11 99 Tom Farris B Wisconsin

12 109 Jimmy Richardson B Marquette

13 119 Bruce Smith B Minnesota

14 129 Bill Applegate G South Carolina

15 139 Jim Trimble T Indiana

16 149 Tom Kinkade B Ohio State

17 159 Fred Preston E Nebraska

18 169 Bob Ingalls C Michigan

19 179 George Benson B Northwestern

20 189 Horace (Deacon) Young B Southern Methodist

21 194 Henry Woronicz E Boston College

22 199 Woody Adams T Texas Christian

BOLD - Played for the Packers

PLAYER AND ATTENDANCE RECORDS SHATTERED IN PRO FOOTBALL LOOP

JAN 3 (Chicago) - Unprecedented record breaking, greater attendance - and increased prestige ushered in a new era for professional football during 1941. It becomes increasingly trite with the passing of each season to review National league activities in these superlatives, but it is a matter of record that in each of the last 11 falls professional football has contrived to progress beyond all its previous advancements. Among the developments which made 1941 the most remarkable of the league's 22 years are: (1) Signing on February 3 of Elmer Layden, head coach and athletic director at the University of Notre Dame as commissioner of professional football. (2) Total paid admissions of 1,118,616 for 55 regularly scheduled games, an increase of nine percent over the previous high of 1,063,022 established in 1940. (3) Establishment of a closer union and better understanding between the major league and its minor league contemporaries, effected by Layden in his new office as commissioner. (4) The first playoff for a divisional championship since the league was split into eastern and western sections in 1933. (5) Successful defense of its title by a champion of the first time since the playoff system was inaugurated in 1933. Signing of Layden to a five-yard contract brought the National league the administrative stability imperative to the successful operation of a five million dollar enterprise. Under his guidance the National league quickly embarked on a series of reforms which enhanced its prestige in quarters where previously there had been a tendency to scoff. Outside the executive councils, the story of professional football in 1941 was the story of the Chicago Bears, a fabulous aggregation of artists who swept through a divisional playoff and the championship contest to establish themselves as the greatest team ever assembled. After winning their championship with a 73 to 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in 1940, the Bears, assembled, owned and coached by George Halas, marched through 21 games with only one defeat, a 16 to 14 setback on November 2 suffered at the hands of the Green Bay Packers, who might rightfully have claimed to be the nation's finest unit had there been no Bears. The Bears defeated the Packers, 33 to 14, in the divisional playoff, which attracted 43,425 customers not included in the aforementioned attendance figures. The following week they defeated the New York Giants, eastern division winners, 37 to 9, in the league playoff, climaxing a season which began with a 37 to 13 triumph over the Chicago All-Stars before 98,200 in Soldiers' field. Greasy Neale, in his first year at the helm of the Philadelphia Eagles, turned in the outstanding coaching job, successfully and completely teaching a rookie squad the Bears' intricate T formation. He was followed closely by Bill Edwards, who leaped from secondary college football at Western Reserve to the major league and brought the Detroit Lions in third behind the Bears and Packers in the western division. George McAfee, of the Bears, was the back of the year, generally earning the acclaim of every qualified observer as the greatest ball carrier of all time. Marshall Goldberg of the Chicago Cardinals, was the most improved player of the year, reaching the peak of his career with a Cardinal team which could only win three games. Don Hutson, veteran Green Bay end, broke all scoring records, increased his amazing record for passes caught and climaxed his season by being voted the outstanding football player of the season, collegiate or professional. His teammate, Cecil Isbell, gave the greatest exhibition of passing in football history, completing at least one touchdown pass in each of the Packers' 12 games. Pug Manders, of Brooklyn, won the ground gaining championship, but Clark Hinkle of Green Bay shared the honors in this department by setting a new league all-time mark for ball carrying. The Bears with their unbelievable personnel, shattered eight team records and three game marks by setting a new standard for passing efficiency. New York's Giants returned to the championship class on the strength of a stout defense, bulwarked by seasoned veterans, and a greatly stepped up offense, provided by the outstanding group of rookies of the season. Brooklyn loomed as a powerful factor in the race by beating the Giants twice, but took lickings from less regarded opponents. Washington, which started well, bogged down under the burden of injuries to key backs. Philadelphia was exceedingly interesting, but not quite robust or experienced enough, and Pittsburgh, with its best personnel in years, was robbed by frequent changes of coaches. Cleveland, still suffering from a chronic ailment, a shortage of reserves, was riddled by the draft which took all its important rookies. Detroit, starting under a new coach, came fast at the end of the season. The Chicago Cardinals boasted their best team since 1935, but although they made it tough on everybody, they usually just managed to be nosed out in the breaks. All teams had one complaint in common. The Bears were in the league.

BEARS TIP ALL-STARS 35 TO 24 IN SAVAGE BATTLE, THREE HURT

JAN 5 (New York) - The mighty Chicago Bears, professional football champions for two straight year, throttled a win-crazy league All-Star eleven Sunday afternoon at the Polo Grounds, 35-24, in a rough and tough battle before a meager crowd of 17,725. It was a bruising melee from start to finish, the All-Stars seeking some sort of individual revenge for the treatment handed out by George Halas's giants to their clubs during the regular season. But a five touchdown barrage, three in the first half, nullified brilliant solo performances by Slingin' Sam Baugh, Perry Schwartz and numerous other satellites of the play-for-pay circuit. So rough was the fray that Don Hutson, all-league end from Green Bay, suffered a broken rib; Frank Filchock, Washington Redskins back, was nursing two broken ribs today, and Baugh was forced to endure four stitches in his jaw. The season's football finale, also the last game for many of the stars who are eligible for service in the United States armed forces, was played for the benefit of the Naval Relief Society, with 50 percent of the gross gate of $50,609 being turned over to the fund which aids all families of navy men lost on the battlefield. Wind, mud and snow marred the contest yesterday, with thousands preferring to stay home with the temperatures well below freezing. The Bears' second quarter drive in which they scored three touchdowns, typical of their parade to the league title, gave them a 21-3 advantage at the half but they needed every bit of it as the All-Stars struck back on the arm of Baugh. Baugh's heaves, one to Perry Schwartz of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the other to Bill Dewell of the Chicago Cardinals, gave the All-Stars two quick touchdowns in the third period. But when one of Baugh's aerials settled in Dewell's arm and Ward Cuff added the second of his three successful conversions, the Bears led only 21-17. The champions were not long, however, in showing why they are kings of football. Just before the period ended, Sid Luckman caught Ray McLean in payoff territory and Bob Snyder's conversion gave the Bears a 28-17 margin going into the final session. They kept right on traveling until Young Bussey passed to lanky Ken Kavanaugh midway of the final quarter for their fifth touchdown. The minutes were ticking away when Baugh again connected with Schwartz on the 6-yard line and the Dodger end wiggled across for the final score. The field conditions were far from favorable for play, and the fans shivered in the stands. The champions, rolling to 13 first downs, drove on the ground for 125 yards and through the air for 156 more. The All-Stars piled up 17 first downs, gained 94 yards rushing and 161 in the air, chiefly because of Baugh's deadly aim.

PACKERS WILL LOSE MCLAUGHLIN TO NAVY

JAN 10 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packer football management has received word from Lee McLaughlin, first year tackle of the squad this year that he had passed examinations for service with the U.S. Navy. His home is at Richmond, Va. He played college football at the University of Virginia. Another tackle, Charles Schultz, was rejected from army service because of high blood pressure.

VAN EVERY OF PACKERS ENLISTS IN AIR CORPS

JAN 15 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packer management received word today that Harold Van Every, star halfback on the local pro football club, had enlisted in the army air corps. He will report at Baker field in California Saturday.

EDDIE KOTAL IS NAMED ASSISTANT COACH OF PACKERS

JAN 17 (Green Bay) - Eddie Kotal, pepper-box halfback of the Green Bay Packers for the five seasons between 1925 and 1929, will return to Green Bay next fall as an assistant Packer coach. Announcement of Kotal's appointment was made today by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau. Negotiations covered a period of several weeks, and final agreement was reached after Kotal completed arrangements to leave Central State Teachers college at Stevens Point where he has been athletic director for 11 years. Kotal will direct his Packer efforts toward backfield development with special emphasis on the offense. His work will not affect the status of Assistant Coach Richard (Red) Smith, whose energies are concentrated on line play. They both will set under the direct supervision of Lambeau. Eddie is well remembered by Packer fans of 15 years ago. He wound up his playing career with the great team of 1929 - the ironman outfit that brought Green Bay its first National league championship. That season the Packers shut out the Chicago Bears three times, and Kotal was instrumental in each of the victories - especially the 25 to 0 win which clinched the title in the last game of the season...LAMBEAU PRAISES SPIRIT: Injuries kept the spirited spirit merchant out of the memorable clash with the Giants at New York that year. The Packers won, 20 to 6, and Eddie's role was strictly that of a sideline spectator. Nevertheless, in speaking of the occasion, Coach Lambeau has remarked: "Eddie was confined to the bench, but within these limits he 'gave out' as much as anybody on the squad. Eddie has the spirit it takes to win, and those about him became infected with much of the same quality." Kotal carried that same will to win into coaching. He left the Packers in 1930 and that fall returned to Lawrence college, his alms mater, to become head football coach. (Eddie was an all-around athletic star at Lawrence prior to joining the Packers in the fall of 1925.) At that time, athletics at Central State Teachers college were in the doldrums, and the athletic committee was shopping for an athletic director. The job was offered to Eddie after the close of Lawrence's football season, and the former Packer took over the reins at the Teachers college in December 1930...IMPRESSIVE COLLEGE RECORD: His record at Stevens Point has been highly impressive. In 1933, 1934 and 1936 his football teams were State Teachers conference champions. The 1933 team was undefeated, and tied only once. Always high in the conference standings, Kotal never engaged soft opponents for his non-conference games just to make the record look good. In recent year his foes outside the league have included such small college teams as DeKalb (Ill.) Normal, St. Norbert, Bradley Tech, Illinois Wesleyan and the Mankato Teachers, Minnesota conference champions. Kotal's appetite for victories extended onto the basketball court where the Pointers were conference winners four times under his tutelage. During the season of 1932-33, Central was undefeated in 18 starts. The Pointers' victims included the University of Wisconsin. Other pennants were won in 1934-35, with 17 victories and 2 defeats; 1935-36, when they were undefeated in 15 starts; and 1936-37, when 13 victories were gained and four games were lost...INTRODUCES BOXING, TRACK: The sports of boxing and track were introduced at Central by Kotal. Again the will to win predominated. Two marks made by his charges still are conference records, despite the bad weather that hampered track activity at Central in recent years. In his five years of Packer play Eddie made 10 touchdowns. In addition to being a fast breakaway runner on rushing plays, and a shifty man in an open field, he was a good forward passer and an excellent pass receiver. His playing weight was something over 170 pounds - but never much more than that. But in courage and determination he made up for what he lacked in stature and weight, and his playing days were marked by the spectacular. Never asking any quarter from huskier brutes, Eddie played without a headguard and a minimum of other pads. In respect to the latter, he streamlined his armor as much as possible to conserve his speed...HATES TO LOSE: Kotal hates to lose, but he does not find fault with his boys when things go wrong. "If things don't click the way I planned, I always figure that in some way I have been to blame. Perhaps the wrong man has been given a certain assignment or something was not made clear before the contest. I hate to lose, both for the kids and because I consider it a personal reflection upon my work," Eddie said in his last visit to Green Bay. "Besides, I like to win. When I reach the point where I don't care, I'll quit coaching." He added that he has no intention of quitting. Word from Stevens Point indicates how keenly the Teachers college feels its loss. The rise in athletics under Kotal was so pronounced that it stimulated the male enrollment at the school considerably. Nor was the increase a momentary boom. Once it rose with Eddie handling athletics, it remained up there. Kotal is married and the father of two children. He plans to move his family to Green Bay sometime next summer, even though he is on the summer school faculty at Central State. His work with the Packers will start Aug. 1.

SEEKS NAVY BERTH

JAN 20 (Green Bay) - Word was received here that Eddie Jankowski, former University of Wisconsin fullback and member of the Green Bay Packers, had applied for entrance in the U.S. Navy.

CECIL ISBELL ATTAINS PASSING CHAMPIONSHIP OF PAST SEASON

JAN 21 (Chicago) - The long, limber arm, which throughout his collegiate career had to be chained to his side to have it from injury, brought the forward passing title of the world to Cecil Isbell in 1941. Official NFL statistics revealed today give the lanky Green Bay Packer first place over Sammy Baugh of Washington, fellow Texan and defending champion. Baugh finished second, with Sid Luckman, the Chicago Bears' quarterback, third. Isbell led the league in passes attempted, passes completed, yards gained and touchdown passes, setting new records in the last two departments during a season which saw the aerial game reach a new high in professional football with 44.3 percent completions for 100 touchdowns. Sixty-five men, a record number, attempted passes during the 55 regularly scheduled games. Passes were completed by 42 men and 35 of these, another record total, tossed touchdown passes...TOUCHDOWN EVERY GAME: Isbell's amazing achievement of throwing at least one touchdown pass in every regularly scheduled game was unprecedented in league annals and his total of 15 for the season bettered by three the mark set by Baugh in 1940. Baugh connected for touchdowns on 10 attempts. He was followed closely by Luckman, who has nine touchdown passes. Only 11 of Isbell's 206 attempts were intercepted, but Baugh, who threw less passes, had 19 intercepted, as did Parker Hall of Cleveland. Isbell gained the championship on a record of 117 completions in 206 attempts for a total of 1,479 yards. His total gain surpassed by 112 yards the former record for one season, set by Baugh in 1940...A VETERAN'S PROVINCE: Further evidence that National league stardom is a veteran's province is revealed in the fact that only three rookies earned ratings within the first 15. Two of these were Chicago Cardinals - Ray Mallouf, of Southern Methodist, whose 80-yard pass to John Hall for a score against Green Bay on Oct. 10 was the longest completed effort of the season, and the casual John Clement, also of Southern Methodist. Mallouf wound up sixth with 48 passes completed in 96 attempts and Clement eights with 48 out of 100. Dean Adams, Brooklyn's promising triple threat back from the University of Washington, compiled a record of 12 out of 27 and two touchdowns to finish 11th. Among the leaders Luckman, operating from the Bears' famous T formation, had the best average, connecting with 68 of 119 attempts for a mark of .571. Isbell's average was .568 and Baugh's .549.

TWO PRO FOOTBALLERS ENLISTED BY TUNNEY

JAN 22 (Cleveland) - Two NFL players were among 65 men accepted as physical instructors during Lieutenant Commander Gene Tunney's two day stay here. The pro gridders were Steve Andrejco, former Ohio State football captain who played the last two seasons with the Washington Redskins, and Gus Zarnas, Ohio State guard recently with the Green Bay Packers.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

JAN 24 (Green Bay) - Despite the sacrifices that must be made because this country is at war, Coach Lambeau is

confident of fielding a strong Green Bay Packer team for next fall's campaign in the NFL. And this, you may be sure, is no task to be left for a rainy day. Some of last year's players will be available, doing their bit by paying taxes, buying bonds and contribution to the Red Cross. Others, however, will be in the armed forces. BOB ADKINS, back: Drafted by the army last October. He left before the season ended, but was permitted to play in several of the late games by getting weekend leave. CHARLES BROCK, back: Classified 3A, being married and the father of a son. He is operating a welding business in Green Bay. TONY CANADEO, back: Has received no classification so far, but expects 3A due to the dependency of his widowed mother and two younger brothers in Chicago. LARRY CRAIG, end: Has not heard anything from his draft board. He expects to be here for the 1942 season. Although he didn't say so in his letter, he is likely to be deferred as the operator of a farm. ED FRUTIG, end: Stationed at the Naval Reserve aviation base in Glenview, Ill., You can count him out. BUCKETS GOLDENBERG, guard: Classified 3A., being married and the father of a son. He operates an insurance and finance business in Green Bay, and has an interest in the Packer Playdium a bowling establishment, in Green Bay. DON HUTSON, end: Classified 3A, married and the father of a daughter. As a resigned reserve officer, however, his status can be considered doubtful. He is manager of the Packer Playdium, being associated in business with Goldenberg. EDDIE JANKOWSKI, back: Enlisted in the physical training branch of the arm. BILL JOHNSON, end: Enlisted in the naval air corps, but will not be called until Jan. 29 to report for training at the old Chamberlain field in Minneapolis. RUSS LETLOW, guard: Classified 3A. He is in the Milwaukee office of the Atlas Truck Lines at the present time. LEE MCLAUGHLIN, tackle: A naval reserve volunteer, and reported this week for the training course at the University of Northwestern. ERNIE PANNELL, tackle: Classified 3A, being married. He will return to Texas A. and M. for next , but has applied for an appointment by the navy as a physical education instructor. CHARLES SCHULTZ, tackle: Has a physical deferment, and expects to return next fall. BUFORD (BABY) RAY, tackle: Classified 3A, being married and the father of a son. He is still operating his liquor store down in Nashville. GEORGE SVENDSEN, center: Classified 3A, and will be back unless the navy takes him because of his experience in physical education. He will complete his work for his master's degree at Minnesota in March. HAL VAN EVERY, back: Enlisted in the naval air corps.

COACH LAMBEAU THINKS FOOTBALL PLAYERS SHOULD DO WELL IN WAR

JAN 24 (Wausau) - Football players should make good soldiers, because fundamentally football and war have many tactical maneuvers in common, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers told 60 Wausau High school athletes and more than 200 interested parents and friends here Friday evening. The occasion was the annual Victory banquet given by the Drug Store Coaches association for the high school players in all branches of athletics. Last year in Wisconsin Valley conference competition the Wausau teams won five out of a possible seven championships. The football team has carried off the title four out of the past five seasons. Coach Lambeau asserted that because of its value in training, activity in football should be expanded rather than curtailed during the war. He recalled a recent conversation with Grantland Rice, notable sports columnist and commentator, who suggested that while now from 2,000,000 to 2,500,00 men and boys are participating in the gridiron sport, that number should be doubled next fall. Speaking of the recent Packer season, the Green Bay mentor said that despite 10 victories and only one loss in the regular season, "we are not satisfied." "The final playoff defeat by the Bears spoiled it all," he declared. While he did not go into detail, Lambeau explained that a dozen psychological factors were among the reasons for the Packer loss. He added that if half of them were eliminated, the outcome might have been different. Nevertheless, he made it clear that he did not want to take anything away from the Bears. "We were off that day, and they were the better team," he stated. It was pointed out that other alert coaches have watched George Halas build for years toward the powerful machine that captured all gridiron honors last fall. Dwelling on the Halas monopoly of drafted players, Lambeau told his listeners that an attempt was made to curb the Bear manipulation four years ago at New York. A proposal was made then that the first two players selected by each team should have to play with that particular team if he participated in the league at all. Halas and the managements of the Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cardinal clubs stood pat in their opposition, and nothing was accomplished. However, Lambeau said, they realized their mistake in 1940 when the Bears rolled over the Redskins by 73 to 0 at Washington. On the following day the rule was unanimously adopted by the league. Using just three player as examples of how Halas has built the Bears, Lambeau pointed out that Sid Luckman was originally a Pittsburgh draftee, as was Norm Standlee, while George McAfee was selected by Philadelphia...PACKERS BUILDING, TOO: "But that is enough for 1941," he stated. "We, too, are building. Naturally, we will lose many men who are going into the armed forces, but we are combing the country for material and I can promise a representative Packer team for next fall. Outside of the 20 men on our league draft list, we have 60 fine college prospects in mind,. Of these we estimate that about 40 will be lost to the army and navy. But the remaining 20, plus the men on our list and our veterans, should give us a fine squad."

RED SMITH IS SUED FOR $1,107

JAN 25 (Madison) - Suit against Richard P. "Red" Smith, Green Bay, a Wisconsin sports figure, for $1,107.22 for materials and supplies he allegedly received while operating a filling station here from 1933 to 1935 was filed in circuit court today by the Pennsylvania Oil Co. Smith now is line coach of the Green Bay Packers and manager of the Green Bay Bluejays baseball team. He was assistant coach under Dr. Clarence Spears at the University of Wisconsin and also played with the Madison Blues baseball team.

LAMBEAU, TWO 'U' STARS CONFER HERE

JAN 29 (Madison) - Two University of Wisconsin football players, who completed their collegiate careers last fall, conferred with Coach E.L. "Curly" Lambeau of the Green Bay Packer at luncheon in the Loraine hotel this noon. They were Tom Farris, quarterback elected honorary captain at the end of the season, and Don Miller, who played both left and right halfback. Atty. Gerald Clifford, Green Bay, a director of the Packer corporation, also attended the conference. Farris was chosen by the Packers in the National Professional league draft, a system whereby professional teams gain exclusive rights to bargain for services of top-ranking college football stars.

BRUCE SMITH APPLIES FOR NAVY ENLISTMENT

FEB 3 (Faribault, MN) - Bruce Smith, University of Minnesota All-American football player and football's "Player of the Year", has applied for enlistment in the United States Navy. He was drafted last December by the Green Bay Packers. Smith has been granted a 15-day stay by his county draft board, to complete formalities of enlistment. He was in Chicago Monday making arrangements for his entrance into the service. Smith is to undergo an operation Wednesday on the knee which troubled him during the football season.

GREEN BAY SAVES HUTSON-GOLDBERG SECOND FLOOR BAR

FEB 4 (Green Bay) - Henceforth, the city council voted Tuesday night, citizens will be permitted to purchase liquor at a bar above street level. The council amended an ordinance prohibiting issuance of liquor licenses to such establishments following presentation by Don Hutson, Packer football star, of a petition with 1,000 signatures favoring the amendment. Civic groups opposed the change. The revised ordinance permits issuance of a liquor license only to that portion of the premise on street level, except in the case of bowling alleys having not less than five alleys on the second floor, hotels and clubs. Hutson's Packer Playdium, an $80,000 structure, has a bar and 10 bowling alleys on each of its two floors. Buckets Goldenberg, another Packer veteran is Hutson's partner.

DON HUTSON VOTED LEAGUE'S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

FEB 11 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson, the Green Bay Packers' sensational pass receiver, today was acknowledged officially as the NFL's most valuable player for 1941. The honor, which carries with it the Joe F. Carr trophy, was bestowed upon the veteran end by a committee of nine newspapermen. Hutson received six of the nine first place votes, according to George Strickler, the National league's director of public relations. Hutson became the fourth man to receive the trophy. Mel Hein, New York center, won the award in 1938. The next year Parker Hall of Cleveland, a rookie, was selected. IN 1940 Ace Parker of Brooklyn was named. Also gratifying to Green Bay fans was the recognition given Cecil Isbll, Hutson's batterymate and a star halfback in his own right. Isbell received two of the first place votes, while the ninth went to Sid Luckman, the dangerous quarterback of the Chicago Bears. Although he did not receive a first place vote, Danny Fortmann, the man who tackled the Bears into a championship in 1940, finished next to Hutson with 16 points on the basis of four points for each second place vote...OTHERS GIVEN VOTES: Other players receiving votes, although none of them for first places, were Pug Manders, Brooklyn fullback and the 1941 ground gaining champion; Norm Standlee, the Bears' rookie fullback; Frank Kinard, veteran Brooklyn tackle; and Sammy Baugh, Washington's passing ace and the league's punting champion. Hutson became a Green Bay hero on the very first play of his professional career, back in 1935. He startled and thrilled a City stadium crowd by catching an 87-yard pass from Arnold Herber to defeat the Chicago Bears, 7 to 0. Ever since then Hutson has been in the National league spotlight. Opposing coaches soon came to consider him so dangerous that they rarely attempted to cover him with less than two men. It is said that the Bears frequently have entered Green Bay games with 12 defenses designed expressly for Hutson. In the Western division playoff last December, they assigned three men to him. So Hal Van Every, Green Bay's right halfback, fell in behind the Bear trio chasing Hutson and took a pass for the touchdown which gave the Packers a seven-point lead in the early minutes of the game. Against Washington in the last game on Green Bay's regular schedule in 1941, Hutson gave an even more emphatic demonstration on his right to the Carr trophy...SCORES ANOTHER TRIUMPH: The Packers entered the second half beaten 17 to 0 in a game which meant the difference between a chance at the championship and being an also-ran. Hutson, although covered by two men, made miraculous catches of three passes from Isbell for another Packer triumph. Generally recognized as the most feared man in football, the fleet end has shattered more records than any other player past or present. Last year, in leading the Packers in a successful fight to prevent the Bears from running the league their own way, he broke five marks for scoring and pass receiving, bettered two which he already held, and tied three others. An 11th, which he set in 1939, went unchallenged. The five records broken in 1941 include: 1. Most touchdowns in any player's professional career - 57. 2. Most touchdowns in one season - 12. (This was later tied by George McAfee of the Bears.) 3. Most touchdowns on passes in one season - 10. 4. Most points in one season - 98. 5. Most points in an player's career - 389...TIES THREE RECORDS: Hutson tied these three records in 1941. 1. Most touchdowns in one game - 3, in the Washington game. (The best previous performances were by Hutson against Cleveland, once in 1937 and twice in 1938, and by Andy Farkas of Washington against Cleveland in 1938 and against Brooklyn in 1939.) 2. Most touchdown passes caught in one game - 3, in the Washington game. (Hutson turned the trick three times previously, once against Cleveland in 1937 and twice against Cleveland in 1938. Others to equal the mark were Joe Carter of Philadelphia, against Cincinnati in 1934; Bill Karr of the Bears, against Detroit in 1935; Les McDonald of the Bears, against the Cardinals in 1937; and Gaynell Tinsley of the Cardinals, against Washington in 1937.) 3. Most passes caught in one season - 58. (Don Looney of Philadelphia set the record in 1940. The next best performance was 45 passes by Hutson in 1940.)...IMPROVES TWO MARKS: The two records improved by Hutson in 1941 were: 1. Most passes caught in any player's career - increased to 262. 2. Most yards gained on passes - increased to 4,296. In addition, Hutson holds the record for most yards gained on passes in one season, set in 1939 when he received aerials for a total advance of 849 yards. This record was not threatened last season.

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FEB 11 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson - and this ought to startle you - almost didn't become a football player. That's something to think about today, just as we get the announcement that he has been voted the most valuable player in the NFL for the 1941 season. You see, Don played only basketball and baseball during his first three years in high school at Pine Bluff, Ark. He never gave football any real consideration, thinking he was too small for such a tough, bruising sport, and not caring much about the game, anyway. Three years went by. Young Don was about to return to high school as a senior, and as yet there was not even a hint that some day the sports fans of a great nation would become amazed at his gridiron achievements. But fate, ever a factor in man's destiny, smiled upon this youth. Across the street from the Hutson's home in Pine Bluff lived the Seawells. Bob Seawell (pronounced Soo-ell) was Don's buddy. And Bob was a star fullback on the Pine Bluff High school football team...BOB WON'T TAKE 'NO' FOR ANSWER: "Bob was a fellow who really loved football," Green Bay's sensational pass-clutching end told me. "He figured I should be playing, too, and he worked on me so hard all during the summer before my senior year that I finally gave in. Well, I reported that fall, more to satisfy Bob than anything else. I only weighed about a hundred and fifty pounds, and I never expected to amount to anything." Don soon discovered that football was everything that Bob Seawell, his buddy, claimed it was. About a few weeks he was as enthusiastic as any player on the squad. He played all that season, and earned a letter as a member of the varsity. By that time Hutson was willing enough, but he still was not on the road toward becoming a great football star. But fate, again in the person of Bob Seawell, smiled once more. The University of Alabama was on the hunt for gridiron material, and the scouts brought word from Pine Bluff that there was a likely halfback prospect in a husky, young fellow called Bob Seawell. No mention at all about the slight, thin-legged Don Hutson...'BAMA NOT INTERESTED IN HUTSON: "They came around to talk to Bob," Hutson related. "They seemed right anxious to have him, so he held off and said he wanted a little more time to make up his mind just where he was going to go to college. Finally Bob said he would go to Alabama if they took his chum Don Hutson, too. But they didn't want me, they only wanted Bob. They didn't think I would be much good on a big, tough team like they had at Alabama. Bob wouldn't give in, though. He said they'd have to take his buddy or they wouldn't get any Bob Seawell to play on their team. So finally they took me." The rest of the story as it concerns Hutson is well known, but what happened to Don's buddy? Well, Bob Seawell played football two years, and then quit school to take a job with the Pennsylvania state patrol. The football world has all but forgotten him, but Don Hutson hasn't. At Pine Bluff High school Don won letters four times in basketball and baseball. At Alabama he took up track in addition to football. As a trackman he did all right, too. His best time in the 100-yard dash was 9.7 seconds, and he sprinted the 220 in 21.3 seconds. Those thrilling dashes he has been making on the gridiron are partly the result of that training on the cinder path. Don played in the Rose Bowl game in 1934, scoring two touchdowns and greatly aiding Alabama to its 29 to 13 victory. It was there that Coach Curly Lambeau became really interested in the speedy end...KELLY, LAMBEAU IN BIDDING DUEL: The story of how Don came to Green Bay has been told before, but it's still interesting. Shipwreck Kelly, who ran the Brooklyn club in the National league, was after Don, too, and all that winter Don had Kelly and Lambeau bidding against each other. That was before the league had its draft rule, you remember. Don had promised Shipwreck that he would go to Brooklyn if he didn't get a better offer from some other club. Both kept the transcontinental wires burning that winter while one outbid the other. Don was spending the winter in California. Then one day Don got what he considered a reasonable offer from Lambeau. He immediately notified Shipwreck, but Don didn't hear from him so he signed Lambeau's papers. He no longer had the contract in the mail when Shipwreck arrived in person. He'd not bothered to wire or telephone, but had come in his plane instead - too late! Hutson gained two important items at the University of Alabama in addition to an education in football - a major in general business and a wife...BUSINESS TRAINING COMES HAND: The business training is coming in handy now, since Don has become manager of Green Bay's streamlined bowling establishment, Don Hutson's Packer Playdium. He knew he wouldn't be playing football forever, so he was dead serious about attending classes. It was not until he made a start in professional football that Don invaded the state of matrimony, but when he did it was with the attractive southern belle he met on the Alabama campus. She is a native of Fayette, Ala. Don declares he likes Green Bay and you can be certain he really means it. He has bought a home here and, southern drawl and all, has gone into business. What further proof could you want? He's philosophical about the life of an athlete. "I know I can't go right on playing; I've got to quit sometime. I'm not so young anymore. They talk about Buckets Goldenberg and Clarke Hinkle being veterans, but what about me? I've played pro ball for seven years, yet fans still seem to think I'm just beginning. Believe me, seven years is a long time in this business."...VOTED FIFTH GREATEST ATHLETE: Last Dec. 17 Hutson broke into the nation's sports headlines when he was voted the year's fifth greatest athlete in the annual Associated Press poll. Ahead of him in the voting were baseball players Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, boxer Joe Louis and golfer Craig Wood. Hutson's fifth place in that nationwide survey of leading personalities in all athletics was regarded as a great testimonial. He not only outranked all college football players, but he also became the first professional gridder to place anywhere near the top.

LAMBEAU LANDS HERNDON, NEBRASKA STAR

FEB 14 (Green Bay) - Clarence Herndon, 210-pound lineman from Nebraska, affixed his name to a Green Bay Packers contract this week to become the first football player signed by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau this year. Coach Lambeau contacted the Cornhusker star at Lincoln, Neb., while on his way to the west coast. Herndon stands one inch over six feet. Although he was a varsity tackle at Nebraska for three seasons, Lambeau has indicated that he probably will be used at guard here. Charles Brock, veteran Packer center who saw Herndon perform as a Nebraska high school star and later as a freshman at the state university, recommended him as an outstanding pro prospect...MARRIED FIVE YEARS: Because Herndon has been married for five years, his service classification is 3A, so it is unlikely that he will be called into the army at this time. Cited as one of the best Nebraska linemen during his sophomore and junior years, he was used only sparingly last season because of a shoulder injury. The injury is reported to be entirely mended now. In the 1941 Football Annual, Frederick Ware had this to say for him: "Lean, mean and 60-minute lasting is right tackle Clarence Herndon. As a sophomore he discovered that life was most joyous where the battling was fiercest, and he has made it a point to be there ever since. He begins his senior year with the finesse that makes good tackles great."...PLAYED AGAINST BROCK: Herndon remained out of college for three years after completing his high school course at Grand Island, Neb. While at Grand Island he played against Brock, who was then starring for Columbus, Neb., High. Both Herndon and Brock were named to the All-State interscholastic elevens, and while the latter went right on at Nebraska, Herndon married and worked in California for three year. He now is 25 years of age. Despite his injury, Herndon was picked on the all-Big Six team and several other honor squads after the completion of last season. He was not selected in the National league draft. On his trip, Coach Lambeau also conferred with William Green, Iowa back, and George Benson, Northwestern back. Both showed an interest in playing with the Packers, but at present are looking to naval aviation careers. Green, just 21, has received a deferment until graduation and reported that he looks forward to playing with Green Bay after the war. Benson expressed similar views...THIRD IN DRAFT: Green was third on the Packer draft list. He is six feet one, weighs 185 pounds, and was considered one of the best running fullbacks in the Western conference last fall. Benson, picked 17th by the Packer coach in the league draw, is the same height, three pounds heavier, and 22 years old. From Lincoln, Lambeau went to Tulsa, and then to Dallas, from where he drove on to Los Angeles. He will continue his scouting of prospective players for about a month going to New York for the National league meeting which is scheduled for late in March.

RAY FLAHERTY NAMED TO RULES COMMITTEE

FEB 19 (Chicago) - Ray Flaherty, coach of the Washington Redskins, today was named to the rules committee of the NFL by Commissioner Elmer Layden. Flaherty will serve with George Halas, Chicago Bears; Steve Owen, New York Giants; Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Packers, and Bert Bell, Pittsburgh Steelers, all holdovers.

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FEB 17 (Green Bay) - FARIS WOULD TURN TABLES ON BEARS: The Chicago Bears have been accused of resorting to all sorts of strategy in order to win football games, so Packer fans ought to be interested in the suggestion made to Coach Curly Lambeau by Tom Farris. "I've never been on a winning team," the University of Wisconsin back told Lambeau, "so maybe I'm a jinx. How about making a deal to get me on the Chicago Bears?" Chances are, however, that Farris will be with the Packers if he plays football at all. Ninth on Green Bay's league draft list, Farris was eager to reach terms when Lambeau talked to him recently. It's not likely to take much more talking before they get together. Farris is a native of Chicago. He is five feet, 11 inches tall, weighs 188 pounds, and is 21 years old. He's married, too, so it may be some time before Uncle Sam will want him for military service...LAMBEAU SEES GOOD PRO GRID YEAR: Although professional football will be pinched by the war effort, Packer coach Curly Lambeau feels certain that the National league will be in full operation next fall. Stopping off at Lincoln, Neb., on his trip south and west, Lambeau told Hollis Limprecht, a newspaper sports columnist: "The high percentage of married men among pro football players insures our continuing next fall. I should guess each club in the National league will lose from eight to ten men out of last year's squad of 33. The big difficulty comes in lining up new players. About 90 percent of the boys I contact are already signed up for a better team than pro football will ever turn out. However, many university graduates will have time for a season of pro ball before being called into service.

PACKERS GET STEVENS POINT STAR

FEB 21 (Green Bay) - Ted Fritsch, Stevens Point State Teachers college backfield star, has signed a contract to play with the Green Bay Packers next fall, it was announced by club officials today. Coach Curly Lambeau, who is on the west coast at the present time, contacted Fritsch for the first time several weeks ago. The Stevens Point gridder is the second to join the squad...LEARNED FROM KOTAL: Fritsch played basketball and baseball at Spencer, Wis., his hometown, but when he went to Stevens Point he accepted Coach Eddie Kotal's invitation to turn out for the football team. Kotal, who recently resigned as athletic director at the teachers college to become the Packer backfield coach, recommended Fritsch to Coach Lambeau. Standing five feet, 11 inches, and weighing 210 pounds, Fritsch is an ideal physical specimen. He played four years of varsity football at Stevens Point, alternating between fullback and halfback. He has ample speed, despite his weight, Kotal reported. The past two seasons Fritsch won recognition as the unanimous choice for fullback on the All-Teachers College conference eleven...AN EXCELLENT KICKER: Besides being a fine runner and blocker, Fritsch is an excellent kicker an a better passer than average. He did all the placekicking, including the kickoff, while at Stevens Point. In addition to playing football Fritsch became a star in basketball. He is playing his fourth year on the varsity this winter. During summer months he played baseball, and had tryouts with Wausau and Duluth of the Northern league as a catcher. Coach Kotal believes Fritsch will go good work with the Packers - if the army doesn't select him for a more important game. He turned 21 last October 31, and registered for the draft Monday. He is unmarried.

GREEN BAY PACKERS WON'T GET FLICK

FEB 24 (Green Bay) - Gene Flick, University of Minnesota football star, will not play with the Green Bay

Packers next fall, it was indicated today. Packer officials learned that Flick, who was their eighth choice in the NFL draft, has signed to coach football at Red Wing, Minn., high school. He played center for the Gophers.

RAY RIDDICK JOINS STAFF AT DARTMOUTH

FEB 27 (Hanover, NH) - Ray Riddick, formerly with the Green Bay Packers, has joined the Dartmouth college coaching staff, it was announced Thursday by Geormond (Tuss) McLaughery, head football coach of the Big Green. Riddick, who will take over the job of end coach at the start of spring practice, was graduated from Fordham university in 1940 and has been with the Green Bay professional team for the last two seasons.

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MAR 18 (Green Bay) - CURLY LAMBEAU WILL BE BACK SOON: Football fans and others who have noticed his absence can expect Coach Curly Lambeau back in town about April 1. He is breaking camp in California, where he has been for several weeks on business and pleasure, and will hustle along to New York City for the NFL meeting at the Hotel Commodore March 26 to 28. Being a member of the rules committee, he also will attend the session of that important body March 25. So along about the first of next month Curly will be home again. He'll plunge right back into his work of lining up players for the 1942 campaign, a task made more difficult than ever this year because of the war. That mid-winter trip is bound to show some results, of course, since he interviewed dozens of prospects. Curly has promised several times lately that he will have a strong team despite the war. The squad may not be quite as good as he might want it to be, but the others clubs - including the Chicago Bears - are in the same position...PACKER MEN ARE GOING OFF TO WAR: The Packers are supplying their full share of manpower for the war. One of the latest to go is Carl Mulleneaux, the Utah State end who did excellent work in the Green Bay line last fall. He left this week for service with the navy. Charles Schultz, veteran tackle from Minnesota, has applied for appointment as an ensign in the navy. It seemed that he might be deferred because of a leg injury, but he went after the appointment anyway, and it looks as if he will be inducted soon. Many fans saw great possibilities in Alex Urban last fall, but the rookie end from the University of South Carolina will be in a more vital game when the football season rolls around again. He is an army private at Fort Bragg, N.C., and wrote Coach Curly Lambeau that "I'm sorry I won't be back next season, but after all this mess and if I am able I would like to play football for you again." Because of his weight, which amounts to 220 pounds, Tom Greenfield, veteran Packer center, is in a mechanized unit at Fort Riley, Kan. He held a reserve lieutenant's commission in the cavalry, but his appointment to active duty in that branch was held up because of his heft. Pete Tinsley, who has been playing guard for the Packers, was tentatively rejected by the navy because of something being wrong with his hearing. He hopes, however, to have this deficiency correct by surgical or medical treatment.

PRO FOOTBALL OPENS DISCUSSION OF ITS WARTIME PROGRAM TODAY

MAR 25 (New York) - The owners and coaches of the NFL will meet tomorrow in a three day session to consider a wartime program for their sport. While there is no reason now to believe that professional football cannot continue this fall on the same high note with which the season ended in December when the Chicago Bears successfully defended their championship, this all-important gathering will play plans for the duration. In a prelude to the league's meetings, the rules committee was called to order this morning by George Halas, owner-coach of the Bears, to discuss changes in the playing code. In the afternoon the committee met with all coaches in discussion of further alteration of the rules that have pioneered advances in recent years plainly adopted for spectator appeal. The points of contention involved permission to the defensive team to run with fumbled lateraled passes that have struck the ground (the defense can run with a fumbled lateral caught in the air), and relaxation of the substitution rules. The arguments will be carried over to the owners' meeting, since all changed must be approved by them. Halas led the opposition against changing the fumbled lateral rule and he was supported by Greasy Neale, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, who also uses the "T" formation. In the coaches' meeting these men were supported by Bert Bell of Philadelphia and Curly Lambeau of Green Bay, who also are members of the rules committee. The other members of the rules committee in addition to Halas, Bell and Lambeau, are Steve Owen of New York and Ray Flaherty of Washington. Bell and Lambeau were against the rule on the theory it would discourage the offense and they also did not want to discourage use of the T formation, which they regards as a major contribution to professional football. The rules committee was unanimously against free substitution. It did agree that there could be some relaxation of the present rule which permits two players to return to the game in the last two minutes of the fourth period. Suggestions were to permit two men to return in any quarter and to permit all men to return once in each quarter. Opposition to these proposals was led by Jimmy Conzelman of the Chicago Cardinals who said that teams having strong passing combinations like Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson of Green Bay, or Sammy Baugh and the Redskin receivers would be given additional advantage. The committee and coaches were agreed the field judge shall hold the watch on limitation of 30 seconds for putting the ball into play. The umpire will continue to time the game, however. They will recommend to the owners that prizes, possibly the cost of a football, will be posted in all parks for return of balls kicked into the stands. This will conserve equipment during the emergency. The prize will be paid by the owners to a designated charity, but the retriever of the ball will not benefit. The owners will determine the player limit, which is now 33, but the rule committee will suggest that the number be reduced to 27 men. The change will be suggested for equality of competition during the emergency since some squads may not be able to reach the higher figure. In the future no ball game can end on a double foul. There must be one more play. The present rule, of course, calls for one more play when there is one foul. Artificial kicking toes will be ruled out. Box toes, or special contraptions worn throughout the game, will be permitted. The deliberate kickoff out of bounds, at the end of each half, designed to prevent the receiving team from participating in that play (example: Bears kicked off out of bounds against Cleveland with a second to play to prevent possible runback) will be prohibited. The rules committee also clarified the forward point of progress of a runner for position of the ball by adding the word "restrained" to rule that now reads "in the grasp of an opponent or so held as to be unable to advance". Dr. John Sutherland, coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, has had no word from the Navy in regard to his application for a commission. Sutherland said he had applied several months ago. Under the circumstances, he anticipated coaching Brooklyn this fall. Elmer Layden, commissioner of the league, arrived in New York this morning from Washington where he conferred yesterday with officials of the administration. He had no statement to make.

PLAYER LIMIT REDUCED FROM 33 TO 27 BY PROS

MAR 26 (New York) - Determined to adhere as closely as possible to a "business as usual" policy, the National Pro Football league opened its annual three day meeting here Thursday. The owners were given a head start toward the solution of one of their biggest problems by the coaches, who recommended at the rosters be cut from 33 to 27 men for the duration and that a player be permitted to return to the game once each quarter. The coaches felt that some teams might not be able to get a 33 man squad without difficulty. The 1942 schedule and an exhibition game policy also will be considered in the three day session. The regular schedule again will consist of 11 games. The roster reduction was the only league rule change of importance recommended by the coaches. One suggestion was thumbed down. That was that a defensive player be permitted to run with a fumbled backward pass. George Halas of the Chicago Bears was the strongest opponent of this proposed rule. He considered it a direct slap at his "T" formation. This was denied, but the coaches voted down the proposal anyway.

SCHEDULE OF 11 GAMES IS ADOPTED BY PROS

MAR 27 (New York) - NFL teams will play their regular 11 game schedules this fall, it was decided Thursday as the annual meeting of the circuit opened here. The club owners toyed with a proposal to have a nine game round robin but speedily vetoed it. The shorter schedule had been proposed by Bert Bell of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but when the time came to vote on it, Bell, the onetime Penn backfield ace, reversed his field and cast a negative ballot along with the nine other club executives. It had been pointed out that this dangerous time for experimentation. Adversaries of the move declared that although the weaker teams would benefit slightly from it, the league would suffer in the long run by decreased revenues from the strong teams that actually carry the burden. The magnates also considered the proposal of the coaches to cut the player limit to 27 men and permit moderately free substitutions. But after wrestling with that for awhile they decided to stick with the old system of 33 player squads and limited substitutions. Bell came through with another suggestion, to revise the draft rule. His complaint was that a weaker club which needed an outstanding center, for instance, would have to grab "name" backs in the first couple of rounds, while an overloaded club like the Bears could calmly pluck a Bulldog Turner of the hat. Bell wanted some rearrangement of the draft to help out the tailenders and everyone agreed with him. However, no steps were taken, since the entire draft setup with have to undergo changes. There was not the slightest stirring of trade winds. None of the coaches nor owners dares let go of what he was. Commissioner Elmer Layden pointed out that 77 men of the 353 who played in the league last year are in the service, to say nothing of 25 more who had played the season before and would have returned if they had not been called. Over a two year span the New York Giants have lost the most, 18 (as well as their secretary, Ensign Wellington T. Mara). Then come the Brooklyn Dodgers with 15, the Green Bay Packers with 13, Washington Redskins with 11, Detroit Lions with 10, Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers with 8 each, Philadelphia Eagles with 7 and the Cleveland Rams and Chicago Bears with 6 each. As for the 1941 squad members, the breakdown is as follows: Packers 13, Giants 12, Lions 10, Dodgers 8, Cardinals and Eagles 7 each, Bears and Steelers 6 each, Redskins 5 and Rams 3.

PACKERS TO PLAY IN DENVER

MAR 28 (New York) - The National Professional Football league owners rolled up their sleeves and went to work on next fall's schedule today, but after hours of arguing they decided nothing because of a controversy over a date for the season's second Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game. The only business completed, as a result, was a player sale sending halfback Mike Rodak from Detroit to Pittsburgh and an announcement by George P. Marshall that his Washington Redskins would meet the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game at Denver September 6. The tentative schedule presented to the owners had the second Packers-Bears title slated on December 6, instead of mid-season, as usual. This started the fireworks and they never stopped in a meeting that began before noon and went far in the night.

BOSSES DEBATE GRID SCHEDULE

MAR 28 (New York) - National Pro Football league club owners started the final day of their three day session Saturday with one of their toughest jobs ahead of them - approval of the 1942 schedule. A proposed schedule was offered to the bosses Friday night and the grumbling indicated Saturday's session might be on the stormy side. The owners Friday drew up a program of exhibition games calculated to enrich war charity funds by many thousands of dollars. They agreed to have their teams meet an "all-America" army team, to be chosen from the best men in that branch of service; to have each club try to schedule one home game with an outstanding service team or some other strong eleven, and to donate from receipts of all all-star games to various service relief funds. The club owners gave Layden a unanimous vote of confidence for his handling of league finances and commended him for his work in organizing the league into a unified group.

PACKERS MEET CHAMPION BEARS IN CHICAGO NOV. 15

MAR 30 (Green Bay) - Nine hours of argument at the NFL meeting in New York resulted in scheduling the second meeting of the season between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, traditional rivals of the West division, in Chicago Nov. 15. The original tentative date was the last day of the campaign, Dec. 6, but George Halas, owner-coach of the champion Bears, insisted on playing it earlier in the season. Halas expects the game to draw a $100,000 gate, and he didn't want to take a chance on the December weather. Each of the 10 teams in the league will play 11 games, as usual. A number of Green Bay games will be played at Milwaukee, but, except for those already set with Cleveland Oct. 18 and Pittsburgh Dec. 6, they will not be announced until after a meeting of the Packers' executive committee in the near future. A non-league game between the Washington Redskins and the Packers is scheduled Sept. 6 at Denver. There also will be a non-league game with Brooklyn Sept. 20, at a site to be determined later. Coach Lambeau is conferring with army relief officials for an exhibition contest with a service team Sept. 17...PLAY SERVICE TEAMS: Open dates on the schedule for all teams probably will be filled, the owners agreed, with games against army elevens. Navy and army officials appeared at the session and discussed contests to be played for service relief. Receipts above expenses of the annual pro bowl game between the champion and league All-Stars will go to army and navy relief. The Packers schedule calls for a home and home series with the other members of the Western division. The three games with Eastern division team include one at Green Bay, with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and two in the east, at New York and Philadelphia. Lambeau, the Packer coach, is expected back in Green Bay late tonight.

LAMBEAU DELAYED

MAR 31 (Green Bay) - His plane having been delayed in the flight to Chicago, Coach Curly Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers will not return from the National league meeting in New York City until this afternoon.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

APR 1 (Green Bay) - A LONG FACE? NOT COACH CURLY LAMBEAU!: Coach Curly Lambeau is back in town, and he does not look like a well-built undertaker. His hair has not turned white nor disappeared entirely through grief and worry, there are no deep wrinkles etching his brow, and he is not trying to hide from a pitying public's gaze. There's a war in progress, and I had not forgotten this fact in keeping an appointment with him Tuesday evening, a few hours after his return. Having concluded that these are going to be tough times for pro football coaches, as well as for certain others, I was prepared to face a man of gloom. But he was the same old Lambeau, cheerful and aggressive as ever. "Shucks," he declared, using a favorite cuss word, "what's there to get so gloomy about? Sure, there's a war on, but there's going to be pro football next fall, mighty good football, and the Packers are going to be right in there with them. And after another championship, too," he added. So I settled down in that big old chair he keeps in his office, and heard what happened the last few months - his trip west to the Pacific coast interviewing prospects for his football team, and his swing to the east coast for the NFL meeting in New York City last week...HE'S WELL SATISFIED WITH SCHEDULE: Pointing out that the league schedule gives the Packers five home games, some of which, as has been the policy, will be played in Milwaukee, Curly said that he is well satisfied with the general game setup. "In the previous years we never had less than six homes games on an 11-game schedule, but actually we had six coming only every other year. This year they wanted to cut us down, but I held out for five and sat tight until I got them." Curly must have had quite a fight getting those five games. At one time during the session it looked as if Green Bay would not get anything but the Chicago Bear game, the league moguls being afraid of the transportation situation for next fall. Curly had offers to play some of the games in Buffalo, and another in Akron. "But I wouldn't give in," said the old battler, the creator of five NFL championship teams. Lambeau was enthusiastic about the part professional football will play in winning the war. Each league team will have at least one game with a service squad for army or navy benefit. In addition, thousands of dollars will go to the federal government through the ten percent admission tax. The Packers will do even better than that. They will play a special game at Brooklyn with the Dodgers for navy relief. This contest was tentatively scheduled for Sept. 20, but Curly since had a wire from Dan Topping, the Brooklyn Dodger president, indicating that the date may have to be changed to Sept. 13, in order to obtain a park. "That game should being $35,000 to $50,000," Lambeau predicted. "We are also planning on a game with a service team Sept. 17."...PRO FOOTBALL HAS PART IN WAR EFFORT: "We were addressed by both army and navy officials at our meeting. They all want the pros to continue operating, since football not only helps to maintain civilian war and pays huge taxes, but, under the setup for next fall, will pay huge sums into the army and navy relief treasuries." This brought the coach to making the observation that "it's our duty to go to work; we've really got a big job in this war effort." Coaches will have to work harder than usual, he declared. He feels certain, however, that all clubs will be able to muster full rosters. "Shucks, all you need for the whole league is 330 men from the thousands of football players in the country." So get a smile on that long face, you Packer fans. If Lambeau isn't crying, why should you?

CHIEFS NOTES

APR 1 (Milwaukee) - The Milwaukee Chiefs of the

American Professional Football league are bankrupt and have debts of approximately $35,000. Included is $3,000 due Coach Tiny Cahoon. Stockholders tried to raise a portion of the money to meet the obligation to Cahoon by holding a bingo party.

GREEN BAY MAN PLAYED FOOTBALL IN NATION'S FIRST PRO GRID LOOP

APR 4 (Green Bay) - This story is about a Green Bay man who played professional football when the pro grid game was considered a disgrace. This particular gent watches most of the Green Bay Packer home games and never misses a College All-Star battle in Chicago. Only a few of his personal friends knew that he once lugged the pigskin for Akron, O., in the old Ohio State league shortly after the turn of the century. D.M. (Dave) Price, pattern shop foreman at the Northwest Engineering company, moved to Green Bay back in 1924, and holds the distinction of being the only Green Bay resident who ever played professional football in the country's first pro circuit. In fact, he was one of the first pro gridders. Price graudated from Cuyahoga, O., High school in 1900 and three years later played a season as fullback with Akron, which together with Canton, Massillon, Shelby, Toledo and (believe it or not) Buffalo, N.Y., made up the Ohio loop...BUFFALO PRETTY TOUGH: Price doesn't remember how Buffalo happened to be in the Ohio league, but he admits that Buffalo "happened to have a pretty good ball club." The league didn't have any rules, but just got together at the start of the season and worked out a schedule. Regardless, he added, it was known as a league. The old wheel was composed of all high school players because professional football was considered too low for a well-educated college or university man, Price recalled. "It was in 1904 when Willie Heston, the great Michigan boy, finally broke the college-professional ice. He accepted $500 from the Massillon club to play one game, and everybody in the league - not to mention the public - though it was downright terrible." Price went on to say that "things got worse" in 1905 when the Carlisle Indians decided to play Massillon at the close of the season. That really was hard for other colleges and universities to swallow because such a game had never been heard of...PAID $25 OR $30: The high school gridders in pro ball at that time were playing because they liked the game. There were no contracts, and players usually got $25 or $30 and expenses for the game. After Heston broke tradition, salaries went up, Price said. Price's football career was rather short, although it stretched over a period of seven years, including two years in Cuyahoga High, which is just across the river from Akron. He injured his knee late in the 1903 season with Akron, and during the next two years played with the Franklin A.C.'s of Cleveland and the Standard Steels of Butler, Pa. Continued injuries to his knee forced him to give up the game. Price's most bitter experience occurred in the Massillon-Akron game in 1903. Massillon had a tackle named Kirkhoff, and "he was about the fastest tackle in the game at that time. He weighed 255 pounds and got down under punts before the ends. The game was played on a muddy baseball field. Well, this Kirkhoff hit me on a line play and I thought I'd never got out of the mud. It was like getting hit by a tone of bricks."...WEARS SKULL CAP: About the most colorful player of 1903 was Doc Roehl, a Cleveland dentist now, who played with Massillon. Roehl always wore a skull cap into battle, and "every time he came up from a pile he always had that funny looking skull cap on his head. Nobody every did know how he manages to keep it on his head." Massillon's Tigers had only five points scored against them in five years, and they were regarded as the strongest team in the middle west. Tobin, a Franklin A.C. back, dented Massillon for its only points when he ran back a kickoff for a touchdown. The Columbus Panhandlers were the big drawing card in the early 1900's. This outfit had five members of the famous Nesser family of Columbus on its roster, and even better, the team included a father and son combination, Ted, Sr., and Ted, Jr...PLAYED AGAINST PACKERS: About 14 or 15 years several members of the Nesser family played with the Nesser Comets of Columbus against the Packers at Green Bay. Price went to work in Beaver Dam in 1912 and 1912 and returned to Akron just about the time Jim Thorpe got his start in professional football with Canton. "Thorpe was a wild man at the time. On one occasion, shortly after he had been signed to pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he set out on a billiard-ball throwing spree and wrecked numerous windows in Canton." Although Price considered Thorpe "really a great football players," the Green Bay man recalled that Fritz Pollard, a former Akron back who later joined the old Milwaukee Badgers, made Thorpe "look sick" at Milwaukee. "Pollard, about the cleverest Negro back I've ever seen, had big Jim diving all over the field that afternoon." Price played his football during the days when passing over the line of scrimmage was banned; a touchdown was counted as five points; a field goal counted only one, and five yards in three downs was called a first down...MANY LATERAL PASSES: "The boys threw a lot of lateral passes in the old days, and end-around plays, reverses and spinner were not uncommon. Most of the teams used line bucks nearly every other play and stressed blocking. Blocking, by the way, was gone with the knees," he said. The best team usually included a big, heavy line and a light backfield. As an example, it might be pointed out that Price weighed only 160 pounds despite the fact that he played fullback. Price is sold on the present type of football. "The old stuff was just brute strength, and it can't be compared with the exact precision of the modern game. The boys today are better fit physically than we were." Price calls the College All-Star game a spectacle that everybody should be. "I haven't missed one yet," he added. But national defense work at the Northwest Engineering plant may keep Price from a number of Packer games this fall, because he's due for a call to work at any time, weekdays or Sundays.

PACKERS BOTHERED BY PRESENT RATHER THAN FUTURE, COACH SAYS

APR 7 (Green Bay) - Members of the Kiwanis club at their regular luncheon meeting in the Hotel Northland Monday noon were assured by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau that despite the war situation, the Packers will operate in a normal manner next fall insofar as their home schedule is concerned. Some losses will be suffered in the way of players, it was admitted, but that problem is being met satisfactorily. The occasion was the initial showing here of the new Packer motion picture, "Football Thrills of 1941". After an informal discussion of last fall's highlights as depicted in the film, Coach Lambeau answered questions from the floor. "The principal difference between our policy this year and that of recent seasons is that while in the past we have built for the future, now our problem centers around the current system," the coach explained. "Due to the enlistment of several players, squads will not boast as many outstanding performers. Less bench work is in store for players ordinarily being groomed for the future. While we still promise to have a representative team on the field, the emergency makes it impossible to bank on the services of any one player from this season to the next."...ASKS ABOUT PROSPECTS: The policy change was outlined for the Kiwanians in answer to a question by Judge Henry Graass who asked about next fall's prospects. As an example of the old plan, Coach Lambeau pointed out that last season Green Bay had three good left ends in Don Hutson, Harry Jacunski and Alex Urban. Jacunski, he stated, was one of the best ends in football, but used sparingly because of Hutson's great value. Urban, only 20 years old and a league rookie, saw little service but was worth polishing for seasons to come. Urban already is in the army, Jacunski probably will return for much more work than he has had here previously, as reserve strength is certain to be weaker and substitutions more frequent. Rookies who may be signed for the position will be brought in with reference to what they may do in another year. "We all may be in the service for another year," the coach pointed out...TIRES AREN'T MENTIONED: Other questions were concerned with problems of coaching, play by individuals, schedule prospects and aspects of team play. With several guests present and a large group of interested spectators in the balcony, the club had one of its largest turnouts of the season. Nevertheless, no references were made to the rationing of tires (recently stressed by some sportswriters and radio commentators) as a threat to the Packer attendance. Interest in next fall's games was manifest on all sides. Curly cited the addition of Eddie Kotal to the coaching as a progressive step by the Packers. With few players available he said coaching problems everywhere in in the league will be greatly increased. Nevertheless, he struck an optimistic note on the player situation by announcing that despite all the men who have gone into or contemplate the service, 86 good prospects remain on the Packer list. "Of course," he added, "they are not all Hutsons and Isbells."...SAME TYPE SCHEDULE: The Kiwanians were told that they will have the same type of home schedule they had last year, allaying any doubts they might have had about the games at City stadium. Three official league games will be played here, and Milwaukee will have two. In addition, some exhibitions are being arranged. The motion pictures, produced by the Siltler company for the Packers, proved extremely interesting to club members. Details of play that the average fan will miss while watching an actual game are brought to light when the film is run. At several points particularly interesting plays were run over as Lambeau explained some of the action. With the picture to illustrate his words, the coach emphasized the great value of George McAfee to the Chicago Bears. It was shown how McAfee demonstrated fine spirit and courage in beating back while the Packers led 16 to 0 in the Green Bay-Bear game at Chicago Nov. 2, and what a powerful offensive weapon he was in all three Packer-Bruin meetings...CRAIG PROVES SPEEDY: A surprise to most of the fans present was the speed of Packer blocking back Larry Craig as proved pictorially. On one occasion while carrying the ball, Craig outran McAfee. On another, in a straight run down the field he caught McAfee from behind. Lambeau reported that Craig is second only to Hutson as a Packer speed merchant, but because he plays blocking back the fans usually miss on the field. Other outstanding bits of play in the film are Andy Uram's brilliant 91-yard return of a punt in the Brooklyn game, Tom Greenfield's exciting dash for a touchdown after taking a lateral pass in midfield (nullified by the officials), great pass catching and running by Hutson. Clarke Hinkle's hard charging, and some red hot performances by opposition stars including McAfee, Marshall Goldberg, Ace Parker and others.

SVENDSEN, EX-PACKER, ENLISTS IN NAVAL RESERVE

APR 13 (Green Bay) - George Svendsen, former center on the Green Bay Packers, will not play with the National league team next season. He has enlisted in the naval reserves.

NEVERMAN ASSAULTED BY MAYOR

APRIL 16 (Marinette) - Mayor Richard P. "Jab" Murray, former Green Bay Packers player who was defeated in the April 7 election by Arnold Schmitt, was fined for assault and batter Wednesday as the first defendant before a police judge whom he had recently appointed. The charge was brought by Paul F. Neverman, secretary of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Neverman charged that Murray met him downtown and without warning struck him in the face. The blow was ascribed to ill feeling over the election. Neverman is 60 year old, anything but athletic, and has been troubled by illness for the past few years. The fine was imposed by Police Judge Daniel Corry, who had been appointed to the bench recently by Murray. The mayor pleased nolo condendere (no contest) and was fined $5 and costs. Murray had been mayor of Marinette for 14 years.

PASVKAN TO JOIN NAVY AS AN ENSIGN

APR 19 (La Crosse) - Husky George Paskvan, who played with the Green Bay Packers last season after winning all Big Ten honors as a University of Wisconsin fullback in 1940, has enlisted in the Navy. He was to receive the rank of ensign upon reporting at the Annapolis naval training school April 20.

3 FORMER BADGERS PICKED BY NAVY

APR 20 (Washington) - Many well known athletes have been assigned by the Navy as instructors at the University of Iowa pre-flight training center. The list includes three former University of Wisconsin stars - Eddie Jankowski, Walter Mehl and Kenneth Bellile, all with the rank of ensign. Both Jankowski and Bellile played football for the Badgers, Jankowski continuing with the Green Bay Packers. Mehl won fame as a distance runner.

PACKERS BATTLE BROOKLYN IN NAVY BENEFIT AUG. 30

APR 24 (Green Bay) - A special football game for navy relief will be played between the Green Bay Packers and Brooklyn Dodgers in Ebbets field, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, it was announced by Packer coach Curly Lambeau here today. Dan Topping, owner of the Dodgers, is confident that the game will net at least $50,000 for the Naval Relief society, and he indicated that he would not be surprised if it brought close to $75,000. Arrangements for this game have been in the making for several weeks. Although it was not listed on the regular schedule, permission to play it was granted at the NFL session in New York City last month. Since the game had been planned for Brooklyn in September, baseball schedules interfered in attempts to obtain a park. Larry MacPhail, president and general manager of the Brooklyn baseball Dodgers, offered to juggle his schedule so that Ebbets field might be available Sept. 21, but Coach Lambeau was reluctant to accept this date before the Chicago Bear game here Sept. 27...PART IN WAR EFFORT: Lambeau is anxious

to have the Packers play as many benefit games as possible since he feels that it is necessary for professional football to take an important part in the war effort. He is making arrangements now for an army relief game against an unnamed team somewhere in Wisconsin Sept. 13, an open date on the Green Bay schedule. The Packers play their first of 11 regular league games when they meet the Bears here Sept. 27. The final game, barring playoff battles, has the Packers meeting Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Dec. 6.

ROHRIG IN AIR CORPS

MAY 4 (Omaha) - Private Herman Rohrig, all-Big Six back with Nebraska, has been ordered to report at Miami Beach, Fla., for physical training at the air corps officer candidate school, Seventh corps area army

headquarters announced. Rohrig played pro football with the Green Bay Packers last year.

FORMER PACKER WAR CASUALTY

MAY 15 (Green Bay) - Jim Lawrence, former halfback of the Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals and Washington Redskins, has been reported killed in the battle of Java. He was a naval aviator, and is believed to be professional football's first war casualty. A former Texas Christian star and teammate of Sammy Baugh, Lawrence played on the same Chicago All-Star squad as Packer Don Hutson in 1935. His best years of professional football were the four seasons following his graduation with the Cardinals, where he was both wingback and tailback. In 1939 he was traded to the Washington Redskins, and in October of the same season he came to Green Bay, where he stayed until the early part of the 1940 season.

PACKERS MAY CARD GAME WITH 'SKINS

MAY 16 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers expect to book a football game with the Washington Redskins at Milwaukee September 6 and with a service team Sept. 13. They open the National league season at home Sept. 27 against the Chicago Bears.

HINKLE'S DRAFT STATUS NOW 1-A

MAY 20 (Neenah) - The draft status of Clarke Hinkle, ace fullback with the Green Bay Packers, has been changed to 1-A, it was learned here today. Hinkle, who has spent 10 years with the Packers, formerly held a 3-A classification.

HINKLE IS LIEUTENANT IN U.S. COAST GUARD

MAY 23 (Green Bay) - Clarke Hinkle, star fullback of the Green Bay Packers during the past seven seasons, has been sworn into the United States Coast Guard as a lieutenant, according to an announcement from the Chicago office today. No details were available, but it was believed that Hinkle will be assigned to physical training duties. He recently was reclassified from 3-A to 1-A, by his selective service board here, but he applied for the coast guard commission instead of waiting for army induction. Hinkle is the 112th man from the 1941 NFL roster to enter some branch of the armed services. Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau was out of the city today and could not be reached for comment, but football fans have come to regard Hinkle as one of the outstanding players in the entire circuit. Hinkle was the league's leading field goal kicker, and in 1941 he was named all-league fullback for the fourth time. He previously won the honor in 1936, 1937 and 1938...STAR AT BUCKNELL: The veteran fullback was a star at Bucknell university, where in his last year he scored 128 points to make him the nation's leading point-getter. During his years with the Packers, he established himself as an all-around fullback - line smasher, distance runner, passer, punter, placekicker, blocker and powerful defense man. During the off-seasons, Hinkle was employed at a Neenah paper mill. He is a native of Toronto, O., where he was born April 10, 1910.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

MAY 26 (Green Bay) - E.A. Spachmann won't be standing behind the wicket or opening the mail when you place your order for tickets to the Packer football games next fall. Spike, a permanent fixture of the Packers since they started playing in 1919, is doing his bit to win the war by working in the engineering department of the Manitowoc shipyards. While Spike is helping to turn out subs at Manitowoc, Ralph C. Smith will take over in the Legion building. Smith has been Spike's understudy for several years now, and will do excellent work, but that isn't saying Spike won't be missed...ONE OF OLDEST OF PACKER VETERANS: Next to Coach Curly Lambeau and George W. Calhoun, the secretary and publicity director for many years, Spike has been identified with the Packers longer than any other man. He saw the ticket business grow from a $10 collection on a Sunday afternoon to a turnover of many thousands of dollars. In 1939, when the Packers trimmed the New York Giants by 27 to 0 in Milwaukee for the National league championship, Spike handled approximately $80,000. Spike was roped in to the Packer organization by Calhoun back in 1919. He was working at the Oneida Truck company at the time, and Cal figured he had enough spare time to lend the newly-organized Packers a hand once in awhile. Spike always has found it easier to accept than to refuse responsibility, so he promised Cal he'd help. That first year the Packers swept through a schedule of 11 games with only one defeat. Spike's job at the games was to pass the hat, giving a ribbon to every fan who made a contribution. The second season the crowds ran up to a thousand a Sunday, and tickets were sold for the first time. Games still were played on the field where East High now stands. For the next several years the field was at Hagemeister park, but in 1925 they moved to their present location. "We thought the new field was pretty slick," Spike recalls. "The grandstand held 2,240 seats. There was a wire fence around the whole field, and a strip of canvas was strung up on the day of a game to keep chiselers from seeing it for nothing." Back in 1920, when tickets were sold for the first time, they provided Spike with a one-man booth. It was a flimsy affair, only about 10 by 15 feet in size, and some of the more husky fans got a great deal of fun pushing it around. In 1925, when the present field was opened, a booth of four windows was built. Spike has had his share of trouble with gate crashers. He recalled how a dignified councilman was caught climbing over the fence for one of the early games, and persuaded to but a ticket...OFFICE IN CABINET: At first there were no advance ticket sales. Later requests were filled in the Press-Gazette building during evening hours, and Director Spachmann carried his office around in a wooden cabinet. Right about that time he began to appreciate just what handling tickets meant. A few seasons later the Packer ticket office moved over to the Columbus club, and Spachmann found himself putting in more hours than ever. In the early 1930s, the office was in the old Brown County Bank building. After a year there, it was moved over to the Legion building, its present location. That old four-window booth erected in 1925 was stormed more than once, and Spike remembers particularly one game with the Chicago Bears. All of the regular tickets were sold, but a large crowd of disappointed fans remained standing around, hoping that a miracle would happen. It did. Shortly before game time Spike produced a thousand standing room tickets, giving 250 to the attendant at each window. The windows were only about 14 inches square, but as soon as the announcement was made a dozen or more hands appeared in each. At the same time there was a shock like an earthquake, and Spike said afterwards that he feared the whole booth would go over. From the one-man booth the ticket business has grown to where a crew of 15 is employed to handle the Sunday crowds. Spike has sold tickets to fans in nearly every state in the union. During the past season tickets were mailed as far north as Sault Ste. Marie, and west as far as St. Paul. One fan in Kentucky ordered tickets for the Bear game, saying that he was planning a vacation in order to include the date...HANDLES AGENCIES: Spachmann has been in charge of the ticket agencies scattered throughout the state. The first outside agencies were in Manitowoc, Appleton and Sturgeon Bay, and the number grew as high as 42 one year. Since then they have settled down to about 30 agencies, all staffed by live-wire agents. Spike estimates that advance sales here and the turnover at the gate before game time account for about a third of the attendance. Another third is handled by mail, and the rest by the agencies. The season ticket sale once was considered good if 150 fans laid money on the line; now it amounts to about 3,000. He'll miss his work next fall, and even now he's planning to return as soon as the war is over.

BUFFALO INDIANS GET CLAIM ON CHIEFS

MAY 26 (Milwaukee) - The Buffalo Indians corporation, operator of a football team in the American pro league, yesterday obtained a default judgment of $1,636 in circuit court against the Milwaukee County Athletic Association, owner of the Milwaukee Chiefs. The complaint claimed that amount, including costs of the action, represented the unpaid portion of a guarantee for a football game here last Thanksgiving.

16 PACKERS JOIN COLORS

MAY 29 (Green Bay) - The armed forces of the United States already have claimed 16 of the 33 players on the Green Bay Packers' roster last fall, according to Coach Curly Lambeau.

JOE KRIVONAK SIGNS GREEN BAY CONTRACT

JUN 2 (Green Bay) - Joe Krivonak, giant University of South Carolina guard and tackle, has affixed his name to a Green Bay Packer contract for the 1942 season, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau announced today. Krivonak stands 6 feet 2 inches, and weighs 238 pounds, which puts him right in the class with the traditional Green Bay lineman. Lambeau calls him the "rugged, rough type" and said he has been highly recommended by Rex Enright. He was fourth on the draft list. Present indications are that Krivonak will not be called for service with the armed forces before 1943, Lambeau stated...THIRD TO BE SIGNED: Krivonak is the third to be signed by Lambeau for the 1942 squad. Krivonak, incidentally, is from the same school that graduated Packer quarterback Larry Craig. Lambeau admitted that it's "slim pickings" for National league teams this year, with so many potential professional gridders either in the armed forces or working in defense industries...LINING UP PROSPECTS: "So far we haven't made a big effort to sign players, since we through it wiser to await developments," Lambeau explained. "Instead, we concentrated our efforts on lining up as many prospects as possible in addition to those obtained in the National league draft." The Packer coach said that at one time the list of prospects numbered over 300; now it is down to 57. "I am sure of having a good first team, but the second team will be somewhat doubtful and the third string definitely will not be as good as usual."

GOPHER GRID STAR WON'T BECOME PRO

JUN 5 (Minneapolis) - Warren Plunkett, quarterback on the national championship University of Minnesota football team, said today he had rejected an offer from the Cleveland Rams and would pay another season at Minnesota. Friends of Plunkett at Austin, Minn., his hometown, had reported that he had signed a contract with the Cleveland club. Plunkett's eligibility had been questioned because he played in one game during his sophomore year, but Coach George Hauser said he would be available for another year of play under a new Big 10 conference ruling. "I'll be back at Minnesota this fall," Plunkett said. Friends of the youth at Austin said he also had been offered a contract for next season by the Green Bay Packers.

LAMBEAU SIGNS TWO GOPHERS FOR PACKERS

JUN 6 (Minneapolis) - Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau announced here today that he has obtained the signed contracts of two former University of Minnesota gridiron stars for the Green Bay Packer eleven next fall. Those signed are Fred Vant Hull, tackle, and Earl (Swede) Ohlgren, an end. Lambeau said that he now has five men under contract. Both Minnesota men have been out of school for some time, but are in excellent physical shape. Both have dependents and are not likely to be called for military service before the close of the season. Vant Hull, 23 years old, played on the Gopher varsity elevens of 1939 and 1940. He is six feet tall, weighs 230 pounds, is married and has a family. Hal Van Every, Minnesota back who played with the Packers the last two seasons, recommended him highly to the Green Bay mentor...PLAYED WITH CHIEFS: Ohlgren played on the Minnesota elevens of 1937, 1938 and 1939. Twenty-four years of age, he is married and expects to have an heir in the near future. He stands 6 feet 2 inches, and weighs 210 pounds. For two years he was employed in Milwaukee, playing with the Milwaukee Chiefs during the football season. He was considered the best end in the entire American league. Lambeau expressed pleasure at the signing of the two Gophers, declaring that they will fit nicely into the Packer scheme. He will remain here over the weekend, interviewing additional prospects.

PACKERS DICKER WITH ARMY ALL-STARS

JUN 6 (Green Bay) - Attempts by the Packers to play an Army All-Star football game next September have resulted in almost as many complications as trying to buy a new tire. At it looks now, the game will played Sunday, Sept. 13, as originally scheduled, probably at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee. Everything was pretty well set until that ban on night baseball on the eastern seaboard a couple of weeks ago. The same order would apply to football, too, preventing the New York Giants from playing the Army All-Stars the night of Sept. 9. Attempts were made by the Giants to change their game to Saturday, Sept. 12, but that would interfere with Green Bay's game the following afternoon. Further negotiations with the War department have resulted in the New York game being set tentatively for Saturday, Sept. 5, leaving the way clear for the date with the Packers eight days later. The Packers needn't think they can take that game in stride, because the army gridders should have a powerful outfit. Such outstanding stars are Tom Harmon and Ken Kavanaugh may be in the lineup. Then, too, the Packers may bump up against some of their former teammates, men such as Herman Rohrig and Tom Greenfield, who are in the army now. Speaking of night sports events, though - engineers are working on something that may solve the lighting problem. Coach Curly Lambeau of the Packers has learned that experiments are being made with a hood or cap over the lights that would prevent lighting up the sky but sill permit games to be played.

FARRIS ENLISTS

JUN 9 (Milwaukee) - Thomas G. Farris, University of Wisconsin football quarterback for three years and a June graduate, will report for duty in the U.S. Coast Guard June 16, according to recruiting officers here. Farris will be used in the Coast Guard's physical education program. Farris was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

PACKERS OPEN DRIVE FOR SALE OF SEASON TICKETS

JUN 10 (Green Bay) - Green Bay football fans were invited today to place their orders for season tickets to the three home games that will be played by the NFL gridders next fall. Approximately 8,000 letters were sent out to prospective purchasers, most of them being fans who bought tickets in past seasons, according to Ralph C. Smith, director of sales. Smith also invited persons not on the mailing list to place their orders promptly. Orders may be made in writing or wiring Smith in care of the Green Bay Packers, Inc., or by calling at the ticket office in the Legion building. The Packers open their home season by renewing the traditional feud with the Chicago Bears Sept. 27. The Chicago Cardinals will appear at City stadium Nov. 1, and the Cleveland Rams Oct. 18...FANS SAVE MONEY: A substantial saving is made possible by the purchase of a season ticket. The highest priced seats are in Sections E-F-O-P, and tickets to the three games would cost $9.90 if purchased separately. A season ticket, however, sells for $8.25, resulting in a saving of $1.65. Fans may save $2.20 by buying seats in most of the other sections. Season tickets for Sections D-G-M-Q are $6.60; in Sections C-H-J-K-L-R, 44.95; in Sections A-B-S, $3.30. Season passes in the remaining sections also are $3.30, with the saving somewhat less...ENJOY SAME SEATS: Although Smith stresses the saving in money, he also points out other advantages in buying season tickets. Fans have the same seats for each game, and they do not have the trouble of buying a ticket three times. The Chicago Bear game is usually a sellout, but season ticket holders never have to worry about getting to see the battle. Smith said that those who are unable to spare enough cash to pay for their tickets now may make arrangements to make partial payments at regular intervals. All the Packers ask is that 10 percent be deposited as a down payment.

PACKER ELEVEN PLAYS ARMY TEAM SEPT. 13

JUN 11 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers will battle a United State Army all-star football team on a Milwaukee gridiron Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13, it was announced here today by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau. Arrangements for the game have been approved by officials in Washington, Lambeau said. It will be played either at Marquette stadium or State Fair park. "This team of all-stars, chosen from the cream of the nation's gridiron stars now in the army, will be one of the strongest and most colorful ever played by the Packers," Lambeau declared. "Meeting a team like that so early in the season means that we will have to revise our training plans," the Packer mentor added. "It looks now that we'll issue the call for opening practice for Aug. 8, a full week earlier than we had anticipated."...OTHER GAMES PLANNED: According to the army public relations office, the all-stars, consisting of two squads, will have a whirlwind six weeks' campaign against teams of the NFL. Six games, including the one with the Green Bay gridders, have been scheduled. Besides playing the Packers in Milwaukee, the army all-stars will face National league teams at Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York, Boston and Brooklyn. In addition, there may be five or six other games, including one at Denver. Entire proceeds from all but one of the all-star contests scheduled thus far will go to the Army Emergency Relief Fund...EASTERN, WESTERN TEAMS: One of the army tams will be known as the "Eastern Army All-Stars", the other as the "Western Army All-Stars", the latter probably making its headquarters in the vicinity of Chicago. It is the western team that will meet the Packers. There will be no distinction between amateurs and professionals on the army teams. College stars who entered the service fresh from the campus will play alongside veteran professionals. The army has already compiled a list of 1,500 eligibles for the two 30-man squads. The coaches, who have not yet been selection, will choose their own training sites. The western squad, the one that is to play the Packers Sept. 13, will meet the Washington Redskins at Los Angeles Aug. 28...MARSHALL IS CHAIRMAN: Lambeau said that George P. Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins, is chairman of the NFL's committee on arrangements. Most of the details regarding the Milwaukee game have not yet been worked out, but Lambeau believed that Green Bay fans would be given an opportunity to purchase choice seats. The Green Bay coach has five players signed for the 1942 season, and expects to close several pending contracts within a few days.

FLORIDA GUARD SIGNED TO GREEN BAY TEAM

JUN 12 (Green Bay) - Tony Cianci, powerful and rugged University of Florida guard, has been signed to play with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL campaign next fall, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau announced today. Cianci is the sixth man to get a contract to try out for the 1942 season, and Lambeau believes he has the makings of a great lineman under the Packer system. "His record at school qualifies him for a position in the professional ranks," Lambeau declared. "He is the tough, hard-fighting type of youth that coaches and the fans like." Cianci comes from Conshakocken, Pa., right in the heart of the mining section. Athletes from that part of the country are traditionally rugged, and Cianci proved it at the University of Florida...WILL FINISH SCHOOL: The latest Packer recruit is 22 years old, weighs 210 pounds, and is five feet, 10 1/2 inches in height. He will finish school this summer, and does not expect to be called for military service before the close of the football season. Cianci was highly recommended to Lambeau by Tom Lieb, Florida mentor who formerly was line coach at Notre Dame and the University of Wisconsin. Richard (Red) Smith, Packer line coach, looked him over when he was in Florida last winter with the Milwaukee Brewer baseball team, and also filed a favorable report.

BLOOD IN ARMY

JUN 19 (Ft. Sheridan, IL) - Johnny Blood, who played professional football for 17 years, including several years with the Green Bay Packers, has enlisted in the Army and is in training here.

JOHN STONEBRAKER SIGNED BY LAMBEAU

JUN 20 (Green Bay) - Signing of John Stonebraker, rugged right end from the University of Southern California, to the Green Bay Packer squad for 1942 was announced today by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau. The Packer mentor received Stonebraker's signed contract in the mail this morning, and promptly erased one of the major worries from his mind. Lambeau has lost all of his right ends from last season, and has found it slim pickings in the search for replacements. Stonebraker, a resident of West Los Angeles, comes highly recommended, and Lambeau himself was much impressed when he sized him up last February. He is expected to report here Aug. 8 when the Packers begin training for the Western Army All-Stars in Milwaukee Sept. 13. Unfortunately for his own and USC's gridiron glory, Stonebraker found a job and did not return to school for his senior year. He played on the USC varsity during his sophomore and junior years, in 1938 and 1939...JONES PRAISES HIM: Howard Jones, USC coach, regretted the loss of his big end in 1940, and he told Lambeau that there would have been no question of his having won All-American honors if he had stayed. Jones believes that Stonebraker will fit nicely in the Packer system. Ernie Smith, former Packer tackle, lives only a short distance from Stonebraker's home in West Los Angeles, and also urged Lambeau to get the big man under contract. Stonebraker has the right dimensions and other physical characteristics required of linemen. He is six feet, two inches in height, and weighs 218 pounds. Married, and the father of a young son, Stonebraker is not likely to be called for military service this year, Lambeau believes...SEVENTH MAN SIGNED: Stonebraker is the seventh man to be signed by Lambeau for the 1942 season. He stated that he was sending contract forms today to all of the 1941 veterans still available. He also is to have a conference next week with Bob Ingalls, the Michigan center who played 60 minutes of football in the East-West game at New Orleans last season. Rights to Ingalls were obtained by Lambeau at the annual draft meeting last fall.

PETE TINSLEY, PACKER STAR, GETS MARRIED

JUN 23 (Dubuque) - Pete Tinsley of the Green Bay Packers Sunday married Bernie Dausey, also of Green Bay. The ceremony was performed by Justice Michael Hogan, Jr. Joe Laws, Tinsley's teammate, and Miss Ione Herman attended the couple.

LETLOW, TINSLEY SIGN FOR 1942 PACKER CAMPAIGN

JUN 23 (Green Bay) - Green Bay Packer stock took another sharp rise today with the announcement by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau that guards Russel Letlow and Pete Tinsley have signed their contracts for the 1942 season. Letlow and Tinsley are the first veterans of the 1941 squad to return for another campaign in the NFL. Lambeau, who sent contract forms last week to all of the experienced men still available, expects to complete negotiations with several more of them within a few days. The Green Bay mentor expressed a great deal of satisfaction at these latest additions to the Packer roster, which now numbers nine men. Both have the experience as well as the ability to carry out their assignments in the line against any team. Letlow is 20 pounds lighter than he was at the same period a year ago, and is in excellent physical condition. His playing weight last season was 220 pounds. He is six feet in height, and has all the rugged, speedy characteristics required of a lineman under the Lambeau system of play. "I am especially pleased with Letlow's grand attitude," Lambeau declared. "He was injured early last season and wasn't much use to us during the early part of the campaign, but he held on and turned out to be one of the best guards in the league." This will be Letlow's seventh season with the Green Bay eleven. At the present time he is employed in Milwaukee. He is 27 years old. Letlow, whose first name is Williard, made the all-professional team in 1938, and the year before that he was placed on the second honor team. He received honorable mention several times since. The big guard came to Green Bay relatively unknown from San Francisco university, having attracted Lambeau's attention in the East-West game of 1936. It didn't take him long to establish himself as a lineman with great possibilities, however...TINSLEY IS MARRIED: Tinsley was married Saturday, and will continue to make his home in Green Bay. Lambeau believes he should have a highly successful 1942 season, his fifth with the Packers. In the Bear game at Chicago last year, which the Packers won by 16 to 14, Tinsley turned in as good a game as a guard has ever played, Lambeau asserted. Although only five feet, eight inches in height, Tinsley hold his own with anyone on the field. He weighs around 200 pounds, and has an extremely solid and rugged build. Tinsley came from the University of Georgia, where he played every backfield position as well as guard and end during his three varsity years. In college he was selected on several southern all-star teams.

CENTER CHARLES BROCK RETURNS TO GREEN BAY SQUAD

JUN 29 (Green Bay) - Center Charley Brock today became the third veteran and the tenth player to sign a Green Bay Packer contract for the 1942 season, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau announced today. Lambeau, who is tackling a major task in assembling a strong football squad in the face of war conditions, expressed unhesitating pleasure at getting Brock's signature on the contract. He added, too, that he expects to close negotiations with several more players within a few days. Brock is married and has a child, so Uncle Sam is not likely to want him at least until after the NFL completes another season. He is a resident of Green Bay, and recently went into business as a service station operator on Main street, just a few blocks from City stadium. Brock, a cousin of Lou Brock, a back on the Packer team for two seasons, ranks as the outstanding pass defense center in the league. Lambeau confidently expects him to be the all-league choice for center this season, pointing out that he has improved consistently and is in excellent physical condition...THREE YEAR VETERAN: Last season was Brock's third with the Packers. He had three great years at the University of Nebraska, winning All-America honors in his senior year and playing on the Chicago All-Star team of 1939. Brock fit into the Packer system right from the start. He has a knack of our-guessing an opponent under fire, and has the physique required of a gridder who elects to perform the strenuous tasks required of a center. Brock is six feet, one inch tall, and usually weighs about 205 pounds. He is 26 years old.

ERNIE PANNELL SIGNS CONTRACT TO PLAY WITH PACKERS

JUL 2 (Green Bay) - Veteran Ernie Pannell has joined the United States Naval Reserve, but that is not expected to interfere with his playing on the Green Bay Packer team next fall, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau said today in announcing that the veteran tackle has signed a contract for the 1942 season. Pannell is to do his naval training in Chicago, but all classes have been filled and he has been placed on a waiting list. According to Lambeau's information, the big lineman is not likely to be called until after the close of the NFL season. Coach Lambeau has been worried about the left tackle position, and is extremely pleased that Pannell will be back. "Ernie should be one of the best tackles in the league next fall," the Packer coach declared. Pannell made a great record at tackle on the Texas A. and M. eleven, and was ranked as the best man at his position in the Southwest Conference. He was No. 13 on the Packer draft list of 1940, and was selected for the starting lineup on the 1941 Chicago All-Star team....LIVES IN TEXAS: Twenty-five years old, Pannell stands six feet, two inches in height, and weighs about 220 pounds. His hometown is Waco. Tex. Another veteran tackle, Buford (Baby) Ray has not yet signed, but Lambeau declared that "I'm sure he will be back...."

FORDHAM LINEMAN ON PACKER TEAM ROSTER

JUL 6 (Green Bay) - Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau today announced that Paul Berezney, Fordham tackle who has had professional experience with the Kenosha Cardinals, has signed a contract with the Green Bay Packers for the 1942 season. Berezney was a teammate of Harry Jacunski, Packer end the last three years, while at Fordham. Although highly recommended to Lambeau by his coach, James Crowley, Berezney elected to continue his studies at the Marquette medical school following his graduation. Since practice was required only on Saturdays, Berezney kept in condition by playing football with the Kenosha eleven. Now, after several interviews with Lambeau, he has finally decided to come to Green Bay this fall, and will return to the medical school after the football season. Johnny Blood, former Packer halfback who coached the Kenosha team the last several seasons, told Lambeau that Berezney was the only member of the entire Cardinal team qualified to play National league football. Berezney is the 12th player to sign a Packer contract for 1942. Rumors of an automobile collision involving Lambeau's car and that of Mrs. Irene Simmons, Thiensville, when Lambeau was returning from Kenosha Saturday night were greatly exaggerated. Mrs. Simmons received slight bruises and Lambeau escaped with a scratch on his nose. "I'm fit as ever," the Green Bay coach said. Lambeau went to Madison today to confer with authorities regarding a game between the Packers and the Western Army All-Stars Aug. 8. Both Madison and Milwaukee have been suggested as sites for the game. Accompanying Lambeau were George Strickler, publicity director of the NFL, and Fred Liecht, a director of the Green Bay Packers, Inc.

PACKERS GET NEW FIELD AT MILWAUKEE

JUL 6 (Milwaukee) - A new field has been laid at the State Fair park where the Green Bay Packers will play two games, possibly three, this fall. The old field was ripped up, new tiling installed, and a 12-inch crown added to help facilitate drainage. Games scheduled here are with Detroit October 11 and Pittsburgh December 6. The Cardinal game, scheduled for Green Bay November 1, also may be shifted to Milwaukee.

CURLY LAMBEAU HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT

JUL 6 (Milwaukee) - Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers nursed slight injuries which he suffered in an automobile crash north of Milwaukee during the weekend. Mrs. Irene Simmons, 40, driver of the other car involved in the collision, and her daughter, Eileen, 5, suffered minor hurts. Lambeau declined medical attention for the cuts and bruises he incurred.

GREEN BAY PACKERS MAY OPEN DRILLS AUGUST 8

JUL 6 (Green Bay) - An early season schedule of stiff competition confronting the Green Bay Packers may result in opening practice on August 8, a week earlier than originally planned. Addition of teams from the armed services to the Packers' schedule this season will pitch the squad into heavy competition preceding the league schedule, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau explained in announcing the change.

PACKERS WILL PLAY ARMY IN MILWAUKEE

JUL 7 (Green Bay) - Curly Lambeau, coach of the Green Bay Packers, announced today his team will play the army's "Western" all-star team at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sunday September 13. Madison previously had been mentioned as the possible site of the game. Lambeau said approval had been obtained from Col. John Thomas Taylor, in charge of army emergency relief with the public relations office in Washington. All receipts will go to the army emergency relief fund. The Packers will begin training for the game and their NFL season August 8 at Green Bay.

LOU BROCK, KUUSISTO SIGNED BY LAMBEAU

JUL14 (Green Bay) - Signing of Lou Brock, a backfield star, and George Kuusisto, both veteran of the 1941 season, today swelled the Green Bay Packer roster to a total of 14 players. Even if this were a normal year, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau would welcome this aggressive pair back to the ranks. With football players on the list of restricted items this season, Lambeau is highly pleased to have their contracts filed away. Brock is a distant cousin of center Charles Brock, who signed a contract some weeks ago. He has seen three years of service with the Green Bay team, improving each season. "Brock is too valuable a man to be left on the bench very often, so it is probable that he will see service this year at both the fullback and right halfback positions," Lambeau stated. "He is a good punter and a better than average passer." An injury to Brock the latter part of the 1941 season proved costly for the Packers. He played an important role in the game at Chicago Nov. 2, when the Packers overpowered the Bears, 16 to 14...IN PURDUE BACKFIELD: Brock played in the Purdue backfield for three seasons, and he was a member of the Chicago All-Star team of 1940. He is six feet tall, weighs 195 pounds and is 24 years old. During the offseason he runs a farm at Stafford, Kan. Since he is married, Uncle Sam is not likely to want him for military duty this year. Kuusisto, one of the many men the Minnesota Gophers have trained for the Green Bay team, came here last season. Weighing 230 pounds, he is a guard who should prove outstanding in the Packer line this year. He stands an even six feet in height. Like Brock, Kuusisto is not likely to be wanted in the army at present. He still is working in Minnesota this summer, and Lambeau found him in excellent shape on a recent visit there.

PACKERS GET CHUCK SAMPLES, APPLETON STAR

JUL 15 (Green Bay) - Northeastern Wisconsin fans will have a native son to cheer in the Green Bay Packer games this fall whenever Chuck Sample, former Appleton High school star, is in the lineup. Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau said that the husky Appleton youth will play at either fullback or blocking back. He is the third backfield man and the 15th player to be signed for the 1942 NFL campaign. Sample is one of the greatest football players ever turned out at Appleton High. He was a constant threat in Fox River Valley conference games. Although he never played on a title team at Appleton, the Green Bay schools were relieved when he graduated. He started as a ninth grader and played through his senior year...PLAYED UNDER SPEARS: Following high school, Sample went to Toledo University, where he played under the famous Dr. Clarence Spears. Dr. Spears told Coach Lambeau that Sample proved to be an unusually good backfield man, and should make good in big time professional football. Last season Sample played with the Packers' farm club, the Long Island Indians. The Indians, who were coached by Verne Lewellen, former Packer great, won the championship of their league, with Sample taking an important part. At present Sample is employed at Appleton...CONTACT OTHER PROSPECTS: Coach Lambeau is continuing his conferences with other prospects, and expects to have a full squad when he opens practice here Aug. 8.

MANY TICKETS BEING BOUGHT

JUL 15 (Green Bay) - Packer fans are responding very enthusiastically to the suggestion that they place their ticket orders early, it was announced today by Ralph C. Smith, director of sales. "We have had a large number of requests for season tickets," Smith said. "Fans appreciate the advantage of eliminating all ticket worries by making a single transaction and they realize that they have a fine selection of seats if they buy now. There also is a real saving in money if a season ticket is bought. For instance, there is a difference of $2.20 for 13 of the sections in City stadium." Season ticket prices range from $3.30 to $8.25 for three games - the Chicago Bears, Sept. 27, Chicago Cardinals Nov. 1, and Cleveland Oct. 18...BEAR GAME TICKETS: Smith also revealed that many fans are buying tickets for single games, including those in Milwaukee. An especially large number of orders have been received for the Chicago Bear game, many of them from cities such as Chicago, La Crosse and Eau Claire. In the event a season ticket holder is inducted into the army the unused portion of the ticket will be refunded, Smith announced. In care the federal tax is raised, it will not affect any tickets already purchased.

DILWEG TO RUN FOR CONGRESS

JUL 20 (Green Bay) - La Vern R, Dilweg, famous in Green Bay and throughout Wisconsin as a former football player, prominent as an attorney and businessman, announced this morning that he will seek the Democratic nomination for congressman in the Eighth District. Assemblyman Harold A. Lytle, Green Bay, had previously announced his candidacy for the nomination. Joshua L. Johns, the present congressman, is expected to seem the nomination on the Republican ticket. Dilweg's announcement included the fact that his law partner,

Don Hutson assists an unidentified young woman at the Packer Playdium, February 7, 1942.

1942 Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Sports Teams Mobil Gas Ink Blotter

1942 Curly Lambeau Signed Player's Contract (John Stonebraker) and Letter. It may seem far fetched, but in 1942 end John Stonebraker was paid a whopping $225 for each game played for the Green Bay Packers. Presented here is proof of that interesting salary tidbit, and it comes in the form of the USC alum's '42 Packers contract signed by legendary head coach and team co-founder Curly Lambeau. (Source: Heritage Auctions)

Gerald F. Clifford, will act as the campaign manager, and included statements from both, Dilweg said: "I have always been a liberal Democrat, and have actively supported President Roosevelt. My campaign platform is short. I will, in every way, if elected, support the president of the United State, and render every assistance I can in the defense of this country, as a member of the congress."..."FOR DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES": "I am fully in accord with the principles of the Democratic party as announced in their convention at Fond du Lac on June 20, 1942, and I am fully in accord with the declaration of principles by the Committee for Liberal Action at Fond du Lac on July 12, 1942. If elected, I will carry out the duties of the office to the best of my ability. I invite the support of all who believe in actively supporting the president of the United States, and will thank you for any consideration you may give me." In supporting Dilweg's candidacy, Clifford, his campaign manager, said: "Mr. Dilweg's candidacy is the result of a number of conferences had with various liberal leaders of the Eighth Congressional district. It was felt that it was absolutely essential to defeat Mr. Johns that some outstanding man enter the field. We believe in Mr. Dilweg that we have such an individual, and that all liberals may unite in the election of a congressman wholly committed to the support of the President of the Unites States and the National Defense program. Johns should be, and we believe, will be beaten, as we intend to carry the campaign to every precinct in the Eighth Congressional district from now until the polls close."

last season after a promising start. He appeared headed for a permanent berth until he received a concussion in a workout Sept. 17. Having gained about 15 pounds during the summer, he now weighs about 220. He is five feet, 10 inches in height, and 24 years old. A native of Monongahela, Pa., scene of the famous Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, Bucchianeri played great football in high school and then went on to win three letters at the University of Indiana. He was married shortly before he reported last season, and is likely to be exempt from military duty for some time, especially since he expects to become a father next month...TRYOUT WITH CARDINALS: The newcomer to the Packer ranks, Joel Mason, tried out with the Chicago Cardinals last season both in the backfield and at end, but was released because of a surplus of material. "That's what happens so often to promising, even excellent players," Coach Lambeau commented. "Every year each club is forced to let some of its best men to go when it comes time to cut the squad to 33 players. Because of his lack of experience, this is what happened to Mason." Lambeau lost no time signing Mason when he found that he was still anxious to play football. He weighs in six feet, one inch tall, weighs 197 pounds, and is 25 years old. Married and the father of a child, he also is not likely to be called for military service this year. Lambeau will use him either at end or in the backfield.

LAMBEAU TO REPORT AT STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING

JUL 29 (Green Bay) - Stockholders of the Green Bay Packers, Inc., will hold their annual meeting in the supervisor's room of the Brown country courthouse at 8 o'clock tonight to transact important business and to hear - with more interest than ever this year - the discussion by Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau of the prospects for the 1942 campaign in the NFL. One statement in Lambeau's preview is sure to lay some fears to rest. Of the ten veterans still unsigned and available for action, only two are classed as holdouts at this time. They are halfback Tony Canadeo and quarterback Larry Buhler. The other eight veterans are Don Hutson, Ray Riddick, Larry Craig and Harry Jacunski, ends; Buckets Goldenberg, guard; Baby Ray, tackle, and Joe Laws and Andy Uram, backs. Lambeau is confident that all will answer the call for the opening meeting Saturday Aug. 8...24 UNDER CONTRACT: So far 24 players are under contract to the Green Bay club - two ends, three centers and seven backs. One of those listed as a backfield man, Joel Mason of Western State Teachers college, also plays end and may be used at that position if necessary. Besides the available veterans with whom Lambeau is negotiating, there are at least eight other players listed as good prospects. If all these men are placed under contract, Lambeau will have a working squad of 42 players. That would compare favorably with the number reporting in previous seasons. However, as even the casual observer might expect, Coach Lambeau has a nice piece of work cut out for himself this season. Many of the veterans, including players who were due for brilliant careers this fall, are no longer available because of the war. New material has been extremely difficult to locate and sign for the same reason...LAMBEAU OPTIMISTIC: Yet Lambeau's message is quite sure to be an optimistic one. He gave up his usual summer vacation entirely this year and concentrated building up a squad worthy of those that wore the Packer colors in years past. Although much remains to be done during the next few weeks, the results so far have been quite encouraging. One nice thing about the war, if you want to put it that way, is that it effects everybody to some extent. Lambeau realizes that all of the other nine clubs in the circuit have been hit, too, even if most of them not nearly so badly as the Packers. Lambeau would like to see Buhler and Canadeo back on the team, but the club is unable to meet their present demands. Buhler was in to see the coach this week, but left without accepting his best offer. "It looks as if we'll have to do without Larry this year," the coach commented...CANADEO TOO HIGH: Canadeo's request for pay, Lambeau states, is far out of line with what the club can give him. Tony was a likely-looking halfback in his first year, and Lambeau offered him a substantial raise in his salary. This was turned down, so Lambeau may be forced to put him up for trade. Lambeau had an appointment with Hutson for Tuesday, but the fleet pass receiver was called out of the city by the death of his grandmother. Hutson has been holding back of his business establishment here, the Packer Playdium, but Lambeau believes he will sign a contract as soon as he makes an arrangement to assure the safety of his investment. Goldenberg, who already has seen nine years of service as a guard, also has business complications. Once they are solved, Lambeau thinks, Buckets also will be ready to affix his signature to another contract...CRAIG ON WAY HERE: Craig is believed to be on his way to Green Bay for a conference with the boss, while Laws was to have met Lambeau for a huddle this afternoon. Baby Ray and Jacunski apparently have agreed to terms, but have not attended to the detail of signing their contracts. Nothing has been heard from Uram, but Lambeau isn't worried or even wondering. Uram is the type that doesn't like to be bothered with red tape, and likely as not will show up Aug. 8 quite unannounced and ready to claim his uniform. At present he is working in Minneapolis. Riddick, the other veteran, has been signed as a coach at Dartmouth, but Lambeau believes he will be able to effect some arrangement that will enable him to play with the Packers again. A definite answer is expected shortly.

ISBELL, FOOTBALL'S GREATEST PASSER, REJOINS PACKERS

JUL 20 (Green Bay) - Left halfback Cecil Isbell, acknowledged by the NFL office as the most productive forward passers of all time, has signed a contract to play his fifth season with the Green Bay Packers. Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau, in announcing this latest addition to his steadily growing playing roster, expressed confidence that Isbell will continue to amaze the football world with his exploits. "I am looking forward to Isbell's best year," said the Green Bay mentor. "Great as he was last season, I still do not believe that he has recalled his peak in performance." Isbell is the seventh veteran and 16th player to sign a contract for Green Bay's 1942 campaign. The squad now includes two ends, three tackles, six guards, 1 center and four backs. Several additional men are expected to come to terms this week. Married, and the father of a daughter, Isbell, is not likely to be called for military duty for at least until after the close of the football season. He is engaged in a water softener enterprise in Manitowoc, where he makes his home when he is not playing football...HUTSON NOT SIGNED: Still unsigned is Don Hutson, Isbell's receiver in the majority of his tosses. Hutson was named the NFL's most valuable player last year. Isbell received highly deserved recognition last season by being named to the starting left halfback post on the NFL honorary team. He was of greatest benefit to the Packers as a forward passer, although he also was one of the team's leading yardage producers from the line of scrimmage. In his brilliant 1941 campaign, Isbell tossed at least one touchdown pass in every game, a feat unprecedented in the National league. He set a record with his 15 touchdown completions, and he established another mark in gaining a total of 1,479 yards on aerials...BREAKS BAUGH'S MARK: Officials statistics for 1941 show that Isbell attempted 206 passes and found his receiver in 177 of them for an average of .568. With those 117 completions, he shattered the mark of a fellow Texan, Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins. Baugh's aerial work for 1941, while great, did not approach Isbell in quantity not effectiveness. He attempted 193 passes and completed 106 for an average of .509. His total yardage was 1,236, and he pitched ten touchdowns. Although he attempted far more than Baugh, Isbell had only 11 of his passes intercepted by opponents. Baugh had 19 chalked up against him. Isbell ranked 11th on the list of National league ball carriers for the 1941 season. He lugged the pigskin 72 times for a total of 317 yards and an average of 4.4 yards. His longest gain was 24 yards...SCORES ONE TOUCHDOWN: The aerial artist also took a hand in the scoring last season with one touchdown. He now has 57 points to his credit on nine touchdowns and three points after touchdowns. At Purdue university, Isbell gained recognition on several Big Ten, midwest and national honor teams. He was named the most valuable player on the Chicago All-Star team of 1938, and was awarded a trophy symbolic of the recognition. Previous to being named to the first team last year, Isbell twice was mentioned for all-professional honors and another season he was elected to the second team...OBTAINED IN DRAFT: Lambeau obtained Isbell in the NFL draft of 1937. Arnold Herber was setting the league afire with his great passing at that time, but it was not long before Isbell was creating attention. In 1940, Isbell was well on his way to stardom. Lambeau's squad worries are by no means ended, but he believes that another two weeks will see him with the nucleus of a team capable of challenging anything the National league has to offer this season. Practice will begin about Aug. 8.

BUD SVENDSEN NAMED COACH

JUL 22 (Green Bay) - Earl (Bud) Svendsen, former Green Bay Packer center, has been named assistant head football coach at the University of Connecticut, according to an announcement by President A.N. Jorgensen. Svendsen will report Sept. 1 with the rank of assistant professor. He is married and the father of two sons. Last year, Svendsen, an All-American center at Minnesota, played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He is the younger of the two Svendsens, both centers, who have played with the Packers. The other, George, was here last year and now is serving in the navy.

BOB INGALLS, MICHIGAN CENTER, JOINS PACKER TEAM

JUL 22 (Green Bay) - Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau today announced as a major preseason coup the signing of Bob Ingalls, probably as great a center as ever wore the maize and blue of the University of Michigan, to a Green Bay Packer contract for the 1942 campaign. Ingalls was drawn by Lambeau in the NFL draft last December. He showed interest in Lambeau's offer to come to Green Bay, but held back until he learned his status with his selective service board. It now appears that Ingalls will not be called for military duty until the latter part of November, and it may even be possible for him to finish out the season...MUCH LIKE SVENDSEN: According to Lambeau and others who have seen him perform, Ingalls is much on the order of Bud Svendsen, a former star center of the Packers. He is larger than Svendsen, however, being six feet, two inches tall and weighing 205 pounds. "Ingalls' work in the annual East-West game last year was outstanding," Lambeau declared. "He played 60 minutes at center, and looked so good that I am confident he should fit into the Packer picture from the first minute. There is no question but that Ingalls was one of the outstanding centers in college football last year," the Green Bay coach asserted...21 PLAYERS SIGNED: Lambeau now has 21 players on his roster. He has had a difficult time, finding enough available material this year, but believes that he will field a full squad when the team reports for its first meeting Saturday, Aug. 8. The initial practice session is schedule for the following Sunday morning.

BILL LEE, MIKE BUCCHIANERI BACK ON PACKER SQUAD

JUL 28 (Green Bay) - Three additional men were added to the fast-growing roster of the Green Bay Packers today with the signing of Bill Lee, veteran tackle; Mike Bucchianeri, a guard who was injured here early last season; and Joel Mason, a combination back and end from Western State Teachers college. Twenty-four players now are under contract to the Packers. The squad is shaping up nicely, and Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau is confident that he will have a full working force when he holds his report meeting Saturday Aug. 8. Lee showed up at Lambeau's office Monday after he had deposited his wife, the former Rosemary Maloney of Green Bay, and sundry possessions at the apartment they have rented for the season. About 10 pounds lighter than when he left last winter, he appeared to be in excellent trim. He spent the past seven months in the cattle business. It will be Lee's eighth season in professional football. Captain of the Alabama Crimson Tide in 1934, he was with the Brooklyn Dodgers for two and one-half years before coming to the Packers in 1937. At college he was a teammate of Don Hutson, the Packers' famous pass receiver who as yet has not signed for the 1942 season. The big lineman played with the College All-Stars in 1935, and in college he won All-America honors. He stands six feet, three inches, weighs 235 pounds, and is 30 years old. Last year he played an outstanding role, and Coach Lambeau is highly pleased to have him back on the team. Bucchianeri is entirely recovered from the injury that forced him off the squad

SPIRITED, FIGHTING ELEVEN IS PROMISED BY LAMBEAU

JUL 30 (Green Bay) - Additional fire and spirit will go a long way toward making up what has been lost in experience and talent, Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau predicted at the annual stockholders' meeting of the Green Bay Packers, Inc., here Wednesday evening. "I have been forced to turn down about 15 good players who did not seem to have what we need in mental attitude," the coach declared. "This year we can't use any men who look upon football as little more than a job." Although the Packers have lost heavily because of the war, and replacements are hard to find, Lambeau asserted he will have a first team fully as strong as any in the past. The second team will be weak in a few spots, and the third definitely will be below the usual standard...MOST SPIRITED TEAM: "Spirit is at least 50 percent in a football team, and this year we are going to have one of the most spirited teams we ever have had," Lambeau said. "Other clubs in the league have been hit, too, so we should be in good shape for the season. I am not going out on a limb and predict a championship, since I don't know just how strong the other teams will be, but the fans are going to see an excellent brand of football." The meeting, efficiently handled by President L.H. Joannes, lasted somewhat under an hour, but it included Lambeau's address, the financial report, election of directors, and a thorough discussion of Packer business...ALL DIRECTORS RETURNED: All 21 directors were reelected by unanimous ballot. They included: Milan J. Boex, H.J. Bero, E.D. Bedore, G.W. Calhoun, Gerald F. Clifford, Fred L. Cobb, E.R. Fischer, Joannes, Leslie J. Kelly, Dr. W.W. Kelly, Lambeau, Fred Leicht, Harvey L'Host, Charles Mathys, John Moffatt, J.E. Paeps, G.A. Reimer, Ed Schuster, A.E. Schumacher, A.B. Turnbull and H.G. Wintjens. At the directors' session following the meeting of stockholders, the three others were reelected, including Joannes as president, Lambeau as vice president, and Jonet as secretary-treasurer. Wintjens was elected to the executive committee to succeed Dr. Kelly, who becomes an ex-officio member. Other members of the executive committee, besides the officers, include Leicht, Turnbull, Fischer, Clifford and Bero...SOUND FINANCIAL STATE: Jonet, in making his financial report, revealed a sound condition and a net profit of $6,525.57 for last year. Lambeau's attitude was one of optimism despite the fact that 16 players from last season are in the armed forces and that 18 of the 20 men drawn in the National league draft also are not available. The 1942 edition of the Packers should be stronger at guards and tackles. Center will not be quite as strong, but Lambeau expressed satisfaction at the return of Charles Brock, whose complaint last year was that he did not see enough action. Don Hutson and Harry Jacunski are still unsigned, but the coach is confident that they will be back at left end. Right end will be weaker if Ray Riddick does not return. Riddick, thinking that the league would not operate this year, signed as a coach at Dartmouth last spring. Now, however, he wants to play with the Packers again, and is attempting to make an arrangement with the Dartmouth authorities...LETLOW IS BACK: Although the Packers have lost the valuable services of Charles Schultz, Russell Letlow has returned to play in the line. Letlow, Lambeau stated, appears to be in top shape. Lambeau also expects exceptionally good work from Paul Berezney, Fordham, and Fred Vant Hull, Minnesota, as well as from several other rookies. "The outlook for the backfield at present is not quite so encouraging, although it is not as bad as it might appear," Lambeau continued. "We lost three fullback, but we had been contemplating a change in our play for some time anyway, and this will give us a good opportunity to do so." Lambeau described as "tough" the loss of Hal Van Every and Clarke Hinkle. Cecil Isbell has returned to his left halfback position, however, and Lambeau regards this as a major triumph. Newcomers signed for tryouts are expected to show up well...BETTER THAN MOST: "On the whole, I think we are better off than most of the clubs. The Chicago Bears will have many of their players back, but they lost George McAfee and Norman Standlee, and that is something George Halas can't laugh off." Signing of Eddie Kotal, former Central State Teachers college athletic director, as backfield coach was described a wise move by Lambeau, since this year's team will require more coaching. Red Smith will continue as line coach.

LAWS, KAHLER SIGN CONTRACTS

JUL 30 (Green Bay) - Signing of two halfbacks familiar to Green Bay football fans, Joe Laws and Bob Kahler, today swelled the 1942 roster of the Packers to a total of 26. Laws, one of the smartest field generals ever to play with the Packers, will be returning to start his ninth season here when the squad reports Saturday, Aug. 8. Kahler is the promising rookie of 1941 who rounded out the season with Green Bay's farm club on Long Island. Coach Lambeau has assured himself that Laws is entirely recovered from the leg injury that plagued him a good part of the 1941 campaign. He is an excellent physical shape and Lambeau expects him to play as well as ever. An alumnus of the University of Iowa, Laws was the Big Ten's most valuable player in 1933. The following September he was a starting halfback on the first College All-Star team to play in the now famous charity classic in Soldier field, Chicago. Laws wasted little time

earning his salary with the Packers, and winning a place in the hearts of the fans at the same time. Only five feet, nine inches in height, his fine passing, receiving, elusive running and aggressive play seemed all the more amazing. He has taken over the signal calling duties from time to time with commendable success...HELPS BUILD SHIPS: At present Laws is working in the shipyards at Sturgeon Bay, but for the past several years he served as a physical education counsel for the NYA during the offseason. He is married and has three children. Kahler didn't quite make the grade with the Packers last season, but his work with the Long Island Indians have him valuable experience. Verne Lewellen, former Packer who coached the Indians, informed Lambeau that Bob really found himself during the latter part of the campaign. Married, and with a youngster in the family, Kahler apparently will not be called for military duty this year. He has been working in Seattle this summer, but will arrive here in time for the opening practice session. Speed and size are combined in Kahler's makeup. Despite his 200 pounds, distributed over a frame towering three and one-half inches over six feet, he can run the full length of the field in ten seconds flat - wearing a regulation football uniform!...TIES HURDLES RECORD: At the University of Nebraska, Kahler tied the IC-3A 70-yard hurdles record of 8.6 seconds. he has been clocked at 6.5 seconds in the 60 yard dash. Lambeau first was attracted to Kahler in the Rose Bowl game of Jan. 1, 1941. Although on the losing team, he was one of the stars. He is 25 years old. Kahler is the 25th player to sign a contract for the 1942 season.

PACKERS WILL LIKE MARQUETTE STADIUM SETUP

JUL 31 (Green Bay) - Playing the Western Army All-Stars in Marquette university stadium instead of State Fair park in Milwaukee is regarded as a highly satisfactory arrangement by the Green Bay Packers, even though the seating capacity is somewhat less. The Packers are scheduled to play the service team Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13. Marquette university is practically in the heart of Milwaukee, while State Fair park is out in a suburb. In view of the restrictions on transportation, fans will find the Hilltop field more convenient. The stadium is a neat setup, seating 28,000 - and no seats are beyond the five-year line. The Packers won't make any money on that game; if anything, they lose a little. They will be reimbursed for railroad fare, hotel and meals, but that is all they'll get. All proceeds above necessary expenses will go to the army relief fund as a contribution to the war effort. Coach Curly Lambeau wants to set right any fans who may regard this game, and any others that pro teams may play with service teams, as easy picking. Indeed, Curly has said that the servicemen should win if they are as strong on the gridiron as on paper. The team with the Packers are to meet in Milwaukee will come loaded with talent. It will feature some of the outstanding collegiate and professional gridders of the past several seasons. Moreover, Lambeau points out, the team will have one of the best coaches in the country in Major Wallace Wade, late of Duke university. Two non-league games, with Brooklyn and Washington, are hanging fire. The Brooklyn game would be played in the east Aug. 29, while the tilt with the Washington Redskins would come off the following weekend, Sept. 6 or 7, in Baltimore. The Baltimore game, for navy relief, is not much more than a rumor at this stage. Lambeau tried to get the Redskins to come here, but because of traveling connections this would conflict with their schedule. Aside from needing additional players to complete the squad, Lambeau is pretty well set for starting the season. The candidates will report Saturday, Aug,. 8, and will have their first workout on the following Sunday. Trainer Carl (Bud) Jorgensen has returned to work, and at present is supervising the cleaning and painting of the Packer quarters at City stadium. The Bluejay baseball team will use the facilities at East High school for the remainder of the season. Lambeau has assured himself that both the practice field and the playing field are in excellent condition. The stadium now seats about 25,000, an additional 1,600 seats having been installed under a WPA project late last fall.

FOOTBALL IS HERE - FIRST ROOKIE SHOWS UP

AUG 1 (Green Bay) - First of the Packer rookies to show up for the 1942 season is Ben Starrett, a chunky, broad-faced chap with a burning ambition to earn a permanent berth on Curly Lambeau's squad as a blocking back. He lost no time getting out to the practice field for some preliminary work, even though Lambeau is not asking the players to report until next Saturday. Starrett seems to be in fine shape, but he's so anxious to make good that he figures some rigorous calisthenics every day won't do him any harm. He was bothered a little by one of those summer colds, and he wants to make sure that he'll be in top condition when the practice grinds really gets underway. During the past several months Starrett has been working in a shipyard at Wilmington, Del, as a member of the launching crew. The job paid him pretty good money, and the work wasn't too hard, but he'd much rather play a nice, bruising game of football. Starrett claims he still has a great deal to learn, but he is no newcomer to professional football. In 1940, his first year out of college, he played with the San Francisco Packers. Part of last season he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers, having been drawn in the NFL draft of the year before, and the rest of the season he played with the Wilmington Clippers. After playing four years of high school football at Santa Rose, Cal., Starrett went to St. Mary's college for two years. He then transferred to Louisiana State, continuing his work toward a degree in physical education. He still needs a few credits and hopes to pick them up soon. "I've always liked playing football, and certainly hope I make the grade with Green Bay," he declared on his arrival here. "It's my belief that pro ball far surpasses the college brand - better to watch and better to play, and I believe it is at its best with the Packers." Starrett saw the Packers play at Pittsburgh last season. That was right after the Steelers had released him, so he didn't get into the game. The only member of the Packer squad he knows personally is Mike Bucchianeri. Mike, a guard from Indiana, was severely injured here early last fall, but managed to play with the Clippers the latter part of the season, so the two became teammates. Starrett has few interests outside of football - and collecting pennies. He left the pennies back in Wilmington; they're too heavy to lug around.

PRO FOOTBALL SEASON AT HAND; PRACTICE OPENS MONDAY FOR EAGLES; FIVE TEAMS DRILL IN STATE

AUG 2 (Chicago) - The July sheet came down off the calendar Saturday and there on the August page were red circles around the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th. The pro football season is here. On Monday the Philadelphia Eagles will beat the other nine NFL teams to work by setting up training camp at Two Rivers, Wis., with approximately 50 men due to report. Thursday the New York Giants will move into Superior, Wis., for the third year and Saturday the Green Bay Packers will answer Coach Curly Lambeau's whistle on their home field. They'll be followed on August 9 by the Detroit Lions, drilling at Charlevoix, Mich., and on August 10 the six other teams will begin the practice grind. The Chicago Bears, with their immediate objective the College All-Star game August 28 at Chicago's Soldier field, will drill at Delafield, Wis. The Washington Redskins will be at San Diego, Calif., the Pittsburgh Steelers at Hershey, Pa., the Brooklyn Dodgers at Hun school, Princeton, N.J., the Cleveland Rams at Hiram college, Hiram, O., and the Chicago Cardinals at Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis. The first days of August send George Halas and Lambeau and Steve Owen and all the rest into a frenzy over charts and signals and rosters. And with but one change the head coaching lineup in the pro league will be the same this year. The exception is at Brooklyn where Mike Getto has replaced Jock Sutherland. At Pittsburgh, where the 1941 coaching brigade changed almost as rapidly as the panorama of a fireworks display, Walter Kiesling will be back where he ended last season. Halas will again boss the two-in-a-row champion Bears. Jimmy Conzelman will direct the Cards, Lambeau the Packers, Earl "Dutch" Clark the Rams, Bill Edwards the Lions, Owen the Giants, Earle "Greasy" Neale the Eagles and Ray Flaherty the Redskins. With the exception of Washington which will train on the west coast for the second yard, the rest of the league will stay in the Midwest or East, the heaviest congestion being in Wisconsin where five teams will work out. The league season will officially open on September 13 when Philadelphia goes to Pittsburgh and Cleveland and the Chicago Cards clash at Buffalo. It ends with three games on December 6, after which the playoff between champions of the eastern and western divisions will be held.

PACKERS PLAN BENEFIT EXHIBITION

AUG 2 (Green Bay) - Coach E.L "Curly" Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers said today verbal agreements had been made for Packer exhibition games at Brooklyn with the football Dodgers on August 29 and at Baltimore with the Washington Redskins September 6 or 7. Arrangements were made by telephone, Lambeau said, and he is awaiting contracts. He had he was not sure whether the Baltimore game would be played on Labor Day, September 7. Lambeau said he understood the games would be benefits for one of the military or naval relief services.

CANADEO, URAM DUE THIS WEEK FOR CONTRACT TALKS WITH LAMBEAU

AUG 4 (Green Bay) - Halfbacks Tony Canadeo and Andy Uram are headed for Green Bay and a contract session with Packer Coach Curly Lambeau. Uram expects to arrive Wednesday, while Canadeo is due to come in Thursday. Although Canadeo was reported to be dissatisfied with his contract, he is expected to sign after a meeting with Lambeau. Only three other regular backs are under contract - Cecil Isbell, Lou Brock and Joe Laws...START SECOND SEASON?: Provided they come to an agreement, Canadeo will be starting his second season, and Uram his fifth. Uram did his collegiate grid work at the University of Minnesota, and Canadeo was a star at Gonzaga. Lambeau has his desk cleared for a busy week, since a number of 1941 stars are expected in for conferences. Among the missing are Don Hutson, great pass snaring end and the NFL's most valuable player last year, and Harry Jacunski, also an end...16 ARE NEWCOMERS: The Cleveland Rams put Lambeau in an envious mood today when they announced that all of their players for the 1942 season have been signed. The Packers have 26 players under contract, but 16 of them are newcomers. The Green Bay squad will assemble at City stadium Saturday morning for a report meeting with the coaching staff. The gridders will plunge into their first drill Sunday. A number of players already have started working out at City stadium.

NATIONAL LEAGUE CLUBS OPEN PRACTICE SESSIONS

AUG 4 (Green Bay) - All teen members of the NFL will launch their practice sessions no later than next Monday, and a significant fact is that five of them will be headquartered in Wisconsin. That's a talking point for you Badger State boosters! The Packers, of course, will stay right here in Green Bay, Coach Curly Lambeau believing that is as good a place as any for the early season work. Visitors to Wisconsin will include the Chicago Bears at St. John's Military academy in Delafield, the New York Giants at Superior, the Chicago Cardinals at Carroll college in Waukesha, and the Philadelphia Eagles at Two Rivers. Washington's Redskins will leave the hustle and turmoil of the nation's capitol for a brief sojourn at San Diego, which is about as far as they can travel without leaving the continental limits of the United States. Other clubs will stay nearer home, the Detroit Lions going to a camp at Charlevoix, Mich., the Pittsburgh Steelers to Hershey, Pa., the Cleveland Rams to Hiram, Ohio, and the Brooklyn Dodgers to Princeton, N.J. First to start practice are the Philadelphia Eagles, at Wisconsin's coolest city. It has never been explained whether they go to Two Rivers to become inured to the frigidity of the National league cellar, since they often wind up in that position, or whether the cool temperature unfits them for the hear of the championship race. The Eagles opened practice Tuesday, and the New York Giants will put on their togs Thursday. Saturday the Bears will have their opening workout, and Sunday the Packers and Detroit get underway. The five other clubs have their initial practice sessions scheduled for next Monday. This year's squads will reveal the most sweeping changes in personnel since the National league was organized. Approximately 100 players of last season have entered the various branches of the armed forces, and a few others simply have retired from professional football. With 33 players permitted a club, that means nearly one-third of the veterans gone. A survey of National league forces will disclose, however, that most of the clubs will have their best men back. Unfortunately, this is not quite true of the Packers, although Curly Lambeau is confident that replacements will prove satisfactory. The Packers lead the circuit with 16 players - virtually half of last year's squad - in the armed forces. The champion Bears will have Clyde (Bulldog) Turner at center, Sid Luckman at quarterback and Bill Osmanski at fullback. Sammy Baugh is returning to Washington. Tuffy Leemans and Mel Hein still loom on the New York Giants' roster. One new coach appears this season, Mike Getto replacing Jock Sutherland at Brooklyn. Chile Walsh, an assistant under Jimmy Conzelman for the Chicago Cardinals last year, will work with for Dutch Clark at Cleveland. Bull Karcis, former New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steeler backfield star, is an assistant coach under Bill Edwards at Detroit. The change of most interest to Green Bay fans, naturally, is the addition of Eddie Kotal as backfield coach for the Packers. Kotal is an old Packer star, and is coming back after resigning his post as athletic director at Central State Teachers college in Stevens Point. George Berg, Green Bay East high basketball coach, replaces Kotal at Point. Coach Lambeau thinks the addition of a backfield coach will prove highly important this year. With a large crop of new material, Lambeau will have general supervision of the team, while Kotal will handle the backs and Red Smith will work with the linemen.

$75,000 GOAL SET FOR PACKER-ARMY RELIEF CONTEST

AUG 6 (Green Bay) - Arrangements to raise $75,000 for Army emergency relief through the Green Bay Packer-Army All-Star football game at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sept. 13 were completed at a meeting of Coach Curly Lambeau and Milwaukee civic leaders at Milwaukee Wednesday. A committee of Milwaukee businessmen was being organized today to help promote the game and solicit 1,000 contributors of $25 each. Each contributor would receive one reserved seat ticket. The top price on regular tickets probably will be $3.30. Lambeau stated that Marquette university officials have donated the use of the stadium and will handle the ticket sale. Tickets also will be sold at regular Packer agencies, and announcements on the sale will be made later. Neither Packer players nor members of the football organization will receive any pay for their services, Lambeau said. The stadium seating capacity is being enlarged to take care of 25,000 fans. Lambeau is working with William L. Coffey, manager of Milwaukee county institutions, and the Milwaukee county defense council. Interest is running sky high in Milwaukee, and Lambeau is looking forward to the greatest turnout for an emergency relief game in Milwaukee history. Frank Greenya, noted American Legion official from Milwaukee, who also heads the entire USO organization there, is taking an active part in promotion of the game. Two prominent Milwaukee civic leaders, both of whom played high school football in Green Bay years ago, will do promotional work, and it was quite a coincidence that Lambeau 'bumped' into them at a luncheon at the Schroeder hotel. They are Stub Clark, a quarterback at West back in 1912, and Phil Robinson, an East High grid great in 1911. Robinson will serve as assistant chairman or chairman of the ticket committee while Clark is a member of the speakers committee. With opening practice only two days away, Lambeau is confident that he'll have several more regulars in the field before the curtain lifts at the practice field adjoining City stadium at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. A number of veterans already have started workouts, running around the City stadium track and taking various kinds of exercises. Official league practice starts Sunday.

DON HUTSON SIGNS FOR EIGHTH SEASON

AUG 7 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson, the NFL's most valuable player, best pass catching end and greatest team player, will wear Green Bay Packer togs again in 1942 - his eighth season in pro football. Hutson walked into Coach Curly Lambeau's office in the Northern building Thursday afternoon, chatted for five minutes and then put his name on a Packer contract. Quieting talk that Hutson was a holdout because of the fact that he had signed two days before practice, Lambeau explained that "Hutson never was a holdout. We just didn't get a chance to talk over matters for this season. Hutson is enthusiastic about the coming campaign, and expects a great year."...OFFICIAL "GO SIGN": Signing of the former University of Alabama headlight puts somewhat of an official "go sign" on the Packers' initial practice scheduled at the field adjoining City stadium at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. It completed one of the most famous batteries in professional history - Cecil Isbell pitching and Hutson catching. Isbell, a Manitowoc businessman during the offseason, signed about a month ago. Hutson is the 27th player to sign but is the only veteran end on the roster at present. Lambeau is still dealing with Harry Jacunski and Larry Craig. Two other ends on the dotted line are John Stonebreaker, Southern California, and Earl (Swede) Ohlgren, Minnesota. A Green Bay son, Hutson will be "defending champion" of five records established during the 1941 season. He scored the most touchdowns in any player's professional career, 57; most touchdowns in one season, 12; most touchdowns on passes in one year, 10; most points in one season, 98; and most points in any player's career, 389...GREEN BAY HERO: Hutson Bears, he caught an 87-yard pass from Arnie Herber to give the Packers a 7 to 0 victory. Ever since then Hutson has

been a hero in Green Bay ever since he arrived here in 1935. In his first pro start against the Chicago Bears, he caught an 87-yard pass from Arnie Herber to give the Packers a 7 to 0 victory. Ever since then Hutson has been in the National league sun. Opposing coaches soon came to consider him so dangerous that they rarely attempted to cover him with less than two men. The Bears, for instance, assigned three men to watch Hutson during the Western division playoff last December. A year-round trainer, Hutson is in excellent shape for the coming campaign, although he still must get toughened up. Hutson stands six feet, one half inch and packs only 185 pounds, a puny poundage compared to some of the league's giants..."BIG BUSINESS" TODAY: "Big business" in the person of Baby Ray, giant tackle, was scheduled today at Lambeau's office. Ray arrived Thursday and will talk over terms with end Larry Craig and backs Andy Uram and Tony Canadeo. The deck has been cleared for the opening practice. Trainer Bud Jorgensen and his assistant, Tim O'Brien, have made the training quarters ready, and the field, despite rain, is in good shape. Ten or 15 players worked out at City stadium this week running around the track and performing other exercises.

RAY, URAM, CANADEO SIGN CONTRACTS; PACKERS 'KICK OFF' SUNDAY MORNING

AUG 8 (Green Bay) - That great, big hunk of man - Buford (Baby) Ray - and two halfbacks, Tony Canadeo and Andy Uram, put their names on Green Bay Packer contracts Friday afternoon as Coach Curly Lambeau prepared to launch business at City stadium and areas near there today. Graduates of the Packer school, having finished four years apiece, Ray and Uram will be staring their fifth season in the pro type of football. Ray played tackle for Vanderbilt and Uram is a University of Minnesota alumnus. Canadeo is one of the few sophomores on the squad, having started last year after a brilliant career at Gonzaga university. Friday's contract talks boosted the roster population to 30, and left Lambeau in a healthy situation for the opening practice at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The players gathered at training headquarters at 11 o'clock this morning to get instructions. The Packers now have 11 backs under contract, but only five of them are regulars - Uram, Canadeo, Cecil Isbell, Joe Laws and Lou Brock. Newcomers include Ted Fritsch, Stevens Point; Chuck Sample, Toledo; Don Miller, Wisconsin; Ben Starrett, St.. Mary's; Joel Mason, Western State Teachers, and Bob Kahler, Nebraska. Kahler was a star for the Long Island Indians, a Packers farm club, last year. Most important business of this week was signing of Don Hutson, giving Lambeau three ends. Others include rookies John Stonebreaker, Southern California, and Earl (Swede) Ohlgren, Minnesota. Harry Jacunski, veteran wing, still is unsigned. Lambeau announced Friday that Sunday's drill will not be secret, but that all further drills, unless announced as "open", will be held under cover. A huge crowd is expected to the opening workout. At least three new boys will be unable to make the opening drills. Tony Cianci, Florida guard, will not arrive until Sunday night because of transportation difficulties, while Bob Ingalls, Michigan center, and Clarence Herndon, Nebraska guard, are working out with the College All-Stars. Just to refresh your memory, something more about Ray, Uram and Canadeo might be in order. Ray is the giant of the squad, standing six feet, six inches tall and weighing some 245 pounds. Starting his fifth season here, Ray hails from Nashville, and operates a liquor store during the offseason. A native of Minneapolis, Uram packs about 190 pounds on a five foot, 10 1/2 inch frame. Like Ray, Uram will be starting his fifth season here. Uram, like cheese, has improved with age, and hit his stride last year. Canadeo is listed around the league as one of the real finds. He stands an even six feet and weighs 190 pounds. His home is in Chicago, and he's a brother of Savvy, former St. Norbert college boxer.

PACKERS DOUBLE UP FOR FIRST WAR YEAR; TEAM 'READY TO GO'

AUG 8 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers are in for a little double duty, and it's all because of Adolf Hitler and a few Japanese upstarts. Since this is a war year and there is a general player shortage, Coach Curly Lambeau told his gridders at a report meeting this morning at training headquarters that some of the players will have to play more than one position. Tony Canadeo, a left half by trade, has volunteered to switch to fullback, while Andy Uram, a right half during pre-war years, also will master the left half spot. Lou Brock may work from the right half and fullback spots. Although no names are available, Lambeau expects to have his linemen play more than one position...FIRST GAME SEPT. 13: The above instances are only a few that will be tried during the coming practice campaign which opens officially at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The first game is booked for Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sept. 13, with the Western Army All-Stars as the foes. After looking over his charges this morning, Lambeau stated that "we're ready to go, but, please, no predictions." He added that the squad is in top shape, physically and mentally. The usual instructions took up most of the meeting, although some time was spent in introducing the new "kids", all of whom are playing their first year in professional football. Lambeau suggested that the players play golf in the afternoon to toughen up their legs. The team will practice every morning from 9:30 to noon. "If we are behind, we'll hold two workouts a day."..."ALIVE AND AWAKE": Lambeau urged the players to be up by 8 o'clock in the morning "so that you're alive and awake by the time practice starts." He added that all players must be in bed by midnight, and suggested that they get in bed by 10:30. The Sunday practice, to be held in the field adjoining City stadium, will give Lambeau a chance to analyze his players. The gridders, in turn, will limber up and take out those winter kinks. The Packer pilot said that he'd give out a few plays - "something to think about for the ensuing practice sessions."

PACKER GRID MACHINE STARTED

AUG 10 (Green Bay) - Rusty after a long layoff, the Green Bay Packer football machine sputtered, choked and finally started before several hundred admirers at the practice field Sunday morning. Twenty-eight men - seven less than last year - spent about two hours parading up and down the field. They were clad in grey sweat suits which also included a few weight reducing garments. The squad was the smallest in many years, and will meet the Western Army All-Stars in its first game in Milwaukee Sept. 13. Coach Curly Lambeau was in charge and had the assistance of Line Coach Red Smith and Backfield Coach Eddie Kotal. The experience was new for Kotal, although he went through the practice sessions as a player several years back. Kotal left his athletic directorship and coaching job at Stevens Point to join the Packer staff. Among the familiar faces were Buckets Goldenberg and Larry Craig, who signed contracts Saturday afternoon. Goldenberg is now the "old man" of the team, starting his 10th season. Clarke Hinkle would have been starting his 11th season, but he enlisted in the Coast Guard. Craig is launching his fourth season. Reporting were about 15 new men and some 15 veterans. A few others are expected to report later in the week, but there's still going to be plenty of holes to plug. At least, that was the general assumption around the field on Sunday. The players lined up for practice plays without a veteran fullback, Hinkle, George Paskvan and Eddie Jankowski having gone into the service. Don Hutson was the only veteran end on hand and Charley Brock the only seasoned center. Harry Jacunski, a veteran end, has not reported and Lambeau has no word from him for several weeks. Three of last year's tackles, Bill Lee, Baby Ray and Ernie Pannell, and four guards, Pete Tinsley, Goldenberg, Kuusisto and Russ Letlow, reported. The backfield regulars who are contract now include Cecil Isbell, Lou Brock, Tony Canadeo, Andy Uram, Joe Laws and Larry Craig...TONY CIACNI REPORTS: Tony Cianci, Florida guard, reported for work in today's drill. Other new men who will join the team later are Bob Ingalls of Michigan, a center, and Clarence Herndon, Nebraska guard. They are working out with the College All-Stars in Chicago and will join the team later. Another coming in later is Bob Flowers, a rugged, tough center from Texas tech. Joe Krivonak, South Carolina guard, and Mike Bucchianeri of Indiana, a guard, will report Tuesday. You're just as well qualified as anyone else to decide whether the men who made their first appearances on the practice field are due to stick around for awhile. No vital information was released by Lambeau and all the spectators received free was a chance to look over the available talent and make their own deductions...LAMBEAU SWITCHES MEN: When running off the plays, Lambeau switched his men around considerably. One line included John Stonebraker, Southern California, and Don Hutson, at ends; Fred Vant Hill, Minnesota, and Baby Ray at tackles; Buckets Goldenberg and Bill Kuusisto at guards; Charley Brock at center; and Larry Craig, Isbell, Chuck Sample and Don Miller, Wisconsin, in the backfield. Another backfield combination included Ben Starrett, St. Mary's; Lou Brock and Tony Canadeo, Canadeo, incidentally, may be shifted to the fullback spot. Lambeau feels that it's a tough assignment for the youngster because he will be following one of the best - Hinkle...PACKER PAYROLL UP: Signing of Craig and Goldenberg boosted the Packers' payroll to 32. The Packers held a workout at the field adjoining City stadium this morning, and will hold regular sessions there every day.

NEW BACKFIELD, WITH LOU BROCK IN HINKLE'S SPOT, SHOWS SPEED

AUG 11 (Green Bay) - Man's eyes are sometimes known

to play tricks, but the new backfield combination of Lou Brock at full, Larry Craig at blocking quarter, Andy Uram at right half and Cecil Isbell at left half possesses more speed than any combination last year. Coach Curly Lambeau displayed a broad grin this morning as he watched this quartet perform and added that the combination looked "very smooth" and had plenty of speed. The big Packer pilot also had some sweet words for his three fullbacks, each of whom are trying to fill Clarke Hinkle's boots. With Brock setting the pace, Ted Fritsch, late of Stevens Point State Teachers, and Chuck Sample of Toledo university are showing up well. Brock's switch from right half to fullback is the most important change in Lambeau's plans since he announced recently that the players would have to double up. Brock was a right halfback last year. Tony Canadeo, mentioned as a possible fullback, will remain at left half, his natural position, Lambeau said. The Packers signed Bob Flowers, a big center from Texas Tech, Monday afternoon. Flowers, who stands 6-1 and weighs 205 pounds, was recommended by his coach, Berle Hoffman, who told Lambeau that "Bob can make any professional team in the country." Flowers hails from Culver City, Cal., where he had been playing professional ball since his graduation from Texas Tech in 1940. Lambeau announced that the Packers will be issued their pads Wednesday morning in preparation for their first "rough stuff". The squad is in excellent condition and the coach believes the players will escape many of the early injuries which sometimes mark the first rough workout. Several new players and new veterans are expected to report later this week, and Lambeau hopes that Harry Jacunski, regular end last year, is among them.

LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS

AUG 11 (Green Bay) - If the goal of $75,000 is reached through the Green Bay Packer-Western Army All-Star game in Milwaukee Sept. 13, the Packers, representing the smallest city in the NFL, and cooperating Milwaukee agencies, will have kicked in more money than any one of the other league clubs to the Army Emergency Relief fund. Curly Lambeau believes the Packers and Milwaukee will outshow the eight other cities involved in emergency relief games with Western and Eastern Army clubs. He's sold on the idea that $75,000 can be raised through the sale of 1,000 seats at $25 per as well as the normal gate receipts. The only nicks to be taken out of the receipts will be for the Packers' railroad fare and hotel expenses, and printing of tickets. Marquette university is donating the use of its stadium, and all stadium workers will work gratis. The Packer players, coaching staff and others connected will receive no money for their efforts. Another big step was taken at a meeting of Lambeau and a group of Milwaukee civic leaders at Milwaukee Monday when committees were selected. Besides the $25 seats near the 50-yard line, the remaining seats will be priced at $1, $2 and $3. That $25-per-seat deal really hit home today when Ralph C. Smith, director of ticket sales for the Packers, received an order for four $25 seats from David B. Eisendrath of Racine. It was the first request for a twenty-fiver here, and, incidentally, the largest single amount of money ever paid for one seat through the Packer office. Plans for the Packers' usual season ticket campaign are in the making, and will be announced later.

BABE WEBB, HAWAIIAN FLASH, SIGNS WITH PACKERS; JACUNSKI QUITS FOR U.S. NAVY

AUG 12 (Green Bay) - Good and bad news fluttered from the office of Packer Coach Curly Lambeau today. The good yarn was the signing of Babe Webb, a Hawaiian halfback, and the bad story was Harry Jacunski's decision to quit football in favor of the United States Navy. Webb, a former New Mexico State star, who was placed on the Border conference all-star team in 1939, signed by cablegram Tuesday afternoon from his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. He expects to arrive in San Francisco by Clipper plane sometime this week and should arrive in Green Bay early next week, Lambeau said. Webb was recommended by Red McQuenn, sports editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. He had been playing with the Honolulu Bears, a semi-pro squad, and, according to McQueen, Webb is "the sweetest running back I have ever seen." McQueen wrote Lambeau that Webb is interested in starting a professional football career. Lambeau pointed out that Webb should add considerable speed to the Packer backfield "because those Hawaiians are usually quick as cats. And what's more this boy (Webb) goes 185 pounds, which is large for the average Hawaiian." Jacunski wrote Lambeau from his home in New Britain, Conn., saying that he decided to join the Navy after being promised a commission by Jim Crowley. He passed his physical education in New York. "If I fail other requirements, I'd like to play Green Bay," Jacunski wrote. Lambeau made his acquaintance with McQueen when the Packers played there in 1933. Webb is the first player recommended by McQueen, and Lambeau believes that McQueen's judgment is "fine". The Packer practice session Tuesday was devoted, in a good part, to punting, and Lambeau reported that his three fullbacks, Lou Brock, Ted Fritsch and Chuck Sample, and halfback Tony Canadeo were outstanding. Others kicking were Don Miller, Bob Kahler and Bob Starrett. During the passing drill, Canadeo and Brock looked much better than last year. Cecil Isbell, Don Hutson's favorite pitcher, is rounding into his old form. Pads were issued for the first time today, and a long and spirited "rough" session was held. As yet, no injuries have been reported. Lambeau is burning up the wires in search for an end. The wing corps includes only one veteran, Hutson, and two rookies, John Stonebraker, Southern California, and Earl (Swede) Ohlgren, Minnesota. Lambeau had been looking forward to the return of Jacunski.

BUHLER RETURNS FOR '42 SEASON

AUG 13 (Green Bay) - The Packers found another back today, but the chase for ends still continues. Coach Curly Lambeau announced that Larry Buhler, former University of Minnesota star and a senior in the Packer school. has decided to play football this fall. Buhler expects to sign his contract when he arrives in Green Bay from his home in Windom, Minn., later this week. Buhler is listed as a quarterback but has been playing both right and left half. He packs about 205 pounds around a 6-foot-2 frame. Buhler will be starting his fourth year here. With Harry Jacunski, regular end last year, in the United States Navy, Lambeau is in a serious predicament with his shortage of ends. Don Hutson is the only regular back, although there are two recruits, John Stonebraker and Swede Ohlgren, trying out. Lambeau announced that the Packers will hold two drills starting with today. They'll put on their uniforms Friday or Saturday and "if the boys work hard, we'll give them a vacation Sunday." Lambeau said he talked to three to four ends who would make good pro ends, "but it's the same old story - they are either up for the draft or are planning to enlist."

PACKER BACKFIELD FASTEST IN HISTORY - LAMBEAU

AUG 14 (Green Bay) - Coach Curly Lambeau authorized direct quotation of the following statement today: "Our backfield is the fastest in the history of the Green Bay Packers. It has all the speed and deception in the world." Lambeau gave the fullbacks credit for added speed, saying that Lou Brock is rapidly forgetting his halfback duties of other years, and is developing into a great fullback. The work of fullbacks Ted Fritsch and Chuck Sample is outstanding. Bob Kahler, who worked with the Packers' farm club at Long Island last year, is also helping to put speed into the Packer backfield. And Lambeau adds that "he's one of the best pass receivers on the squad." Cecil Isbell, Tony Canadeo, Andy Uram, Joe Laws, Larry Craig and Kahler are the halfbacks or blocking quarterbacks who are carrying the speed torch. Babe Webb, the Hawaiian flash, is expected to make the backfield even faster after he arrives next week. Webb, like all Hawaiians, is quick as a cat and a crack ball carrier. The line looks good, Lambeau said after watching his charges Thursday. However, the end situation is still serious, what with Don Hutson being the only regular. Joel Mason, Western State Teachers, is working with Hutson at left end, and John Stonebraker and Swede Ohlgren, both recruits, are holding down right end. Lambeau expects to make an announcement on the end problem in a few days. The coach had plenty of praise for Fred Vant Hull, Minnesota tackle, whose speed is impressive, and Paul Berezney of Fordham. The guards and centers are working into the positions well, he added. The Packers put on their uniforms for the first time today, and the first scrimmage is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. If everything is successful, Lambeau announces that the boys will get Sunday off. Lambeau will address a banquet meeting of Milwaukee civic leaders at the Milwaukee Athletic club at 6:30 Monday concerning plans for the Western Army-Packer game at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sept. 13. With the banquet session, the campaign to sell tickets for the game will be started officially. All receipts, with only bare expenses deducted, will go to the Army Emergency Relief fund. Committees hope to raise approximately $75,000. Tom Brickley, Milwaukee sportsman, who has been named chairman of the ticket sales committee, proposes to take 1,000 of the choicest seats and sell them at $25 apiece. Marquette's seating capacity of 20,000 in the concrete stands will be increased to about 30,000 by addition of temporary seats. The game will be one of a full schedule the army team will play against pro clubs in various pro clubs in various parts of the country. Wallace Wade, former Duke coach, is in charge of the Army eleven.

PACKERS OBTAIN BLOCKING BACK

AUG 15 (Green Bay) - George Dobash, blocking back at Washington and Jefferson university for three years, was obtained by the Green Bay Packers from the Philadelphia Eagles Friday afternoon. Coach Curly Lambeau completed the deal in a conference with Philadelphia officials at the Packer practice field, and Dobash took his first workout here this morning. The new player was selected on the Little All-America team last season. Lambeau believes that Dobash will fit well into the Packer backfield because the Washington and Jefferson formation is similar to that of the Packers. Dobash, however, didn't fit into the Eagles' T-formation which has the blocking quarterback calling signals. Dobash stands an even six feet and weighs 200 pounds. He's married, and isn't likely to be called for Army service before the end of this year. After spending an hour with Press-Gazette photographers Friday afternoon, the Packers were given a lengthy drill on offensive plays. A pass defense was set up, and the linemen were given their first look on 1942 defensive assignments...FIRST SCRIMMAGE: The first scrimmage session was scheduled for this afternoon, and "the boys who don't know their assignments will be required to report for 'homework' Sunday morning," Lambeau stated. The coach said he isn't expecting a crowd of players Sunday because "the boys really are progressing fast and have shown no mental lapses - yet."

LAMBEAU IS SATISFIED WITH TEAM PROGRESS

AUG 19 (Green Bay) - Except for the vital problem concerning the end positions, Coach Curly Lambeau is well pleased with the progress of the Packers in their second week of practice. The Packer mentor, now working his 24th Green Bay squad, is following up several possibilities for end material. He indicated that he expects to complete a deal or two within the next few days. It pleased Lambeau to see how the squad is steamed up over the benefit game with the Western division of the All-Army football team at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sunday, Sept. 13. They would like very much to win this contest, and apparently realize that they can do it only by playing a championship brand of football. Lambeau and others connected with the exhibition are certain that it will be a sellout. Packer fans can obtain tickets through the regular channels, and they also are on sale at the Marquette university ticket office...SEATS FOR $25: One thousand of the choicest seats will be sold at $25 each for those fans who wish to make a special contribution to the Army relief fund. Prices of the other seats in the concrete stands are $2.20 and $3.50, while seats in the bleacher section are selling for $1.10 and $2.20. Prior to meeting the army eleven, the Packers will play special relief games with National league foes in the east and will open the regular league season against the Chicago Bears here Sunday, Sept. 27. The eastern exhibition games are with the Dodgers in Brooklyn Saturday, Aug. 29, and the

Washington Redskins in Baltimore on Labor day, Sept. 7...LEAVE HERE AUG. 27: The Packers will leave Green Bay Aug. 27, and will maintain headquarters in the east until after the contest at Baltimore. Several of the players are nursing minor injuries, Coach Lambeau stated, but in general the squad is in fine physical condition. Among those reporting pulled muscles are Larry Craig, veteran end, and two rookies, Tom Bushby, Kansas State back, and John Stonebraker, Southern California end...BUCCHIANERI IS FATHER: Mike Bucchianeri, Indiana university guard who was with the Packers until he was injured early last season, arrived Tuesday and had his first workout this morning. Mike became the father of a healthy girl last Wednesday, and left home as soon as he was satisfied that everything was progressing satisfactorily. Ted Fritsch, a fullback from Central States Teacher college in Stevens Point, is showing up well for a rookie. Don Miller, a back from the University of Wisconsin, has lost ten pounds since starting practice and is gaining speed daily.

EVANS JOINS CARDINALS

AUG 19 (Waukesha) - Dick Evans, an end who played with the Packers last year before being traded to the Chicago Cardinals, joined the Chicagoans in training here Tuesday. He is a former Iowa player.

SEEMAN ENTERS ARMY

AUG 19 (Williams Field, AZ) - Lieutenant George M. Seeman, former Nebraska and Green Bay Packer end, was ordered Tuesday to report to the army football squad training at Camp Cookie, Cal., for a game in Los Angeles Aug. 30 against the Washington Redskins. Seeman is a student officer in flight training at this twin-engine bombing field.

PACKERS CONCENTRATE ON BROOKLYN DEFENSE

AUG 20 (Green Bay) - Defense against the Brooklyn Dodgers, first opponent of the team this season, was the lesson that Coach Curly Lambeau had for his Green Bay Packer squad this morning. Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau started the practice session at 9 o'clock by showing the motion pictures of last season's Dodger game in Milwaukee, and he followed this up with a strenuous workout. The Packers will leave Green Bay Aug. 27 for an eastern stay over a week. They are schedule to meet the Dodgers in an exhibition game at Brooklyn Saturday, Aug. 29, and will wind up against the Washington Redskins at Baltimore on Labor day, Sept. 7. Lambeau informed his players that there will be a scrimmage under game conditions Saturday morning. A lively workout was held Wednesday morning. In general, the team showed not only spirit and fire, but advancement as well. A few of the players were on the sidelines with pulled muscles or other minor injuries, including Don Miller, rookie back from Wisconsin, who was nursing a sore heel. Tony Canadeo and Cecil Isbell showed up well on passing, while Don Hutson, Andy Uram, Bob Kahler and Ted Fritsch were kept busy snaring them. Hutson was showing much of the skill he had in midseason last year, and the others also are giving satisfactory account of themselves...BEREZNEY STANDS OUT: The actions of Paul Berezney, rookie tackle from Fordham, must have proved gratifying to Coach Lambeau. Berezney, a literal giant at 220 pounds and six-feet-two, was working as hard and almost as skillfully as any of the veterans. Not that the veterans are taking their own good time about getting into fighting trim. Buckets Goldenberg, for example, was tearing into the play like a youngster, although he has been here longer than any other player. The Packers have had the advantage of good weather so far. Several of the veterans recalled that temperatures often have been rather high for the opening week or two, and they are now more than satisfied with conditions this year...STRICKLER COMPLIMENTS TEAM: An interested spectator at the drills of the past several days was George Strickler, publicity director of the NFL. Strickler is making the rounds of the league training camps, and was on his way today to Delafield, where the Chicago Bears are holding forth. He stated that the Packers look the best of any team he has seen so far. Coach Lambeau and his staff are spending much more time at work than the players. They not only have to plan strategy for the Brooklyn and Washington contests, but for the All-Army Western division game as well. Besides, they are starting to think of the opening league contest with the Bears here Sept. 27.

ARRANGE PACKER TICKET DRIVE SEPT. 10

AUG 21 (Green Bay) - Green Bay's widely-celebrated community spirit will be put to one of the biggest tests on Thursday, Sept. 10. This is the date for the intensive one-day season ticket drive that the Association of Commerce is sponsoring for the Packer football team. The Association of Commerce, realizing that this is a critical stage in Packer history, wishes to do something really constructive. This is no time, the merchants feel, for mere proclamations and endorsements; it is a time for an all-out effort on the part of those who are sincerely interest in the Packers and what they mean to the city. When the offer to conduct the campaign was made to the Packer corporation executive committee, it was enthusiastically received. The Packer officials were delighted to see this evidence of cooperation by the businessmen of Green Bay...PLAN BREAKFAST RALLY: The campaign will open on the morning of Sept. 10 with a breakfast rally at the Beaumont hotel. During the rest of the day the campaign workers will devote as much time as possible to the drive, and in the evening they will assemble again for a report meeting and dinner. Although the Association of Commerce really intends to get in and pitch, the workers will find it enjoyable and exciting, and, at the same time, they can feel they are engaging in a worthwhile civic project. The personnel will be divided up into teams, and prizes will be awarded to those producing the best results. In charge of the campaign are Don Fairbairn, the association's publicity and public relations chairman; President William Servotte, and Secretary Earl S. Ward...BIG CROWDS NEEDED: "This year it is more important than ever to have a large attendance of Green Bay fans at home games if the home schedules are to remain attractive to other teams," it was pointed out recently in an Association of Commerce bulletin. "A large season ticket sale is the most emphatic way Packer fans can show their desire for home games." A list of prospective workers is being turned over to the Packers' executive committee, and within the next several days they will be contacted personally. The Association of Commerce wishes to emphasize, however, that additional workers are needed. Anyone who is concerned with the well-being of the Packer organization is urged to volunteer, and that includes younger men and feminine fans as well. All such persons are requested to telephone the association at Adams 4705, or contact any of the three men in charge of the drive...THREE HOME GAMES: Three home games are on the Packer schedule this year. They open the NFL season by renewing their series with their traditional and most colorful foes, the Chicago Bears, Sept. 27. Cleveland invades Green Bay Oct. 18, and the Chicago Cardinals come here Nov. 1. Prices for season tickets are scaled from $3.30 to $8.25. Not only is there a substantial saving by purchasing a season ticket, but the worries and inconvenience of getting tickets for each game are avoided. Choice seats, too, are available to season ticket purchasers.

PACKERS SCORN MERCURY RISE

AUG 21 (Green Bay) - Hot weather or not, a scrimmage under full game conditions has been ordered for Saturday morning as the Packers bring to a close their second week of gridiron drills. Today's workout was somewhat lighter than Thursday's, when the squad concentrated on defense against the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Packers open their season by playing the Dodgers in an exhibition game at Brooklyn on Saturday, Aug. 29. Despite the sudden rise in temperatures, there was no evidence of loafing in Thursday's spirited drill. The day's work opened at 9 o'clock with the screening of motion pictures from last year's Brooklyn game in Milwaukee, and was followed with heavy exercise on the playing field until noon...CANADEO'S PASSING SHINES: Tony Canadeo's passing proved to be one of the morning's features. The Gonzaga back, now in his second year with the Packers, has showed steady improvement during the past several days. Cecil Isbell, rated the best passer in the National league last season, also had a hand in the passing, and seemed to be close to perfection again. Two veterans, guard Buckets Goldenberg and tackle Bay Ray, stood out among the linemen. Goldenberg is in his tenth season here, but he worked under the hot sun in his heavy uniform without apparent complaint...THREE MAN STAFF: Coach Curly Lambeau's move in adding an assistant to his staff already is showing results. Eddie Kotal, former Packer who left the athletic directorship at Stevens Point Teachers college to return to the Packers, is kept busy handling the backs. Richard (Red) Smith continued to work on the linemen, while Lambeau is in general charge.

TEX HINTE, STAR PITTSBURGH END, ADDED TO PACKER ROSTER

AUG 22 (Green Bay) - Harold (Tex) Hinte, a six-foot, 195-pound end from the University of Pittsburgh, was in a Green Bay uniform today as the Packers scrimmaged in preparation for their exhibition contest with the Dodgers at Brooklyn next Saturday, Aug. 29. The ends have been Coach Curly Lambeau's chief concern - about his only concern, in fact - in regards to players. He still is following up several other leads in hopes of acquiring another end or two, but with Hinte here he can manage even if no other contracts develop. Hinte arrived here Friday to sign his contract. Coach Lambeau found him in excellent shape, although he naturally will take it easy for a few days. He played fine football for Pittsburgh, and the Packer mentor believes he will prove valuable almost from the start of the season...LAMBEAU IS PLEASED: The Packers brought their second week of practice to lose with Coach Lambeau well pleased at their progress. Several heavy workouts have been held, despite the heat of the last two days, and the players responded splendidly. Much of the individual attention given by the coaches this week involved the ends. Don Hutson, the famed pass receiver who was the National league's most valuable player last season, came in for considerable action, and appeared to have lost none of the spark and skill he had last year. Larry Craig is the only other veteran end on the squad. First-year men are Joel Mason, six-footer from Western State college, and Earl Ohlgren, six-foot, 2 1/2 inch giant form the University of Minnesota. The squad will entrain for Brooklyn next Thursday, and is to remain in the east until after the Labor day exhibition in Baltimore against the Washington Redskins...CONCERNED ABOUT ARMY: Coach Lambeau and his staff of assistants, Line Coach Red Smith and Backfield Coach Eddie Kotal, already are deep in the problem of what to do about the All-Army team. The Packers play this team, said to be one of the greatest football squads ever assembled, at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sept. 13. News from Camp Cooke, where the army team is in training, is nothing to cause the Packers to take this outfit lightly. The team is fortified with college stars at every position, and Major Wallace Wade, the coach, is considered a man who can get them into top playing form in short order.

PACKERS FIRST TO USE HILLTOP STADIUM TURF

AUG 22 (Milwaukee) - First to test the velvety new turf at the Marquette university stadium will be the Western Army All-Stars and the Green Bay Packers in their game for the benefit of the Army relief fund on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13.

GRID DODGERS FACE TEST IN OPENER

AUG 23 (Brooklyn) - The initial kickoff the 1942 football season in the metropolitan area will take place on Saturday when the Brooklyn Dodgers engage the Green Bay Packers at Ebbets Field at 6:15 p.m. It will be the only appearance of the season of Curly Lambeau's husky young men from the north country in the Flatbush arena. Reports from the training camp at Princeton quote Mike Getto as well pleased with the progress his squad has made during their workouts to date. As he stepped in to take the place of Dr. Jock Sutherland, now a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, Getto had the good fortune to find one or more veterans at each position, among them Perry Schwartz and Eddie Rucinski, ends; Bruiser Kinard and Walter Merrill, tackles; George Kinard and Art Jocher, guards; Tom Robertson, center; Rhoten Shetley and Wendell Butcher, at quarter; Merlyn Condit and Dean McAdams, halfbacks; Pug Manders and Tugboat Jones, fullbacks. In addition, several of the recruits have shown fine promise. These include Bernie Weiner and Bernie Kapitansky, both Brooklyn boys at guard; Dick Shellogg at tackle, Don Eliason and Joe Tofil, a couple of rangy ends, tipping the beam at better than 200 pounds; Walter Fedora and Hal McCullough, two flashy backs; Bob Gifford, a stocky blocking back, and Jim Lankas, hard-plunging fullback...FACE TOUGH GOING: Getto and his staff have been working diligently through two practice sessions daily in bringing the squad up to good physical condition, and drilling the newcomers in their assignments under the Sutherland style of play. They realize that their charges will be up against a tough test in tackling the Packers. Coach Curly Lambeau, too, has a good return of veteran players and several recruits, whose work has been highly promising. Among the veterans, who are again wearing Packer uniforms, are the famous forward passing combination, Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson, who have been working together for four years; Bill Lee and Buford (Baby) Ray, giant tackles; Charles (Buckets) Goldenberg, who is starting his 10th season at guard; Russ Letlow, his running mate at the other guard position; and Andy Uram, former Minnesota flash at halfback.

PACKER MEN SHINE IN SCRIMMAGE

AUG 24 (Green Bay) - Coach Curly Lambeau's wish for a spirited, hard-fighting team this season, in order to help offset the loss of a wealth of veteran material to the armed services, seemed on the way toward realization as the Packer squad engaged in a lively scrimmage Saturday morning. It was evident that much work remains to be done before the exhibition contest at Brooklyn Saturday, but Coach Lambeau admitted he was pleased with the progress of the squad. Bystanders also expressed enthusiastic reactions. The scrimmage closed the second week of practice for the Packers. Every player participated with the exception of Tex Hinte, the new end from the University of Pittsburgh who arrived only Friday to sign his contract. Hinte was in uniform, however, and took part in the preliminary calisthenics. The score was a 21 to 21 deadlock between the Whites and Greens. Although there was some passing, the combination of a hard-rushing line by both teams and a wet, slippery ball resulted in a running game being featured. Andy Uram, now in his fifth season as a halfback for the Packers, plunged across the goal line twice for White touchdowns. But the most spectacular play was a 72-yard scoring sprint for the same team by Ted Fritsch, the promising rookie brought by Backfield Coach Eddie Kotal from Central State Teachers college in Stevens Point...VETERANS CROSS LINE: Three veterans, Don Hutson, Cecil Isbell and Chuck Sample, scored the touchdowns for the Green squad. Fritsch attempted the only field goal, and his boot of 45 yards against the wind just missed bringing a three-point margin for his team. Starting in the backfield for the Whites were Fritsch, fullback; Ben Starrett, a rookie from St. Mary's as blocking back; and Joe Laws and Tony

Canadeo, halfbacks. In the line were Joel Mason and John Stonebraker, ends; Bill Lee and Baby Ray, tackles; Bill Kuusisto and Pete Tinsley, guards; and Bob Flowers, center. A completely veteran backfield started for the Greens, including Isbell, Lou Brock, Larry Craig and Bob Kahler. The linemen included Hutson and Earl (Swede) Ohlgren, ends; Ernie Pannell and Paul Berezney, tackles; Buckets Goldenberg and Russell Letlow, guards; and Charlie Brock, center...PLAYERS ARE BATTERED: The scrimmage was rough enough for a regulation game. Kahler was knocked cold and had to be carried from the field, and Charlie Brock went out early with a bad shoulder. Various other gridders were treated for cut fingers, bloody noses and cuts on their legs. Letlow, a guard for the Greens, fought as fiercely as anybody on the field. In the dressing room afterwards he revealed that somebody had poked his finger into his right eye during a pileup, "and that got me a little sore." Big, genial Baby Ray, although uninjured, was a much-battered lineman, and Pannell had the start of a beautiful shiner besides sundry scratches and bruises...STARRETT IS COMER: Starrett looked like a comer at blocking back. The fullbacks, notably Fritsch, showed up in good form, and the ends did excellent work. First-year men, along with Canadeo at quarterback, were given a special treatment Sunday morning by Assistant Coach Kotal. Regular practice sessions were scheduled for today, Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday morning the squad leaves for Brooklyn for its opening game, and will remain in the east until the Labor day exhibition with the Washington Redskins at Baltimore.

PACKERS FIND GOLF ENJOYABLE WAY OF GETTING INTO CONDITION

AUG 25 (Green Bay) - It is unlikely that any members of the current Packer squad will make their living playing golf when their football days are over, although a number of them work pretty hard at the game and a few of them turn in consistently low scores. A little investigation discloses that Cecil Isbell, Pete Tinsley and Don Hutson are the leaders in this sideline sport, although Tinsley modestly disclaims any such distinction. Isbell recently shot a 74 at the Oneida Golf and Riding Club, and Hutson's best there has been a 78, but the stellar end has registered a 74 up at Maxwelton Braes. Tinsley, who has played the game ever since his high school days and has a brother, Dave, who is a golf pro at Charlotte, hasn't done so much golfing this season and reports that his best effort was an 80 at the Town and Country club, although other members of the squad and Pro Art Schlueter there regard him as the best golfer on the football squad. In case you're wondering how we got onto this subject, it might be well to mention that Coach Curly Lambeau regards golf as one of the best methods of getting into condition, and encourages his charges to play the game all through August. Grid drills are limited to one a day to enable the players to spend a lot of time on golf courses. Golf is a much more enjoyable method of getting into condition than calisthenics, so the gridders take full advantage of the idea and toil daily on the links throughout the early training season. We went out to question Schlueter the other day, seeking some firsthand information on the Packers' game, and learned among other things that Charley Brock had just come off the course with a birdie three on No. 9. He's played quite a lot all summer, unlike Lou Brock, who reports that he's been too busy on his Kansas stock farm this year to tour any golf courses...CATTLE OR LINKS 'SCORES': The conversation became a little involved, since Lou is enthusiastic about his cattle and would much rather discuss them than his golf scores. It developed that the 46 he mentioned was the number of head of stock he bought this year, and not the total on a golf scoreboard. Actually, he goes around in the low 40's, and would like to play more than he does. Schlueter reported that Bill Lee could easily be the longest hitter among the golfing Packers, if he could straighten out a severe slice that threatens more of the neighborhood around the Town and Country course. Bill claims another championship as well - or rather Schlueter claims it for him. In the group of lads that heckle their golfing companions, the big Alabaman is a standout and his ribbing is a tough mental hazard for any opponent...GOLDENBERG PLAYS TWO: Buckets Goldenberg is another of the more enthusiastic golfers, although his mantel will probably never be piled high with trophies won on the links. All of the Packers get in their golf at Town and Country except Hutson, who has been a member at Oneida for two seasons, and Isbell, who belongs to the Manitowoc club and plays at Oneida under exchange privileges. "They're great guys to have around," Schlueter concluded.

RED SMITH BUSY, BUT HAS TIME TO TALK

AUG 25 (Green Bay) - Broaching the subject of the Packers, Coach Red Smith asserted that Green Bay' first team this season will be better than last year's, with both the line and the backfield considerably faster. "Cleveland is the real darkhorse of the NFL this year," Smith continued. He pointed out that the Chicago Bears, while strong, probably won't be as powerful as last season. They have lost fullback Norm Standlee, halfback George McAfee, end Richard Plasman, end Ken Kavanaugh and guard Aldo Forte to the armed forces, and Smith understood that several others, including guard Danny Fortmann and fullback Bill Osmanski are likely to leave soon after the All-Star game Friday. "The Chicago Bears are weak on pass defense, and that's something that isn't going to hurt us any," he observed.

PACKERS LEAVE CITY THURSDAY

AUG 26 (Green Bay) - Coach Curly Lambeau and his Green Bay Packers will sneak out of town Thursday morning, and "the less said the better." Those are the words of Lambeau, and he means it "because the really big business in our minds is the Western Army All-Star and Packer classic in Milwaukee." That Milwaukee fracas will be played Sunday, Sept. 13 in Marquette stadium. "Of course, we're not going out East for a joy ride. We want to win those two games, even though they won't count in the league standings. But we are looking forward to that battle in Milwaukee. I could talk for days about the power of Wallace Wade's club," the coach added. Before allowing Lambeau to ramble about the Army event, it might be announced that the Bays tangle with the Brooklyn Dodgers there Saturday and with the Washington Redskins in Baltimore Labor day. Lambeau plans to take his entire squad, although Line Coach Red Smith will be left home in a cooperative effort to bring more baseball glory to Green Bay. His Bluejays are defending champions in the Wisconsin State league. The Packers closed up their workshop near City stadium today, and were ordered to get a good night's rest before leaving on the long train ride. Pictures of the 1941 Brooklyn Dodger-Packer game were shown at a special meeting at the Northland hotel at 9 o'clock this morning, after which the team went out to practice until noon. Last minute instructions, the valuable blackboard talks and a hundred other things will be discussed by Lambeau at a meeting at the Northland at 7 o'clock tonight...BABY RAY AT END?: The Packers went through their last stiff workout on Wednesday morning, and Lambeau was most pleased - he discovered a new end in the position of Baby Ray. At any rate, Ray brought the best crack of the day when Lambeau said, after watching Baby snare a pass, "can't figure out why we were worried about the shortage of ends." Speaking about ends, the new boy from Pitt, Tex Hinte, looked good in his second workout on Packer plays. Just to show he was serious, Hinte made a couple of special turns around the practice field after the drills. Most of Wednesday's practice was confined to running and passing plays with the chief stress on the backs. The program developed into a "mystery ball" session on several of the spinner plays in which the whereabouts of the ball was somewhat of a mystery. At least, Lambeau said "those plays aren't successful until you don't know where the ball is."...BOB KAHLER HAS SPEED: Bob Kahler, the Nebraska man who starred with the Packer farm team in Long Island, worked in well at a halfback spot with Cecil Isbell; Lou Brock at blocking quarterback and Larry Craig at blocking quarterback. Kahler isn't only proving to be a great runner, but also a topnotch pass receiver. He's one of the fastest man on the team. The usual race down the field closed the workout. Backs Tony Canadeo and Craig decided to put on their own show, and the result was a dead heat after a 100-yard sprint down the field...BUHLER QUITS PRO BALL: Lambeau announced today that Larry Buhler, former Packer back, will not join the squad this season as expected. He has decided to quit professional football in favor of his farm work in Minnesota. Art Albrecht, Manitowoc center who played at the University of Wisconsin, has left the team and is taking his physical examination for the Army.

LUEBKE AND SEIBOLD JOIN CHICAGO CARDS

AUG 26 (Waukesha) - Henry Luebke, 280 pound tackle, and Champ Seibold, 240 pound tackle, joined the Chicago Cardinals at camp here Tuesday. Luebke, biggest man on the roster, was graduated from Iowa in 1941 and was with Buffalo last year. Seibold was with the Green Bay Packers for seven seasons.

GRID FLOCK ENDS HEAVY WORK FOR PACKER CONTEST

AUG 26 (Brooklyn) - Except for signal drills and dummy scrimmaging, the Brooklyn Dodgers have completed their preparation for the meeting with the Green Bay Packers at Ebbets Field on Saturday night. A full day of lively activities marked the practice session yesterday, ending with an hour of robust scrimmaging between the Reds and the Blues, otherwise the veterans and recruits. The former won by two touchdowns to one. As a result of this heavy session the coaches announced that a full team of veterans would start against the Packers. Manders, McAdams, Condit, and either Shetley or Butcher will start in the backfield, with the line made up of Schwartz and Rucinski at ends, Bruiser Kinard and Merrill at tackles, George Kinard and Jocher and Weiner at guards, and Robertson, center.

TEAM LEAVING TODAY FOR EASTERN BATTLES

AUG 27 (Green Bay) - Packing a limited number of plays, the Green Bay Packers left today on an eastern excursion which should reveal the whos, wheres, and whats about the 1942 Green and Gold. They'll battle the Brooklyn Dodgers in a twilight contest at Ebbets field starting at 5:15 (Central War Time) Saturday evening, and then remain in the east for another exhibition contest with the Washington Redskins in Baltimore Labor day. The squad will get back to Green Bay Sept. 8, when preparations will be lunched for the Western Army All-Star event in Milwaukee Sept. 13. Coach Curly Lambeau and Don Hutson, the Packers' sensational pass snatcher, will drop off at Chicago where Lambeau will attend a meeting of National league football coaches to discuss rule changes. United States Army officials will be on hand to settle the rules setup for army-pro games this fall. Hutson will be honored before the largest crowd in the history of the annual College All-Star football classic at Soldier field Friday night when he will be awarded the Joe Carr memorial trophy. Hutson was selected the most valuable player for 1941 shortly after being voted the fifth greatest player in any sport by the Associated Press. More than 101,000 persons will watch the proceedings involving Hutson as well as the Chicago Bear-Star session. Hutson will be accompanied by Lambeau. Lambeau received word this morning that Art Albrecht, Manitowoc center, has been sworn in the Naval aviation service and will remain with the team until called. He arrived in Green Bay this morning from Chicago where he passed his physical examination Wednesday afternoon. Getting back to the business of the day, it might be reported that the Packers are going East with only a "few" plays to memorize...LAPSES ON DEFENSE: The Wednesday workout revealed a large number of lapses, particularly on defense with Brooklyn plays. Working a six-man line with a two-three and sometimes a two-two-one backfield setup, the "Dodgers" completed a number of long passes and several short ones. One defensive group included Ted Fritsch-Charley Brock, Cecil Isbell-Andy Uram and Hutson, while another included Chuck Sample- Bob Flowers, Tony Canadeo-Ben Starrett and Joe Laws. A sharp tackling session for backs only featured some bonecrusher running by Starrett, a 220-pound blocking back, who hits like a fullback. In about 15 attempts with the ball, only one tackler, Ted Fritsch, was able to bring him down. Lambeau said that he may give Starrett some ball carrying assignments in the eastern games...TOM BUSHBY RELEASED: Before leaving today, Lambeau

announced the release of back Tom Bushby. Out of the game for several years, Bushby had considerable trouble. With the exception of Charley Brock, who is suffering with a bruised shoulder, the Packer squad is in excellent physical condition. Other minor hurts include: sprained ankles, Ernie Pannell, John Stonebraker; bruised foot, Bob Flowers; head cold, Russ Letlow; bruised elbow, Bill Kuusisto; sprained thumb, Baby Ray; bruised hand, Buckets Goldenberg. None of the injuries will keep these players under wraps, although Brock's shoulder will be given considerable attention. Green Bay will arrive in New York at 9:30 Friday morning and headquarter at the Hotel New Yorker. They'll push off for Baltimore at 9 o'clock Monday morning and stay at the Lord Baltimore hotel. Arrangements have not been completed for training quarters in Baltimore.

BOOST BROOKLYN SPIRIT GETS LIFT FROM FOOTBALL FLOCK

AUG 27 (Princeton, NJ) - It is one of the ironies of professional football that seldom does the home team have any local talent on display over whom the subway alumni can whoop it up just as they did in the rah-rah days. The way the league draft operates, it's a hit and miss proposition that a borough ace will wind up with Brooklyn, and exceptions such as Jack Grossman and Si Titus are few and far between. This year's Dodger team, which opens shop Saturday in the cool of evening against the Green Bay Packers at Ebbets Field, gives the homegrown gridiron clientele something to crow about, however. If Titus, the Brooklyn prep ace, is gone to the wars, then there will be more than adequate replacements in the persons of Hal McCullough and a pair of Brooklyn Bernies fighting it out for guard, Bernie Kapitansky and Bernie Weiner...BROOKLYNITE BY MARRIAGE: Weiner is a veterinarian by profession and a Brooklynite by marriage. He spent his days as a football apprentice at Kansas State, where he made the All-Big Six teams as both a guard and tackle, and when he became older and wiser he forsook the prairies of Brooklyn. He's 23 years od age, 5-foot-11, and scales 220 pounds from bow to stern. Popular with his mates at the team's Hun School training camp here, because he has one of the few autos in camp - with petrol, too - he also gets along famously with Coach Mike Getto and may win a starting berth. The other Bernie, which is Kapitansky - was a captain of the rugby team at L.I.U., whither he drifted after starring at New Utrecht in football. When L.I.U. forsook football, Bernie drifted to Alabama, but did not play there. A 21-year old, 213 pounder, measuring six feet one inch, he is something of a success story, because he came to the Dodgers by correspondence school, so to speak. He wrote Getto asking for a tryout, got it, and bids fair to make tood. Hal McCullough of Boys and Cornell needs no introduction. Were it not for his slight build - he weighs only 173 - he'd be pressing Rhoten Shetley, Wendell Butcher, Dean McAdams and Merlyn Condit for an opening in the backfield but, despite this, has already impressed. Hal is a triple-threat man in every sense of the expression, and, after a little seasoning in pro ball - which differs in many respects from the college brand - is expected to become an ace.

MORE WORKERS ARE NEEDED FOR PACKER TICKET DRIVE SEPT. 10

AUG 27 (Green Bay) - This is not a routine plug for the sale of Packer season tickets. This is no time for anything but all-out action. The Packers have reached a critical stage in their history, and the continued generous support of the fans is of vital importance this year. The Green Bay Association of Commerce is alert to the financial pitfalls that lie ahead for sports enterprises in these times. Wishing to support the Packers in a material way, this organization of businessmen is going to undertake a citywide season ticket campaign Thursday, Sept. 10...MORE WORKERS NEEDED: There has been a gratifying response for volunteer salesmen, but in order to do the job properly many more are needed. The men are asked to devote the entire day to the campaign if possible, but it is realized that many can spend only a half-day or even less. In any event, their services will be greatly appreciated. It is not only businessmen who are asked to take a hand in this immense project. Men not in any way connected with the Association of Commerce also are urged to take part, and women fans are wanted just as much as men. Numerous young men and women just out of school may find it possible to join the corps of salesmen. Those desiring to volunteer their services are requested to telephone the Association of Commerce office at Adams 4705. They also may contact any of the three men in charge of the campaign - Don Fairbairn, the association's publicity and public relations chairman; President William Servotte, or Secretary Earl S. Ward. A few days before the campaign, an efficient sales organization will be set up. The salesmen will be formed into several teams, with a captain and assistant for each...PLAN KICKOFF BREAKFAST: A "kickoff" breakfast will be held on the morning of the campaign at the Beaumont hotel. Final instructions will be issued, although all workers will have been given details by personal letter. The sales drive will be climaxed by a dinner in the evening, and valuable souvenir prizes will be awarded to the most successful workers. An autographed Packer football will go to the pair of workers selling the greatest number of tickets, while an autographed, framed photograph of the 1942 Packer squad will be given to each member of the team turning in the best report. Prices for the Packer season tickets are scaled from $3.30 to $8.25, allowing a real saving over the prices charged for single admissions. The season tickets cover the three home games this year, including the Chicago Bears Sept. 27, the Cleveland Rams Oct. 18, and the Chicago Cardinals Nov. 1.

ARMY FEATURES GREAT LINEMEN

AUG 27 (Pasadena, CA) - The bugles have blown and the drums beaten for the crack ball carriers who toting leather for Major Wallace Wade's All-Army football team - and rightly so, too. But as the Western division squad roared through its final days of preseason practice on the tradition-soaked turf of the Rose Bowl, it became more and more obvious that it was the great batch of linemen whom Wade was counting on most to convoy the carriers to victory in the five games the All-Army team will play for Army Emergency relief. The Kimbroughs, Scotts and Davises will do their part when the soldiers take the field Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13, against the Green Bay Packers at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee. They can all carry the mail. But the development most heartwarming to Wade is the progress of the mobile, hard-hitting line he is molding...LINE IS IMPRESSIVE: From end to end, the big soldier line has been impressive. Ends like Dempsey of Duke, Young of Brooklyn, and Speedie of Utah; tackles like Dickey of Texas A. and M., Manzo of Boston college, Benghauser of Pitt, and Starvinski of Penn State; guards like Fritz of Vanderbilt, Routt of Texas A. and M., Petro of Pitt and Battista of Florida, and centers like Gude of Vanderbilt, Gillis of West Point, Hauser of Texas A. and M., and Kodros of Michigan, each would be impressive individually. But put them together, shake them down into a unit and you really have something. "These boys are all good," remarked Rae Crowther, the right bower of George Munger at Penn, who is handling the line here, "but the thing that has convinced me is the way they are working together. Too often all-star linemen are inclined to be prima donnas. They think they can get by on their press clippings. But not these kids. They've all been working like beavers."...HAS BEEN TERRIFIC: Bear-Tracks Hauser, of the Aggies, has been really terrific. So have his Aggie teammates, Dickey and Routt. As the opening kickoff draws on apace, it seems evident that Wade is going to count heavily on Texas products. At present it seems likely that nine Texans will be in the opening lineup, including the mighty backfield unit of John Kimbrough, Jim Thomason, Marion Pugh, and Bill Conatser, who two years ago were spreading destruction across the Texas prairies in Aggie uniforms.

CITE DON HUTSON AT ALL-STAR TILT TONIGHT

AUG 28 (Green Bay) - Some 101,000 pairs of eyes will be focused on Green Bay's Don Hutson when he receives the Joe Carr Memorial Trophy shortly before the kickoff for the Chicago Bear-College All-Star football meeting at Soldier's field in Chicago tonight. The presentation will be made by Elmer Layden, commissioner of professional football, about 8:15. Hutson receives the trophy (in fact, two trophies - an immense three-foot traveling trophy to keep for a year, and a smaller reproduction for his very own) for being selected as the Most Valuable Player in the NFL last season. Coach Curly Lambeau of the Packers will attend the game with Hutson, while the rest of the team rides east for a pair of exhibition games with the Brooklyn Dodgers Saturday evening at 5:15 (CWT) and with the Washington Redskins in Baltimore Labor day. Hutson and Lambeau will fly to Brooklyn after the Star contest...SCOUT CHICAGO BEARS: After the presentation and the kickoff, Lambeau and Hutson will get down to more serious business - scouting the Chicago Bears who invade Green Bay Sept. 27 for the teams' first league encounter. The Packer representatives undoubtedly will see plenty because Bear pilot George Halas expects to cut everything loose in an effort to whip Coach Bob Zuppke's Stars. Also on the same program with Hutson, by the way, will be A.A. Stagg, who will present the Chicago Tribune trophy to George Franck, former Minnesota halfback who was voted the most valuable player to the All-Stars in the 1941 game. Stagg coached University of Chicago football teams for 41 years and is still active in the profession at the College of the Pacific. The Packer team, which left here at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, is due to arrive in New York at 9:30 Friday morning and will stop at the Hotel New Yorker. The squad is scheduled to leave at 9 o'clock Monday morning for Baltimore...BROADCAST DODGER GAME: The Packer-Brooklyn contest will be broadcast over radio station WTMJ, with Russ Winnie describing the play from the field. The Packers will get back to Green Bay Sept. 7 and start workouts for the tough battle with the Western Army All-Stars at Milwaukee Sept. 13.

GRID DODGERS READY TO ROLL

AUG 28 (Brooklyn) - Those football Dodgers, who promise to be some pumpkins on their own Ebbets Field reservation this fall, break into public view tomorrow evening, battling the Green Bay Packers at 6:30. More than 25,000 fans are expected to open the football season, although the thermometer insists it can't be so. This year's Dodgers haven't been shoved around as they usually are on the National league schedule, so perhaps they won't be pushed around as much on the field, either. Tomorrow's exhibition game precedes by almost a month their league battle in Buffalo (Sept. 27); after that, they take an Oct. 4 date in Detroit, and come home to six straight Sunday battles at Ebbets Field. Although the regular season is a long way off. Mike Getto says he has his warriors ready. Whether they are ready for the veteran Packers, however, is another thing. The Green Bay gang handed the Dodgers an unholy walloping a year ago in Milwaukee, and I won't forget that one in a hurry...MINUS SOME TOP PLAYERS: Of course Curly Lambeau, the Green Bay's boss, has lost some valuable operatives like Clarke Hinkle, the ramming fullback and punting fool (he's at Manhattan Beach with the Coast Guard now) and a flock of good ends, including Ray Riddick and Harry Jacunski, the former Fordhams; but the genesis of that Dodger beating last fall was a Cecil (I pitch 'em) Isbell and Don (I catch 'em) Hutson pass combination. This is the deadliest combination in the league. Isbell has more stuff on the ball than Wyatt; Hutson is a deadpan receiver with a double shift and terrific burst of speed that requires two men to cover him. the smarties say. Isbell completed 117 passes in 206 pitches last year, and Hutson caught 58 passes which should give you an idea. The Dodgers have a good rugged club with

AUGUST 28TH GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE

some doubt about their reserve strength. Pug Manders, Merlyn Condit, Wendell Butcher and Dean McAdams give our bunch as good a first-rating backfield as you'll find. Mike Getto has had them doing their homework in his notebook system, and they all know their plays. Ace Parker, of course, will be missed. But McAdams, and sometimes Condit, can throw that ball. And a lot of local fans who say Boys High Hal McCullough run to fame at Cornell are anxious to see how he does against these rough, tough pros. You can't start against much tougher than the Green Bays!

PACKERS FACE DODGERS IN EXHIBITION KICKOFF

AUG 29 (Green Bay) - Green Bay's professional football Packers and the Brooklyn Dodgers go to bat for the first time this season in an exhibition game at Ebbets field in Brooklyn starting at 5:15 (CWT). Coach E.L. (Curly) Lambeau, if he is able to arrive in time for the game, will uncover a lineup studded with bright rookies who are expected to help the club considerably this season. They are headed by Ted Fritsch, promising fullback understudy to Lou Brock, who was converted from a halfback to full. Incidentally, Lambeau and Don Hutson, Packer end, spent some anxious moments in Chicago late Friday night. They were to take a plane to Brooklyn after the Chicago Bear-College All-Star game but all planes were grounded because of a heavy fog...CEILING STILL LOW: The ceiling over Chicago was still low this morning, although a plane leaving Chicago at noon today would get them to Brooklyn in less than six hours which is just a few minutes before the game which starts at 6:15 (EWT). Russ Winnie will give

which starts at 6:15 (EWT). Russ Winnie will give a play-by-play description of the game over radio station WTMJ at 5:15, Green Bay time. Winnie will be at the field. The Packers are in for a hot time in Brooklyn tonight, take it from Dan Topping, Dodger owner, who spent a good share of his time at the National league office bragging about his team and its strength. Topping, by the way, was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Marine Friday and expects to leave for duty in about two weeks...PLAY ARMY ALL-STARS: The Packers, quartered at the Hotel New Yorker, will leave New York at 9 o'clock Monday morning for Baltimore where they'll tangle with the Washington Redskins Labor day. Lambeau and his charges expected to be back in Green Bay Sept. 8 to start intensive practice for the strong Western Army All-Stars at Marquette stadium in Milwaukee Sept. 13. Although Lambeau is undecided about his starting lineup, it is a good bet that Don Hutson and John Stonebraker will be at ends; Bill Lee and Ernie Pannell at tackles; Buckets Goldenberg and Pete Tinsley at guards; Charley Brock at center; Larry Craig at blocking quarterback; Cecil Isbell and Joe Laws at halves; and Lou Brock at fullback. Ben Starrett, the hard-hitting blocking back who runs like a fullback, may see plenty of action. The big St. Mary's boy was told that he may get some running assignments after he literally swept through his teammates in a tackling session last week...KAHLER DUE FOR DUTY: Another boy tagged for plenty of work is Bob Kahler, the Nebraska lad who toiled for Long Island last year. Tackles Fred Vant Hull and Paul Berezney; guards Jim Finley and Mike Bucchianeri; and centers Art Albrecht and Bob Flowers are the rookies who get their baptism in the line. Still short of ends, Lambeau is expected to give Stonebraker, Joel Mason and Earl Ohlgren plenty of work. Lambeau is still looking for more ends, and believes that a new end may be a necessity before the NFL season opens.

JOCK AND HINKLE TO SEE DODGERS PLAY

AUG 29 (Brooklyn) - When the Brooklyn Dodgers and Green Bay Packers line up for the kickoff at Ebbets Field this evening, those present will include two who figured prominently in the activities of the two teams last year. They are Lt. Commander John Bain Sutherland of the U.S. Navy and Lt. Clarke Hinkle of the U.S. Coast Guard. Dr. Sutherland is here on a short leave from Washington. Lieutenant Hinkle came up from Manhattan Beach, where he is stationed at present.

FOOTBALL DODGERS SOUNDS '42 REVEILLE

AUG 29 (Brooklyn) - The 1942 football season will get underway locally at Ebbets Field this evening when the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Green Bay Packers clash in a contest starting at 6:15 p.m. It will be the first twilight grid contest ever staged in the city. This prying off of the lid will likely find local grid fans looking onto a scene in which the starting performers are mostly veterans, familiar from former years. However, when it comes to replacement, both Mike Getto and Curly Lambeau will have to resort largely to recruits. Both squads are about equally divided between veterans and recruits...TEAM IN PINK OF CONDITION: Latest advices from headquarters of the two teams are that both are in top condition and ready for the fray. The Packers, after their arrival yesterday morning, went through a light workout in the afternoon. Coach Getto finished off training work at the Princeton camp yesterday, too, and brought the Dodgers into two this morning. The Dodgers have never been able to take the measure of the Packers in their past meetings and they fully appreciate the tough task ahead of them. Moreover, the Dodgers are anxious to start the season on the right foot.

GRID DODGERS PRY OPEN SEASON TODAY AGAINST PACKERS

AUG 30 (Brooklyn) - The long-walked, ear-tickling plunk of pinkie against pigskin - heralding the start of another football season - did not join the chorus of crickets at Ebbets Field last night in the dusk of the evening. The part was dark, stands were vacant, and the bruisers chafing for action had to soothe their spirits with sleep as they stood by for a clear day today. Old Man Weather poured cold water on the scene of action and so the Dodgers and Green Bay Packers collide instead this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. And what was scheduled to have been the first twilight grid game in the history of this - or any - city was washed away. It's a cinch the Dodgers will try just as hard - if not harder - to beat the Packers even though it's not a league clash because: 1. Brooklyn has never emerged victorious over Green Bay in all the long years of their grid competition, and 2. The boys are out to inaugurate Mike Getto's career as head coach by handing him a winning football at the end of the contest. The Packers didn't shed a tear at the news of the postponement. They were a bit tired after their long ride eastward and an added day's rest will probably find Don Hutson in finer fettle for those gallops up and down the field after snatching those passes from Cecil Isbell. Although the two teams will start an army of veterans, recruits by the ton are slated to see plenty of action. Brooklynites are especially interested in seeing how Hal McCullough, the ex-Boys and Cornell ace, can go in pro ranks. Talk is that his 173 pounds won't stand the shock. But Getto merely smiles mysteriously and talks of other matters when broached on this subject. He may well have something up his sleeve on this score. Time (2:30 p.m.) will tell.

LAMBEAU FAVORS DRAFT OF PLAYERS IN APRIL; TEAM BREAKS UP

DEC 8 (Green Bay) - Green Bay's Packers - minus 28 pints of blood - officially broke up today, but Coach Curly Lambeau remained in the swing of things which may decide the future of the Wisconsin entry and the NFL. Back from a blood donating stay in Milwaukee with his Packers Monday, Lambeau announced that the league will hold its most important meeting in history Monday after the Washington-Chicago Bear playoff in Washington Sunday afternoon. The principal business, and the very lifeline of the circuit, will be the 1943 player draft. Opinion id divided on when to hold the draft - either at next Monday's meeting or at the league's annual session in April. Lambeau announced that he is in favor of postponing the draft until April when he hopes the league will have a better line on the war and the possibility of continuing plans for the 1943 season. Like the baseball leagues, the football wheel expects to operate in 1943 and all proposals will be discussed with that in mind. Judging by the results of the 1941 draft, the league will face a difficult task. As an example, the Packers drafted 20 players at the Chicago meeting , and only one - Bob Ingalls, Michigan center - was able to play. All of the others went into the service or took defense jobs...MANY ARE MARRIED: On the brighter side is the fact that a good share of the 1942 players are married and have children. About a month ago, a survey of the Packer squad revealed that 23 out of the 30 players are married and 18 of these 23 have children. Eight members of the 1942 Green Bay team, which now has 28 players, are planning to go into the service, leaving Lambeau with a squad of 20. Sixteen members of the 1941 team are working for Uncle Same. Including drafted players and Packers of 1942, 1941 and 1940, the Packers are represented by nearly 60 men in various branches of the United States armed forces. The league has contributed nearly 300 players to Uncle Sam. Lambeau will be interviewed over radio station WGN at 6:15 Thursday evening. He expects to arrive in Washington Saturday morning. Green Bay's last official act after beating Pittsburgh, 24-21, at Milwaukee last Sunday was donating blood to the Red Cross at Milwaukee Monday noon. The blood will be sent to distant battle fronts. Most of the Packers wanted to give more than a pint, but the nurses said "nix". Pete Tinsley, veteran guard, made the statement that "you can take a gallon from me", and most of the boys seconded the motion...COACHES DONATE, TOO: Mrs. Ed Halline of Milwaukee, formerly Miss Adris Martin of Green Bay, made arrangements for the Packers' blood donation. Her husband is a former De Pere resident. Lambeau and Assistant Coaches Eddie Kotal and Red Smith also donated blood. Don Hutson, the Packers' brilliant end, was officially acclaimed today as the National league's scoring champion for 1942, with records that probably will stand longer than any others in the book. Hutson caught 17 touchdown passes, placekicked 33 extra points - both records - and added a field goal for a total of 138 points, also a record. His record output last season was 95 points. Hutson also added to numerous pass receiving marks, many of which he set in 1941. Although official word has not been released from the National league office, Cecil Isbell is holder of the 1942 passing championship, his second in two years. He needed only five completions to pass Sammy Baugh of Washington last Sunday, and picked up 17 out of 31 attempts to make it stick.

HUTSON IS UNANIMOUS ALL-PRO CHOICE

DEC 8 (New York) - High-scoring Don Hutson, the veteran Green Bay end who broke one or more records every time he caught a pass this season, was the only unanimous choice for the All-League professional football team selected by the Associated Press and newspaper sportswriters. This former University of Alabama wingman could easily qualify as an all-time, all-league performer on practically anyone's ballot and many regard him also as the greatest star in professional football history. No rival team has been able to build a successful defense against his pass snatching abilities. Danny Fortmann, the Chicago Bears guard, and Sid Luckman, Bears quarterback, trailed Hutson closely, being named on all but one ballot...THREE TEAMS UNPLACED: The thundering Bears marched off with five all-league positions, while the Washington Redskins took three. Three teams - the Chicago Cardinals, Detroit and Philadelphia - failed to place a man on either the first or second teams. In the All-League backfield along with Luckman are Bill Dudley, Pittsburgh, and Sammy Baugh and Andy Farkas of Washington. The line has George Wilson, Bears, at the other end, Riley Matheson, Cleveland, at the other guard, Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, Bears, at center, and Willie Wilkin, Washington, and Lee Artoe, Bears, at tackles. Dudley, an All-American halfback last year with the University of Virginia, was the only rookie to make the team. Repeaters from the 1941 All-League team were Hutson, Fortmann, Luckman, Wilkin and Turner...THE SECOND TEAM: Here's the second team or reserve eleven: Bob Masterson, Washington, and Perry Schwartz, Brooklyn, ends; Bruiser Kinard, Brooklyn, and Chester Adams, Cleveland, tackles; Bill Edwards, New York, and Charles Goldenberg, Green Bay, guards; Charles Cherundolo, Pittsburgh, center; Tuffy Leemans, New York, Cecil Isbell, Green Bay, Merlyn Condit, Brooklyn, and Gary Famiglietti, Bears, backs. This was the first time in many years that the name of Mel Hein of New York was missing. This great center, playing his 12th year of pro ball, was outvoted by Turner and Cherundolo.

AIRMEN LEARNS FINE POINTS OF END PLAY FROM PACKER GRAD

DEC 8 (Jacksonville) - When a Jacksonville Naval Air station end streaks down the field to take a pass or breaks through to spill a ball carrier, it's a safe bet to assume that he has leaned to do his job better because he is being coached by Lieutenant (jg) Milt Gantenbein. End coach on the staff headed by Lieutenant Hobbs Adams, formerly of Southern California and Kansas State, Lieutenant Gantenbein is a veteran of ten years' experience with the famous Green Bay Packers and one year of coaching experience - with Manhattan in 1941. After his long career with the Packers, likeable and hard working Lieutenant Gantenbein signed to assist Herb Kopf at Manhattan college. But as soon as the United States entered the war, the former professional football star, anxious to get back into battle frat, volunteered for duty with the navy and was commissioned in May of this year at Milwaukee..SENT TO ACADEMY: He was sent to the Naval academy in Annapolis for indoctrinational training and then to Jacksonville for duty at the navy's giant aviation center. A pleasant occurrence to him must have been his appointment as end coach for the football season. In addition to duties as a battalion officer, he spends late afternoons working with the football team. Top-flight ends like Kirk Hershey, Cornell and Cleveland Rams; Gene Werkheiser, Dubuque university and Kenosha Cardinals; Bill Chipley, Clemson; Mary O'Hagen, U. of Portland and the New York Giants; and Owen Reeves, Auburn, are all profiting from his experience. A veteran of the professional league, Gantenbein can think back to the early days of pro football. Standout players of the Green Bay club he likes to remember are Cal Hubbard, the 275-pound tackle who now is an American league umpire; Mike Michalske, 210-pound guard, "the best I've ever seen"; Johnny Blood, the unforgettable halfback; Bobby Monnett, streamlined backfield speedster; Clarke Hinkle, dynamic fullback; Verne Lewellen, the best kicker in the league; Red Dunn, great signal calling quarterback, and Bo Molenda and Mac McCrary, ace ball carriers...NAGURSKI WAS BEST: Roughest, toughest and best of all players in the league in the early days in his opinion was the Chicago Bears' powerhouse fullback, Bronko Nagurski. Lieutenant Gantenbein captained the Packers from '35 through '40. A University of Wisconsin graduate, he was signed for pro ball with the Packers by Curly Lambeau immediately after graduation. In Jacksonville, Lieutenant Gantenbein lives with his wife, Vivian Hall, formerly of Green Bay, and their three-year old son, Tad, at 3891 Randall street.

PRO SCORING TITLE WON BY A PACKER

DEC 8 (Chicago) - Don Hutson, the Green Bay Packers' pass grabbing end, was official acclaimed Tuesday as the NFL's scoring champion for 1942, with records which will probably stand longer than any others in the book. Hutson caught 17 touchdown passes and kicked 33 extra points, both records - and added a field goal for a

total of 138 points, also a record. His record output last season was 95 points. The next four places went to the Chicago Bears. Ray McLean posted 54 points for second place, followed by Gary Famiglietti with 48, Frank Maznicki with 45 and Hugh Gallarneau with 42.

PACKER NOTES

DEC 8 (Milwaukee Sentinel-Stoney McGlynn) - One of the peculiarities of sports is that a goodly number of fans believe anything less than a championship represents failure. Sunday night a few of every faithful, those hardy souls who braved Sunday's chilly blasts to see the 1942 Packers close their season against the Pittsburgh Steelers, were talked over the game and its highlights when a sports follower of the fair weather brand interrupted and said, "Well, one thing, I'll bet Curly Lambeau is happy this season is over. Boy, did the Packers take it on the chin!" Whereupon he was promptly set down with a barrage of answers that proved the Packers, despite two defeats at the hands of the Bears, and a tie with the Giants, had anything but an unsuccessful season. Their record was surpassed by only two teams in the league, the undefeated, untied champion Bears, winners of the Western half title, and Washington's Redskins, Eastern champions, who lost but a single game. However, it might be safe to argue that if the Redskins had to meet the Bears twice their record would have included three defeats - not one...TEAM WAS REBUILT: In only one game were the Packers outclassed. That was in the Chicago fray with the Bears. They suffered a bad break early in the game, fought toe to toe from then until the latter part of the second quarter, but then collapsed. That game was a rout, a travesty upon usual Packer football. Considering that the Packers had lost more men to the service than any other club the season cannot be looked upon as anything less than a success. Of course, if everything is measured with the Bears as the yardstick, the season was a flop. But, I ask, who is beating the Bears? I feel Curly and his assistants, Red Smith and Eddie Kotal, should regard 1942 as a success. They rebuilt a team that was wrecked by enlistments and calls to service; they lost all their end candidates; they rebuilt with some players from small colleges and with players who had previously failed to make the pro grade and they came out with a record of eight wins, two defeats and one ties. Finishing with such a record under such adverse conditions, to me, is one of Curly's finest coaching achievements...BAY RECORD CLEAR: Green Bay's record in other respects was of championship caliber. It was the Packers corp. that showed the way to other pro league clubs in the art of staging a charity game for the Army fund. Of all the games played between pro clubs and the army teams the Packer-Western Army Stars fray here last September 13 was the ideal charity game. Because the Packers would not have anything to with the game unless it was played on an out and out charity basis, because they obtained the wholehearted cooperation of Marquette university, which donated the field and many other services, and because the Packers played for mere traveling and hotel expenses, this game has the lowest overhead of any of the games. There was no coordinator booking games in a certain stadium with a percentage of rental, there was no American Legion post taking a cut for promoting the game, and neither did the Packers and Marquette get a cent for services rendered...BEARS TOO GOOD: Now comes Washington's and George Preston Marshall's chance to avenge that 73 to 0 title drubbing they took two years ago. George Preston has hankered for revenge. He could hardly wait for the chance. Now he's got it, the chance, I mean. Not that the Skins figure to do much about it. Weather conditions right, the Skins can look upon a reversal of the Bears' 73 points to a mere 37 as a moral victory. The Bears, with the title at stake, are just too good for the league. They have everything, running and passing, speed and power, class and deception. The only way to stop them is to have the ICC declare them a monopoly and disband them. If so, we'd take Bulldog Turner and Sid Luckman and send Lee Artoe down with the Amazons.

LAMBEAU FEELS IT IS HIS DUTY TO OPERATE BAY PACKERS IN 1943

DEC 9 (Green Bay) - 1943, the Green Bay Packers' first question mark year in their 22 seasons in the NFL, will have professional football. That's the opinion of Coach Curly Lambeau. Pointing to a service flag with 18 stars - each representing a Packer player in the service of Uncle Sam - Lambeau announced: "It is our duty to operate in 1943 as a morale builder, and for that reason we are going ahead with plans for next year. However, no more will be made if we discover that we are hurting, in any way, the national war effort." Lambeau pointed out that every club in the league will lose heavily and Green Bay will be no exception. "But the league needs only 250 men for its ten teams, and certainly 250 players out of 13,000,000 persons can be found to provide a source of entertainment that is so necessary to the American public. Only last week nearly 50,000 persons attended various sporting events in Europe, and Europe is in the hotbed of the war." Unlike in the past, Lambeau will not make his countrywide scouting trips to the various bowl games this fall. All scouting will be done by "operatives" in the various sections where the games are played...POSTPONE LEAGUE DRAFT: The Packer mentor will express his views on an interview over radio station WGN at 6:15 Thursday evening and later at the annual draft meeting scheduled in Washington Monday. Coach Lambeau is in favor of postponing the draft meeting until next April by which time "we can better tell the course of the war." Looking over the 1942 season, Lambeau pointed out the Chicago Bear game here as his biggest disappointment. "That one game might have resulted in a Western division tie and necessitated a playoff like a year ago. Realization that they played poorly against the Bears (44-28) helped our boys, however, in the rest of their schedule. Loss of two veteran tackles, Bill Lee and Ernie Pannell, hurt us in the second Bear game, although the Chicago club was just plain hot. Addition of ends Harry Jacunski and Ray Riddick helped the club to a great degree in the last three games, and we are in better shape now to meet the Bears in a playoff than any time this season." The Bays' best defensive performance was against Philadelphia's tough Eagles, said Lambeau. After scoring in the first few minutes, "the boys just dug in and held the rest of the way." The best offensive performance? "Without a doubt it was our game with the Cardinals here which we won, 55 to 24." Curly pointed to Lou Brock as the most improved player on the team. "Lou was outstanding wherever we put him. Originally a halfback, we shifted Lou to full at the start, and he was great. He finished brilliantly as a halfback again." The most improved lineman, from the start of the season to the end, was 300-pound tackle Tiny Croft, of which Lambeau said is "strong, fast and hard to handle." The Packer coach liked the spirit of the "boys" in the Pittsburgh game which Green Bay won, 24-21, although "we did get a bit careless in the last few minutes. The score should have been only 24-7." What about Don Hutson and Cecil Isbell? Lambeau said he'd rather let the records speak for those two boys. "They're the greatest in football and their services were invaluable." It may be added that Hutson scored 138 of the Packers' 300 points and Isbell tossed 17 touchdown passes. Coaching a "war" team for the first time, Lambeau said he has just as much material this year as in any other season. The pilot said the caliber of the league's first teams was not lowered, but, with the exception of the Bears and Washington, the reserve material was not strong. The Bears and Washington lost few reserves.

ISBELL IS LEAGUE'S FIRST PASSING CHAMP TO WIN TITLE SECOND TIME

DEC 9 (Chicago) - Cecil Isbell, Green Bay's rubber armed halfback, today became the first NFL forward passing champion to succeed himself. Official statistics reveal Isbell, who closed the season Sunday by tossing touchdown passes to three fellows, none of whom was named Don Hutson, had nipped Sammy Baugh in the closest race in league history. Baugh and Isbell wound up in a tie on the basis of the league's rating system, but the Packer veteran retained his championship through marked advantages in yards gained, total completions and touchdown passes, in all three of which he set new league records...HUTSON RETAINS TITLE: Other individual champions officially designated are Bill Dudley, Pittsburgh's sensational running back, who won ground gaining honors; Bill Daddio, Chicago Cardinal veteran, who led field goal kickers; and Hutson, who set several records in successfully defending his scoring and pass receiving championships. Although Dudley was the first player to gain more than 600 yards since Bill Osmanski accomplished it in his first year with the Chicago Bears, only Hutson and Isbell set new records. Baugh bettered the old marks for touchdown passes, gains and completions, and Bud Schwenk, another rookie, also bettered Davey O'Brien's former record for completions. Schwenk, the leading college passer in the country last year, took further part in the record breaking by cracking O'Brien's mark for attempts and increasing the league mark for interceptions. 27 of his passes were intercepted.

BAUGH SNARES PUNTING TITLE

DEC 10 (Chicago) - Sammy Baugh, the No. 1 Redskin, who lost a lose race to Cecil Isbell for the NFL passing championship, had an equally close squeeze with Dean McAdams in defense of his punting title. McAdams, one of Brooklyn's backfield mainstays, finished in a tie with Baugh under the league's rating system, but lost out on the basis of average distance per punt. Baugh, in winning the championship for the third consecutive year, averaged 46.6 yards for 37 punts. McAdams kicked 52 times for an average of 41.3 yards. They also tied for the longest punt of the season, getting off 74 yard efforts. Merlyn Condit, taking over the punting chores left vacant at Brooklyn when Ace Parker joined the Navy, took over the championship surrendered by Whizzer White, last year's winner when he also entered the Navy. Condit beat out Bill Dudley of Pittsburgh by a single return 20 to 19. Marshall Goldberg of the Chicago Cardinals had a better year all around in handling kickoff returns, retaining his championship by returning 15 kicks, three more than last year, for more yards, a better average and one touchdown. He did not score while bringing back 12 kicks for an average of 24.1 yards in 1941. This year he got away for 85 yards and a touchdown against Green Bay and averaged 26.2 yards per return. Bulldog Turner of the Chicago Bears set a new high for pass interceptions, snaring eight to beat Don Hutson of Green bay. The previous season high in this comparatively new department of National league statistics was seven in 1941.

EVER SINCE OPENING MINUTE OF PRO CAREER, HUTSON HAS BEEN PILING UP SCORES; HOLD 14 RECORDS

DEC 10 (Green Bay) - Seventy-four touchdowns, 74 extra points and two field goals for 524 points in eight years! That, ladies and gentlemen, represents the greatest scoring feat in the history of football. This record is owned by Green Bay Packer Don Hutson, the most spectacular point manufacturer the game has ever known. Hutson started scoring in the first minute of the first Packer game he ever played in. It was in 1935 and the Chicago Bears were guests at City stadium here. on the initial play, Arnie Herber tossed a pass to the former Alabama flash, and, needless to mention to Bay fans, he caught it for the only score that won the game, 7-0. The Poker Face (that's how he looks on the field) is still scoring, after eight years in the toughest football circuit in the country. He reached the climax of his career so far during the last season when he scored 138 points - more than any other players ever scored in a single year. This year he rolled 17 touchdowns, 33 extra points and one field goal. All except the field goal represent records. A year ago he set the National league record by counting 95 points to break Chicago Bear Jack Manders' mark of 67...HOLDS 14 RECORDS: Hutson scored 14 records in such departments as pass receiving, touchdowns, scoring and extra points. He also has a consecutive performance that may go down as a record, pending an investigation into Manders' scoring achievements. Hutson has scored in 25 straight games starting with the Packer-Detroit battle late in the 1940 season. The Packer wing swiped two of Manders' extra point marks in 1942. He finished with a total of 33 boots - two more than Manders' record. In the Cardinal game here he kicked six extra points to break the mark of five held jointly by Manders, former Packer Clarke Hinkle, and Jack McBride of the Giants. An interesting fact about Hutson's extra point achievements is that he scored his first "boot" by catching a pass from Johnny Blood against the Detroit Lions in 1935. Hutson had just caught a 41-yard aerial from Herber for the score after which Blood, a pass catcher himself, crossed up the Lions by throwing to Hutson in the clear for the extra marker...LATE ON PAT'S: Hutson didn't kick an extra point until 1938, when he got three. He added two in 1939; 15 in 1940; and 20 in 1941. The Packers were fortified with kickers like Hinkle, Ade Schwammel, Tiny Engebretsen and Ernie Smith in those days. Hutson's kicking is merely a sidelight when compared to his touchdown making system. He has scored seventy-four touchdowns in his career and made 17 alone in the 1942 season, both of which are records. Of the 74 passes, only two were made on running plays, both of which, incidentally, were end around scampers. His second-best TD year was in 1941, when he counted 12. He scored nine each in 1936 and 1939. Hutson scored at least one touchdown in each of his eight years against the Chicago Bears, the Packers' most hated rivals. In all, Hutson scored 13 times on the Bears. The Cleveland Rams were soft as Don pushed over sixteen touchdowns - three in 1937, six in 1938 and five in 1942. On four different occasions Hutson scored three times against Cleveland...NO JINX AFTER ALL: Hutson waited until 1942 to score against his biggest jinx - the New York club. He counted twice in the game at the Polo grounds and kicked three extra points for a 21-21 tie. The Packer end holds eight records in receiving alone. He gained slightly over three miles (5,515 yards) in his

career by catching passes. He picked up 1,211 yards in 1942 alone, and jammed 209 against the Rams here for a one-game record...FOUR-INCH PASS: Probably the most unusual record in Hutson's book is the four-inch throw he caught from Isbell in the Ram game here last fall. Hutson made a spectacular catch of the ball, snaring the pigskin on the dead run. Hutson kicked only two field goals in his career, but both were the margin of victory. A year ago he booted out in the last few seconds to edge out Cleveland, 17-14, and last Sunday against Pittsburgh his second quarter kick was the difference in the Packers' 24-21 win. Detroit proved something of a jinx to Hutson in one game this season. The Lions, who went without a victory all year, prevented Hutson from scoring a touchdown at Detroit but Don kept his scoring string alive by kicking two extra points. He scored twice on the Lions at Milwaukee. Hutson failed to score a TD against Pittsburgh but the famous end was handicapped with bruised ribs. He entered the game only to kick extra points and a few minutes of action after each kick.

END OF PRO FOOTBALL IS SEEN FOR DURATION

DEC 11 (New York) - After a session of listening to some of the NFL's "smart guys", who can see the handwriting on the wall, you were left with the idea today that that gridron's top professional loop probably will close up for the duration. The chief reasons for suspension of the circuit - as now appears likely - are (1) the fact that playing material next fall is going to be a lot scarcer than it was in '42 - which was bad enough, the coaches tell you - (2) the fact that the loop's moguls don't need a crystal ball to figure out fans aren't going to force anyone to hand out the S.R.O. sign next fall, what with a lot of players gone to war, plus the extra difficulties of transportation. Even the boss-man of the highly-successful Chicago Bears, George Halas - who is now teaching the navy's V-5 fellows at Oklahoma - has been heard to tell pals that pro ball, at best, would be operating under trying conditions next season. This is not to say that the circuit's ten club owners are going to announced any decision to suspend at their important meeting in Washington Monday, even though Danny Reeves, the Cleveland club owner, has indicated he'd be all for that. At this moment, the magnates are split up about 50-50 over playing next season...SOME HAVE OBJECTION: Some of the anti-suspension drumbeaters want to operate just to avoid any possible competition from "wildcat promoters". One or two others, with considerable investments, don't want to leave their money idle. One has $225,000 tied up in his club, and didn't do too well at the gate this season. Another has "sunk" $100,000 into his team. However, there's considerably more than an outside chance that the loop's championship playoff in Washington Sunday, between the Bears and the revenge-seeking Redskins, may be the last game for the duration. According to a couple of men close to the league, the magnates probably all will see the light next spring. And one fine day when the buds are popping and the hunting season is over, they'll admit "c'est la guerre" and wrap it up until the war ends.

YES, SON, THAT FELLOW HUTSON REALLY HANDED THE RECORDS A BEATING

DEC 13 (Milwaukee Journal) - A father speaks to his young son a generation hence: "So you think so and so can catch passes, eh? The best you ever saw, you say. Well, back in the forties where was a fellow by the name of Don Hutson, who played end with the Green Bay Packers. You heard of him? Sure you did. Who hasn't? Well, I saw him. Son, there was never another guy like him. And see here, don't laugh. I'm not just an old fogey living in the past. I'm telling you there never was another guy like him. This fellow Hutson wasn't big as a lot of ends go. He only weighed 178 pounds. But he was lithe and trim, and boy, how fast. You think some of those ends you see today have tricks? None of them had Hutson's tricks. He could hook, and change his pace, and suddenly dart ahead, and wheel better than anybody else I ever saw - and I've seem some of the guys of today you've mentioned. He didn't have such big hands, but he sure could snag that ball. He'd have fellows right on top of him, or he'd be going full blast, or he'd seem to be hopelessly short of a pass, but he'd get it. They used to say that his trick in holding the ball lay in the way he glued his eyes on it. He wouldn't turn to run with it before he had it. He'd make sure of the ball above everything else. You know - just like in golf. Look, I've got an old clipping somewhere around here from 1942. I guess that was the year he had finished eight seasons with Green Bay. Here it is. You talk about so and so today? Just let me check off the records that Hutson held at that time. Why, the things he had done covered

more than a page in the book: He caught 336 passes, 72 of them touchdown passes, and gained 5,515 yards in the eight seasons from 1935 to 1942. He caught 74 passes in the season of 1942, 17 of them touchdown passes, and gained 1,211 yards. He gained 209 yards on passes in one game against Cleveland in 1942 and then a little while later, also against Cleveland in a return game. caught a pass thrown from the four inch line - or that's what they said anyway. He scored 74 touchdowns in those eight seasons and 17 in one season, 1942. He kicked 33 extra points in one season, 1942, and against the Chicago Cardinals in the same year he kicked six of them in one game. He scored 524 points in those eight years on 74 touchdowns, 74 extra points and two field goals, and in 1942 he scored 138 points alone on 17 touchdowns, 33 extra points and one field goal. And from November of 1940, right through all of 1941 and 1942, he caught at least one touchdown pass in 25 consecutive games. All records. And he made them although he was a marked man every time he pulled on a suit. They'd hold him, knock him down, put two men on him, use every trick in the book. You've heard of George Halas of the Bears, of course. Pretty smart coach. Halas used to tear his hair every time his team had to face Hutson. Even he finally admitted he was stumped. He just conceded Hutson about two touchdowns a game and hoped his own team could score more. And what a grand guy. A gentleman. Always smoked a pipe. Spoke in a soft southern drawl. He came from Alabama, you know. Was the star of one of the Rose bowl games in which Dixie Howell did the passing. They say that Curly Lambeau got him for Green Bay by a matter of minutes over a fellow named Kelly - Shipwreck Kelly - who wanted him for Brooklyn. No, son, when you tell me about so and so, I've got to vote you down. There never was another guy like Hutson. Who did the passing? Well, there were several of them, but principally two. A fellow by the name of Arnie Herber came first. Why, on the first play from scrimmage in Hutson's first game in 1935, against the Bears, Herber threw a 60 yard pass which Hutson pulled in and carried across for the only touchdown of the game. Herber to Hutson was the top combination in those days. But then came an even greater one. Yes, sir, that's it - Isbell to Hutson. This Isbell was really a sharpshooter. No short, little flips for him. No, sir. He pitched the ball out and Hutson snagged them. And he pitched them true. People used to go to the park just to see him thread the needle. He held a slough of records himself. Won the National league passing championship two years in a two, 1941 and 1942. But that's something else. You talked about so and so catching passes, and I told you about Hutson. Just listen to your old man in this: There never was another guy like Don Hutson."

PRO FOOTBALL DETERMINED TO CONTINUE; DRAFT IS POSTPONED

DEC 14 (Washington) - The NFL, the professional gridiron's major loop, adjourned its regular December meeting Monday without holding the annual draft of graduating college players. It was the first time in seven seasons that the draft has been passed up at the December session. Owners of the ten clubs, or their representatives, met with Elmer Layden, league commissioner. After a discussion concerning the loop's wartime future, they adjourned "subject to the call of the commissioner." The session lasted less than two hours. It was known before the meeting that nine club owners favored putting off the draft, because most of the players graduating from college are earmarked for military service anyway...VOTE TO CONTINUE: The clubs owners voted unanimously to continue operations during the way, "subject to whatever regulations or conditions might arise." "We know there will be limitations and difficulties," Layden said later. "However, the sentiment of the members now is to continue." Although there was no official decision on just when the draft meeting might be held, if at all, the player selection could be accomplished at the loop's annual meeting in April, or at any time the commissioner might decide to call a session...PRO BOWL GAME: Layden also ironed out details concerning the "pro bowl" game between the championship Washington Redskins and a league All-Star team in Philadelphia Dec. 27. The entire proceeds, Layden said, will be given to the united seamen's

service. The All-Stars will begin gathering in Philadelphia Tuesday. They will be coached by Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos, pilots of the Chicago Bears, who were beaten by the Redskins in the title playoff Sunday. In a conference with Anderson, Layden named 33 players, gathered from every club in the league, to make up the All-Star squad. Nine of them were picked from the Bears.

THOMPSON READY TO BUY FOOTBALL TEAM

DEC 14 (Washington) - Twenty-one players he said he would but at the owners' prices were listed Sunday night by Corporal Alexis Thompson, millionaire owner of the Philadelphia Eagles pro football team, who declared he intended to give Philadelphia the "best team money can buy." "We will not quibble about the expense," Thompson asserted. Here to attend the Washington-Chicago Bears game, he left immediately afterward to report for duty today at Camp Patrick Henry, Va. Included on Thompson's list, rookie fullback of the Green Bay Packers, who played his college football at Stevens Point Teachers. Other listed were Sid Luckman, Ray McLean, Frank Maznicki, Bulldog Turner, Pug Manders, Perry Schwartz, Frank Kinard, Merle Hapes, Bill Edwards, Wee Willie Wilkin, Bob Masterson, Dick Farman, Vincent Banonis, Ray Bray, Joe Stydahar, Hampton Pool, Chuck Cherundolo, Jack Sanders, Curt Sandig and Jack Jacobs...WAR DEPLETES RANKS: Discussing the fact that enlistments depleted the Eagles' ranks during the year, Thompson said that "sometimes lately I've been tempted to suspend our activities for the duration, so our boys would have no choice but to go to work for Uncle Sam. But I have decided to postpone that for the time being, at least, and await further developments in the war situation," Thompson added. "I appreciate the loyalty of Philadelphia football fans. We want to keep faith with them and we will still make an effort to give them the best team in the league."

RED SMITH NAMED TO CCC STAFF

DEC 14 (Green Bay) - Richard (Red) Smith, line coach of the Green Bay Packers and manager of the Green Bay Bluejays, has been named assistant director of the Columbus Community club, it was announced today by the Rev. S.M. Killeen, club director. Smith, former Packer lineman and major league baseball catcher, started his duties today. Father Killeen announced that Smith will be in complete charge of the bowling alleys, and will promote activities in the alleys and auditorium. Smith will represent the CCC at all business meeting in the building. Among activities planned tentatively by Smith are organization by exercise clubs and conditioning group. Such activities would be the first at the club in several years. A native of Combined Locks, Wis., Smith has been connected with Green Bay athletic programs for a number of years. He played with the Packers in 1927 and 1929 and acted as line coach at the same time. He coached Georgetown university, Seton Hall and the University of Wisconsin before renewing his contract with the Packers in 1936...PRO BASEBALL PLAYER: In baseball, Smith played with the New York Giants in the National league in 1926 and 1927. He joined Montreal of the International league in 1928 and then played with the Boston Braves in 1929. Since 1935 Smith has been connected with the Milwaukee Brewers of the American association. Besides playing with them, he managed their farm clubs in the south. Smith managed the Green Bay Bluejays in 1941 and 1942, leading them to the Wisconsin State league pennant in 1941 and to second place this year.

15 MEMBERS OF PACKER TEAM SHARED SCORING PAST SEASON

DEC 14 (Green Bay) - Despite the fact that one player scored more than one-third of the points, the Green Bay Packers point-making for the 1942 season was divided among 15 gridders - something of a record in itself. The average number of scorers for the Packers usually ran around ten, and the 1942 figure of 15 is believed to be an all-time high. Thirteen of these scored at least one touchdown. The other two, Ted Fritsch and Dick Weisgerber, scored by the toe, Fritsch getting four field goals and an extra point and Weisgerber booting two extra points. The Packers rolled up 41 touchdowns, 39 extra points and five field goals for an even 300 points in 11 league contests. They counted thirteen on rushing and 28 by passes. Don Hutson scored 17 of their air touchdowns and finished with 138 points. He added 33 extra points and one field goal. Outside of Hutson, who was nothing short of miraculous in blasting the league's scoring record, Andy Uram led the Packers in scoring. Andy was second to Hutson with 31 points. Chuck Sample, new fullback, was next with 30...CREATE DISTURBANCE: Seven of the 15 scorers are linemen. The two top-string centers - Charley Brock and Bob Ingalls - each got a touchdown. Brock created a disturbance with his TD. He stole the ball from John Morrow, Chicago Cardinal fullback, and ran 22 yards for the score that gave the Packers a 17-13 victory, their first of the league card. The Cards yelled about that run until they were bumped off good and proper, 55-24, a month later. Ingalls intercepted a pass and ran 24 yards for his TD in the Packers' rout of the Cardinals here. Other linemen who scored touchdowns are Hutson, Keith Ranspot, Joe Carter, Harry Jacunski and Ray Riddick, all ends.

PACKERS, BEARS BOTH OWN FIVE NATIONAL GRID PENNANTS

DEC 15 (Green Bay) - Thanks to the Washington Redskins, the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears are still running neck and neck for NFL championships. When the Redskins upset the Bears, 14-6, Sunday for the 1942 title, the Packers remained in a 5-5 knot with the Chicagoans for league championships. The Bears won their fifth crown in 1941 by clipping the New York Giants, 37-9, while the Green Bay club copped No. 5 by downing the Giants, 27-0, in 1939. The Giants, who seem to have taken plenty of lickings from the Bears and

Packers, are in a commanding championship position. They hold three titles, having won in 1927, 1934 and 1938. Locked behind New York are Canton, with titles in 1922 and 1923, and Washington in 1937 and 1942. The Bears, incidentally, were the Redskins' victims in 1937, too, falling 28-21...DIVISIONAL TITLES: Since the league split into Eastern and Western divisions in 1933, the Bears captured six Western titles - one in a playoff with the Packers in 1941. New York won six in the Eastern sector. The Packers and Redskins each hold three sectional crowns and the Detroit Lions and Boston one each. The traditional Packer-Bear rivalry, started on a league basis by Curly Lambeau and George Halas in 1921, becomes more colorful as the years go on. The Bears won both tests this season but up here the Packer fans are still saying the Chicagoans were lucky to win that first one at City stadium. The Bears recovered a fumble and intercepted a pass for two quick touchdowns that gave them a 44-28 win...UNBEATEN SEASONS: The Bears have played 276 games and the Packers 268. The Bears won 189 and the Packers 177. Chicago has 59 defeats compared with the Packers' 71. The Bears lead in ties, 28-20. The Packers went through one season without a defeat (12-0-1 in 1929) and Chicago has two perfect years (13-0 in 1934 and 11-0 in 1942). The Bears' unbeaten mark was spoiled, however, by the Redskins Sunday...$5 PLEASE: News that each member of the championship Washington Redskin team will receive $966.87 for beating the Bears was sweet to Marty Morgan, former Green Bay West and Gonzaga center. It seems Morgan was official pants presser at Gonzaga back in 1937, and Ed Justice, Redskins halfback, was a man who likes a sharp press in his pants. Justice ran up $5 worth of pressings but somehow there just wasn't any "justice" when school closed...SHAME ON SCRIBES: Coach Curly Lambeau was quite surprised that none of the football "experts" noticed Larry Craig backing up the Packer line in the Pittsburgh game. For years, Craig teamed up with Don Hutson, playing end while Hutson took over Craig's spot deep in the defensive backfield. On offense, of course, Craig remained at blocking back. In the Steeler game, Craig never got to play end because Ray Riddick and Harry Jacunski happened to be in uniform...THEM TIE GAMES: The NFL played 128 tie games since 1921. The Bears hold the one-year record with six in 1932 when they won the title with only seven wins and one defeat. Green Bay finished second with ten wins, three losses and one knot. The only "tieless" year was 1934 when the Bears won 13

straight for the title. The most knots, 25, were produced in 1923...WADE WAS RIGHT?: Early this season NFL moguls laughed when Major Wallace Wade, then coach of the Western Army All-Stars, said that the Chicago Cards were "just a good college team". They laughed more when the Cards won their first two games. Now it is Wade's turn to snicker. The Cards finished with three wins in 11 starts.

FOUR PACKERS ON STAR TEAM7

DEC 15 (Green Bay) - Four members of the Green Bay Packers were named today by Commissioner Elmer Layden as members of the NFL's All-Star squad of 32 players for the pro bowl game against the champion Washington Redskins in Philadelphia Dec. 27. They are Charley Brock, center; Don Hutson, end; Cecil Isbell, back; and Cecil Isbell, back. Hutson, however, will be unable to play because of several badly bruised ribs which prevented him from any contact in the Pittsburgh game at Milwaukee recently. He injured his ribs in the New York Giant game Nov. 22...ISBELL IN LAFAYETTE: It is not known whether the other three Packer players will accept their invitations. Isbell is visiting the parents of his wide at Lafayette, Ind., and expects to stay there until after Christmas. Craig is at home in Central, S.C., and Brock is at his residence in Columbus, Neb. Hutson, who set the league on fire by scoring 134 points, doesn't expect to take any active exercise for about a month. The two Chicago Bear coaches, Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos, will pilot the team.

PROS POSTPONE DRAFT UNTIL SPRING PARLEY

DEC 15 (Washington) - The National Football league Monday voted unanimously to try to continue in 1943, but that was merely for the record. What the owners actually did was to decide not to make future plans until their April meeting, when, if the manpower situation warrants, they will try to keep going. More than 350 players already are in the armed forces. The meeting adjourned without holding the annual draft of graduating college players. It was the first time in seven seasons that the draft has been passed up at the league's December session. Although there was no official decision on just when the draft meeting might be held, if at all, the player selection could be accomplished at the loop's annual meeting in April, or at any time the commissioner might decide to call a session. Layden also ironed out details concerning the pro bowl game between the championship Washington Redskins and a league all-star team in Philadelphia December 27. The entire proceeds, Layden said, would be given to the United Seamen's Service. The all-stars will begin gathering in Philadelphia Tuesday. They will be coached

by Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos, pilots of the Chicago Bears, who were beaten by the Redskins in the title playoff Sunday, 14-6. The following 32 players, selected from every team in the league, were named Monday by Layden for the Philadelphia game. Layden said the only players on the "doubtful" list were Goldberg and Hutson, both injured during the regular season.

DON HUTSON, PACKER ACE, IS RANKED THIRD GREATEST ATHLETE IN ASSOCIATED PRESS POLL

DEC 16 (Green Bay) - Third place among all the male athletes of 1942 is the latest honor bestowed upon Don Hutson, the sensational record-breaking, pass catching end of the Green Bay Packers. Hutson collected 42 points in the annual Associated Press poll of 69 sports editors, it was announced today. In the voting, he competed with stars in major league baseball, boxing, track, golf, swimming, collegiate and pro football and all other sports. First place, with 94 points, went to All-America Frankie Sinkwich, who ran and passed the Georgia football team to the Southeastern conference championship and into the Rose bowl. Ted Williams, the slugging star of Boston's American league baseball club, drew 55 points for second place. Sixteen athletes drew first-place votes in the balloting. Sinkwich was named first by only 15 of the voters but received 19 second and third-place votes to account for his leading margin, figured on the basis of three for first, two for second and one for third. Williams finished second in the voting for the second straight year. The lanky outfielder, now training in the army air forces, poled a dozen first-place votes but received little support elsewhere...BEAZLEY IS FOURTH: Last year's winner, Joe DiMaggio of the New

York Yankees, was forgotten in the balloting this time. Johnny Beazley, the rookie hurler who pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to two wins in the World Series, came fourth with 38 points. Gunder Haegg, the Swedish track star, who cracked world records at distances from a mile to 5,000 meters, was voted first on 10 ballots, but had a point total of only 37, good for fifth place. Due to the fact that professional football is a comparatively new sport, and that the NFL operates only in the midwest and east, Hutson's third place ranking may be considered of special significance. He drew six first-place votes toward his point total of 42. Last year he was accorded the No. 5 position in the poll...ALL-PROFESSIONAL CHOICE: Hutson was the only unanimous choice in the Associated Press All-Professional team, and he appears a safe bet to land a first team berth on the official National league team. The last season was a sensational one for the Green Bay end, and during the campaign he shattered a total of 14 records. Among them were two scoring records - 138 points for the season and 524 points for his career of eight seasons. In pass receiving, Hutson produced records by catching 74 aerials for the season and bringing his total for eight seasons to 336. He caught 17 touchdown passes this year and built up his total to 72 for additional records. He holds records on yards gained by passes - 1,211 for the season and 5,515 for his career...209 YARDS BEST: Additional receiving records include 209 yards in one game, against the Cleveland Rams, and the shortest touchdown pass - four inches. the 17 touchdown passes caught by Hutson automatically gave him the record for the most touchdowns scored by any player in one season. Two additional touchdowns by rushing makes his total during all eight years 74 touchdowns for another record. During the last season, Hutson booted 33 extra points, which produced a new standard, and he chalked up still another record by scoring six conversions in one game against the Chicago Cardinals. Since the Detroit battle in December, 1940, Hutson has not failed to score a point in a National league game, making it twenty-five consecutive games that he has marked up points for the Green Bay Packer team.

HUTSON UNABLE TO PLAY SUNDAY

DEC 16 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson, 29-year-old top pass receiver and scorer of the NFL, announced on Wednesday that he would be unable to play in the annual pro bowl game at Philadelphia December 27. The star left end of the Green Bay Packers suffered a chest injury in a game against the Giants at New York Nov. 22. This injury was said to have been aggravated in subsequent games against the Eagles at Philadelphia November 29 and against Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Dec. 6. Hutson has played with the Packers eight years and was chosen six times on the all-league team.

SEVEN PACKERS HAVE SCORED POINTS IN ALL THREE DEPARTMENTS; HUTSON FIRST, HINKLE NEXT ON LIST

DEC 17 (Green Bay) - Heading the all-time scoring table of the Green Bay Packers is an exclusive group of seven men who have chalked up points in all three of football's scoring departments - touchdowns, points after touchdowns and field goals. The membership includes halfbacks Curly Lambeau (1921-27) and Bobby Monnett (1933-38); quarterbacks Red Dunn (1927-31) and Pid Purdy (1926-27); fullbacks Clarke Hinkle (1932-41) and Eddie Jankowski (1937-41); and end Donald Hutson (1935-42). They scored 1,280 of the Bays' 4,137 points in 21 years in the NFL. Oddly enough, these versatile scorers represent every season since the Packers started playing league ball. Coach Lambeau started the ball rolling in 1921, and Hutson is still going strong. In total points, Hutson is still going strong. In total points, Hutson is tops with 524 on 74 touchdowns, 74 points after and two field goals. Next is Clarke Hinkle, the Bucknell flash, who was steady in his point getting - 46 TD's, 30 PAT's and 28 FG's for 390 points. Lambeau is third in this select group with 12 touchdowns, 19 points after and six field goals for 109 points. Monnett scored nine touchdowns, 26 extra points and five field goals for 99 counters. Jankowski, who played under Hinkle, just barely qualified with one field goal, four extra points and 11 touchdowns for 73 marks...DUNN GREATEST QUARTERBACK: Dunn, believed to be the greatest Packer quarterback, scored only one touchdown but kicked 46 extra points and two field goals for 58 points. And last but not least is that 145-pound midget quarterback, Purdy, who counted one touchdown, 15 extra points and two field goals for 27 points. Many outstanding scores starred in one or two departments of counting but failed in a third. For instance, Paul (Tiny) Engbretsen booted 48 points after touchdowns, second only to Hutson, but he failed to get a touchdown. Engebretsen didn't get any chances to score touchdowns, however, because he was a guard. Tiny added 16 field goals. Big Ernie Smith, a tackle, is another example. He kicked 45 extra points and seven field goals, but, of course, didn't carry the ball from his tackle position...LEWELLEN BEST PUNTER: Verne Lewellen, who never was matched as a punter, is the opposite of Smith or Engebretsen. Lewellen missed the Big Seven society by failing to get a field goal, even though he gained most of his fame with his kicking - or, rather, punting. Lewellen scored 50 touchdowns and one point after for 301 points - still third behind Hutson and Hinkle. Of the 91 scorers on the Packer list, 83 scored touchdowns, 29 made extra points and 15 kicked field goals. Six new names were added to the scoring list during the 1942 season. Tops among the group is fullback Chuck Sample, who rolled up 30 points on five touchdowns for 27th place on the list. Other 1942 newcomers and their point totals are: Ted Fritsch, 13; Keith Ranspot, Joe Carter, Bob Ingalls and Ray Riddick, six each...URAM NOW: 11TH: Andy Uram, who scored 13 points last season, leaped from 20th to 11th place with a total of 85 points, just one less than Lavvie Dilweg, who closed up football business in 1934. In rolling up 138 points for a new league record, Hutson booted his eight-year mark to 524 - 134 more than Hinkle who played 10 years before retiring to join the U.S. Coast Guard.

PROS SEEKING ADDED TALENT

DEC 17 (Chicago) - Semipro and sand lot gridders may provide an answer to professional football's wartime manpower problems in the opinion of Commissioner Elmer Layden. "Baseball builds up its talent from the sand lot diamonds," Layden declared. "There is no reason why professional football couldn't find some diamonds in the rough on the semipro gridirons." Layden said he also believed many young coaches in small colleges would be available for the pro ranks next season. He said he based this assumption on reports that decreased enrollments would force suspension of some sports at many institutions. Layden said that the fact that many semipro gridders did not play college football should not keep them from a fling at pro football. "Many high school boys take industrial arts courses," he explained, "and therefore don't have the proper credits for entrance into college. They become bread winners or family men at an early age and continue playing football for the love of the game. Lots of these boys now are defense workers, and as such, in good condition and still active in football."

DON HUTSON IS UNABLE TO PLAY

DEC 18 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson, famous pass catching end of the Green Bay Packers, today denied an

Packers receiver Don Hutson, left, and coach Curly Lambeau take a light repast after donating blood at the Red Cross plasma center in a photo dated Dec. 8, 1942. Serving them is Mrs. Albert Ostermann. Hutson and Lambeau were just two members of the entire Packers squad who remained in Milwaukee to donate blood a day after a victory over the Steelers.

Associated Press announcement out of Philadelphia that he had made arrangements to play in the NFL's annual "pro bowl" game there Dec. 27. "Because of the shape I'm in, it's impossible for me to take part in the game," Huston declared. He still has not recovered from severe chest injuries received in the New York Giant game Nov. 22 and aggravated in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh games. The story said that Hutson had volunteered to do the field goal and extra point kicking in the pro classic, which will pit the Champion Washington Redskins against the league all-stars. Proceeds of the game will go to the Merchant Marine fund.

MANDEL FAVORS A PLAN TO KEEP FOOTBALL GOING

DEC 20 (Detroit) - Owner Fred L. Mandel, Jr., of the Detroit Lions, who once thought 1943 operations of the NFL out of the question, now is solidly behind Commissioner Elmer Layden's plan to continue even at the extreme of putting play on a semipro basis. Perhaps because he has nothing to lose (his team dropped all 11 games last fall), Mandel said Saturday war plant workers with college, high school or sand lot football experience would be invited to try out with the Lions next fall. "I admit right now that the caliber of play will be far below standards," Mandel declared, "but so long as the competition is keen it should meet with public approval. Mandel favors an eight game schedule confined strictly within divisional limits.

HUTSON REITERATES HE WILL NOT PLAY

DEC 21 (Green Bay) - Don Hutson, Green Bay Packer end, Monday denied a story originating in Philadelphia that he would play in the pro bowl game at that city December 27. The NFL's record making pass catcher reiterated an earlier statement that injuries received late in the season would prevent him from appearing in the charity contest. The eastern story had reported Hutson was to assume the duties of kicking for touchdown conversions but would see little scrimmage action because of his injuries.

QUARTERBACK IS FORGOTTEN MAN ON BAY ELEVEN

DEC 21 (Green Bay) - Since the days of Red Dunn, the quarterback has been the forgotten man of the Green Bay Packers. Dunn was the last of the Packer quarterbacks who passed, punted, ran with the ball, blocked and called signals. Since his heyday, Packer quarterbacks were chiefly blockers although boys like Johnny Blood, Hank Bruder, Joe Laws and Bobby Monnett were used at blocking quarterback depending on the system of play Coach Curly Lambeau had in operation. When Dunn passed out of the picture, Lambeau revised his "Lambeau-Notre Dame" style so that the quarterback's chief duty was blocking on offense and backing up the line on defense. They no longer operated in the sense of the word - quarterback, whose duties in most cases are to call signals, watch the team's defense and run, pass and punt. Modern examples of the Dunn-type of quarterback are Sid Luckman and Charley O'Rourke of the Chicago Bears; and Tommy Thompson of the Philadelphia Eagles. Prominent Packer blocking quarters since Dunn's day include Harry O'Boyle, Paul Fitzgibbons, Roger Grove, Buckets Goldenberg, who is now a guard, Herman Schneideman, Dick Weisgerber, Bob Adkins and Larry Craig. Wiesgerber, Adkins and Craig handled the B.Q.B. duties in the last four years when Lambeau kept his quarterback on hand chiefly to lead the interference...PLAY TWO POSITIONS: Craig has had an unusual experience in his four-year career here. He played blocking quarterback on offense and end on defense, pulling into the line in place of Don Hutson, fleet pass catcher whose speed was valuable in covering opponent ball hawks. This move gave Craig an opportunity to star at two positions. The official all-league team, selected annually since 1931, a year before Dunn closed business, never has been a representative at quarterback by a Packer. All of the all-league quarterbacks were signal callers, runners, passers, kickers and what have you. Among them are Luckman, 1941; Clarence Parker, Brooklyn, 1940; Davey O'Brien of Philadelphia, 1939; Dutch Clark, Detroit, 1937, 1936, 1935, 1934; Harry Newman, New York, 1933; Clark, Portsmouth, 1932, 1932. The Packers have placed 12 different players on the official all-league team. They include Clarke Hinkle, fullback; Don Hutson and Lavvie Dilweg, ends; Cal Hubbard and Ernie Smith, tackles; Mike Michalske, Russ Letlow and Evans, guards; Nate Barrager, center; and Johnny Blood, Arnie Herber and Cecil Isbell, halfbacks. Barrager is the only Packer ever to make the center position, while Hinkle is the only Packer to place in the fullback spot. The Hink won the honor in 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1941, and Barrager was chosen in 1932. Hutson captured the honor five times, starting in 1936. He placed second in 1937 but then gained the starting end position in the next four years, and he's a cinch to make five straight when the selections come out soon for 1942. Dilweg won his

honor in 1931. Hubbard captured tackle laurels in 1931, 1932 and 1933 and Smith succeeded him, as a Packer, in 1936. Scores of unofficial all-league teams were picked by newspaper service and other organizations before 1931, and the names of Dunn, Cub Buck, Verne Lewellen, Bo Molenda and others were mentioned prominently.

CECIL ISBELL MAY CLOSE GRID CAREER AS ALL-STAR

DEC 22 (Lafayette, IN) - Cecil Isbell, star of the Green Bay Packers and passing ace of the NFL, may close his brilliant grid career December 27 when he plays with the all-stars against the champion Washington Redskins at Philadelphia. "I think I've had enough," the former Purdue star said Monday. "Five years of pro football is enough for anyone. If the opportunity come, I'll quit the game." A keen passing rivalry exists between Isbell and Sammy Baugh of Washington. Isbell has completed more passes than Baugh, but the percentage of completions gives Baugh the edge. "We're the best of friends," Isbell said, "but even though I like Sammy, I would like to complete some tosses just to see how this competition will come out." Isbell said the Redskins have a better team than the all-stars. "You can't just throw together a bunch of fellows who have worked out a week and expect them to beat a club that has five months of hard work." Isbell believes a short pass will work best against Redskin defense if they use the standard 6-2-2-1. Isbell said, "Pro ball is done for the duration. Half the boys are in the armed forces. The rest of the players are married or have other jobs, so they won't be too hard hit. I guess I'll just work at my soft water business in Neenah."

ISBELL DIDN'T LET LAMBEAU DOWN

DEC 24 (Green Bay) - Cecil Isbell sold Green Bay Packer coach Curly Lambeau a bill o' goods in Soldier Field in Chicago Aug. 31, 1938. The former Purdue university star, playing with the College All-Stars, convinced Lambeau that he was to succeed Arnie Herber, then ace of the Packer pitching corps. That night of Aug. 31, Lambeau saw Isbell pass rings around the Washington Redskins and outshadow the great Whizzer White at the same time. A good triple-threat man at Purdue but not a great passer, Isbell set the stage for his pro aerial career with a performance that gave the Stars a 28-16 win over Washington. Lambeau saw in Isbell a continuance of the Packers' air game even after Herber ended his brilliant career. The Purdue ace passed to Johnny Kovatch of Northwestern for one touchdown and kept the Redskins back on their heels all night with his air bombs. He had eight out of ten completions for a gain of of slightly over 140 yards. His yardage total exceeded that of Sammy Baugh who then was THE passer of the NFL Redskins. Since his All-Star appearance, Isbell has constructed a pitching record that probably will stand for years. It eclipses the efforts of Baugh, despite the fact that the Washington Redskin star is considered by many the greatest of football throwers. In his five-year professional stand, Isbell marked up seven new records and tied one. He pitched 61 touchdown passes; gained nearly four miles in the air (5,975 yards), and completed 408 passes in 813 attempts...CONSECUTIVE PASS MARK: Most remarkable of these records is his consecutive game touchdown mark. Starting with the first game in 1941, Isbell has thrown one or more T.D. passes in every game. His run of 23 includes the Chicago Bear-Packer divisional playoff a year ago this month. His trusty flipper accounted for 15 touchdowns in 1941 and 24 in 1942, both of which are records. He completed over half of his aerials last season (146 in 268 attempts) for another new mark, shattering Philadelphia Davey O'Brien's mark of 124 set in 1940. In the Chicago Cardinal game here, Isbell went wild, throwing five touchdown passes and gaining 333 yards in ten completions. That 333 breaks a mark of 316 set by O'Brien and his five T.D. passes tied a record set by Ray Buivid of the Bears against the Cards in 1937. His 2,021 yards gained in 11 games in 1942 is another new mark, and boosted his all-time total to 5,975...FOUR-INCH TOUCHDOWN: Isbell has had his bad days, too. Five of his tosses were intercepted in the Packer-New York game of 1938. This bit of business tied six other players. Most unusual mark is his four-inch touchdown throw to Hutson in the Cleveland game here last fall. In regular league competition, Isbell threw touchdown passes to 14 different players. Of course, Hutson, who has become something of a brother in the last two years, is his favorite. The flashy Hutson gathered in 33 for touchdowns - three in 1938; one in 1939; three in 1940; ten in 1941; and 16 in 1942. Carl Mulleneaux ranks next to Hutson with eight touchdown receptions from Isbell. He snared in five in 1940; two in 1941; and one in 1938. Lou Brock and Andy Uram each caught three. Players with two are Clarke Hinkle, Joe Laws, Arnie Herber and Harry Jacunski while singletons belong to Hank Bruder, Milt Gantenbein, Eddie Jankowski, Ray Riddick, Joe Carter and Chuck Sample...HERBER CAUGHT FIRST PASS: Oddly enough, Herber, a great tosser himself, caught Isbell's first touchdown pass in the Chicago Cardinal game in Milwaukee in 1938, which the Bays won 28-7. To make the afternoon complete, Herber tossed a touchdown pass to Isbell. In all, Cece completed three out of four passes, gained 89 yards on the ground and handled most of the punting. The Milwaukee sports scribes immediately termed him another Dutch Clark. In addition to his passing ability, Isbell gained a name for himself with his running. In 1938 he finished fourth in the league with 445 yards in 85 attempts. His average, 5.2, was tops that season. The next year, as his passing was used to a greater extent, he finished tenth among the runners, picking up 407 yards in 132 attempts for an average of 3.0. Starting with 1940 his passing completely eclipsed his running, although he remained a dangerous runner. Since 1940 Cece had little chance to build up his yardage-by-rushing figure, chiefly because yards he loses trying to pass are deducted from the rushing total. For instance, if Isbell is thrown for a 10-yard loss attempting to pass the loss is taken from his running figure. The logic is that he would have a chance to run (if he could evade the tackler) and build up his rushing total...BEATING FROM ARTOE: Injuries to his legs handicapped his running last fall, and the payoff came in the second Chicago Bears game when he took a terrific beating from tackle Lee Artoe whose principal job was to wait until Cece passed and then dive in. A passer generally is an easy target after he throws because he's usually off balance and rigid. When will he retire? In Lafayette, Ind., visiting his wife's parent this week, Isbell said: "I think I've had enough. Five years of pro football is enough for anyone. If the opportunity comes, I'll quit the game." His coaches here, however, are of a different opinion. They say Cece still has "that old zip that should keep him in the game for two or three more years." They say the same of Hutson, the other half of the touchdown pair.

MODERN PUNTING FAR BELOW VERNE LEWELLEN'S STANDARD'

DEC 26 (Green Bay) - Punting in the NFL is taking something of a beating. At any rate, that's the impression one gets when Verne Lewellen, former Green Bay Packer booter, is discussed. At the Lions club banquet for Lavvie Dilweg recently, somebody made the statement that a "50-yard punt now is considered quite a feat, but our Mr. Lewellen used to kick them 80 yards without batting an eye." The unfortunate part of Lewellen's punting (1924-32) is that he kicked before the press box statisticians started keeping records of long boots, averages and so on. Observers believe Lewellen averaged nearly 60 yards. The present top average is 48.7 by Sammy Baugh in 1941. Baugh won the title again this year but averaged 45 yards. Besides distance, Lewellen had that unbelievable knack of putting the ball where he wanted it to go. No receiver ever had to wait for a Lewellen punt to come down; he had to catch it running to his left or right. The longest punt listed in the league's record manual is an 86-yarder booted by Ralph Kercheval for Brooklyn in 1935. Lewellen had been known to kick 'em 90 yards and more...RENTNER VICTIMIZED: Of the seven league passers who each had five passes intercepted in one game, Earnest Rentner, former Northwestern university and Boston Redskin star, takes the cake. He threw only six passes and watched the Pittsburgh Steelers take five of them in 1935. That still stands as one of the most unusual records in the book...IDENTICAL SCORES: Did you know the Packers won three games by the same score in 1938? They beat the Chicago Cardinals, Cleveland and Detroit by 28-7 counts. Cecil Isbell, in his first year here, threw one touchdown pass in each game, pitching to Arnie Herber against the Cards; to Hutson against Cleveland; and to Hinkle against Detroit...THIS AND THAT: Guard Russ Letlow, tackle Paul Berezney and trainer Bud Jorgensen worked for Uncle Sam (the post office) during the Christmas holidays. The Letlows recently became parents of a baby boy. Mrs. Letlow is the sister of Eddie Jankowski, who formerly played with the Bays. Ed Frutig, former Michigan and Packer end, is an instructor at a naval air base near Detroit. Frutig was not fond of airplane rides in 1941 when the Packers made several overhead trips, but the navy changed that. O'Beil Adams, who played end for the New York Giants against Green Bay, has joined the Oshkosh All-Stars basketball team. Connie Mack Berry of the Chicago Bears also is on the Star roster...EARNED GRID 'RUNS': How about earned "runs" and errors for football pitchers? For instance, an intercepted pass taken back for a touchdown would be an unearned score, but would also go down as an error for the thrower. Other errors would be fumbles. Another unearned score would be picking up a fumble and running for a touchdown. But what's the use. It's the final score that counts, anyway. The Kahler boys, Royal and Bob, may be brothers but their off season duties are quite different. Packer Bob is coaching track the University of Nebraska and will assist in football practice this spring. Royal is working for the United States Naval ammunition department in Hastings, Neb. He's in the engineering department, making high explosives for the navy.

PRO ALL-STARS CONFIDENT THEY CAN BEAT REDSKINS

DEC 26 (Philadelphia) - Heartley (Hunk) Anderson was a completely satisfied individual Saturday as his National league all-stars went into their last day of drills before their clash with the Washington Redskins in Sunday's pro bowl classic at Shibe park. If morale could do it, his team was a cinch to walk off the field with victory - and in his case, revenge, Anderson was convinced. He and his assistant, Luke Johnsos, had completed a terrific task of drilling a mixed group of players in two systems of football in one short week, and the results, they said, were all they could ask for. "We took a vote of players," Hunk explained, "and they voted for the T formation. But we put in the Notre Dame box, too, just in case. You ought to see the way those fellows have wolfed down the work. Cecil Isbell of the Packers, for instance. He figured we'd just use the T, but we gave them the Notre Dame shift, too, and we told Isbell, 'This is your style. Think you can show up Sammy Baugh?' We haven't been able to hold him since. I guess we have those kids 70 plays, not counting variations, and not one of them has beefed." "They're smarter than college kids, too," Johnsos put in. "After all, what did you know when you were in school? If you had sense enough to come in out of the rain, they probably made you valedictorian. These guys know what they want. They want to beat the Redskins and we..." "We got licked by the Redskins," Anderson concluded, "what do you think we want?" Meanwhile, Ray Flaherty, coach of the Redskins, continued to worry about lack of enthusiasm on his squad. The champions went through a light drill Friday, confining their practice to touch football. Wee Willie Wilkin, the Redskins' all-league tackle, reported for duty with the Redskins. He had been called home to California after the title game with the Bears two weeks ago. The all-stars lost another player Friday when Dr. W.W. Kelly, physician to Don Hutson, ordered the Green Bay kicking and pass grabbing to stay out of the game. The doctor said Hutson, injured November 22 in a game against the New York Giants, had a cold, severe cough and chest injury. Milt Simington, Pittsburgh Steelers' guard who was on the all-stars' first string line, suffered a heart attack Thursday and announced he would quit football for good.

STARS TIP REDSKINS IN BAUGH'S ABSENCE

DECEMBER 26 (Philadelphia) - The failure of Sammy Baugh, star of the champion Washington Redskins, to appear for Sunday's pro bowl football game at Shibe park caused a furor which overshadowed the National league all-stars' 17 to 14 victory over the league champions. A field goal by Lee Artoe of the Chicago Bears decided the game. The scoring was spectacular. Ki Aldrich, Washington center, scooped up the ball after a punt and ran 30 yards to score. Bill Dudley of Pittsburgh intercepted a pass and ran 97 yards for a touchdown. Each side scored again on a brilliant passing, Sid Luckman pitching for the stars and Zimmerman for the Redskins. John Petty of the Bears plunged a few yards for the stars' second tally after Sid Luckman's passes had gained 41 yards. Zimmerman's passes set up and scored the Redskins' second score, with Seymour scoring. Artoe's field goal broke a 14 to 14 tie. Commissioner Elmer Layden ordered an investigation "to bring out the full facts on Baugh's absence." Dick Todd, running back, also was missing. He was reported to have had an argument with Owner George Marshall. Another league official explained: "From all we know Baugh may have a legitimate excuse for not showing up, but so far we can fine no legitimate reason for his not notifying us that he could not or was not coming." Baugh said at his Rotan (Tex.) ranch: "I tried my best to make the game. They were supposed to have a car ready for me in Sweetwater (about 30 miles from Rotan) so I could catch a plane out of Dallas about 11:50 p.m. Saturday. The car was not there." The announcement Baugh would not play was made late Saturday night. Many in the crowd of 18,671 knew nothing about it when they appeared at the park. All the proceeds of the game, above minimum expenses, were turned over to the United Seamen's service. The players were not paid and many of Baugh's Washington teammates were reported "sore" at his failure to appear. George Strickler, director of public relations for the league, said Baugh was expected here Saturday morning. Two airplane tickets were delivered to his home last Tuesday. A telephone call to Rotan Saturday afternoon disclosed Baugh was "not feeling well" and did

not think he could make it. M. Dorland Doyle, vice-president of the Redskin club, talked with Baugh and he finally agreed to make the trip, Strickler declared, adding: "We made arrangements with the Sweetwater police to give Baugh an escort to Dallas. He was to get the 11:30 p.m. through plane, or if he missed that the 1:30 a.m. plane for Washington. Late Saturday we were informed by the Sweetwater police Baugh had decided there wasn't time to get to Dallas so he went back home." At the start of the game it looked as though the Redskins would have things pretty much their own way as the All-Stars were unable to click with any combination of players. The hard charging Washington line broke through frequently to throw the stars for loses. Midway in the first period Harry Hopp of the Detroit Lions kicked from his own 11. The ball landed on the 45 and bounced back to the 30, Aldrich picked it up and raced for a touchdown. Bob Masterson converted. The score remained 7-0 until the third quarter, when a tough, tight ball game became a scoring spree. The All-Stars struck into scoring territory in the first period and again in the second. With the second quarter half gone, nine Chicago Bears were sent in with the ball on the Stars' 29. Luckman's 18 yard pass to Bosh Pritchard of the Eagles was the main piece of the march to the Redskins' 33, where Cecil Hare intercepted a pass. The punt set the Stars back to their 46, but Luckman connected with a pass to Wilson and another to Siegal which put the ball on the Redskins' 18. Famiglietti carried twice and it was first down on the three. He hit the line again but slipped and was stopped on the one. Luckman failed on a quarterback sneak and Famiglietti lost a yard as the half ended. Washington also muffed a chance in the third quarter, after Fred Davis blocked Hopp's punt on the All-Stars' 29. They moved to the eight and stalled. after the punt out, the champions struck pay dirt again but Bill Dudley of Pittsburgh intercepted a pass and ran 97 yards for a touchdown. He got beautiful blocking. Maznicki's kick tied the score at seven. Artoe kicked off over the goal line and Hare punted back to the Stars' 49. Two passes by Luckman to Siegal and Wilson gained 41 yards and John Petty plunged for the tally. Maznicki made it 14-7. Washington tied the score almost immediately. Zimmerman's pass to Masterson, good for 39 yards, put the ball on the 16 and another pitch taken by Bob Seymour in the end zone. Masterson's kick tied the score. Merlyn Condit of Brooklyn took Masterson's kickoff and ran 59 yards to Washington's 37. Bill Young caught him from behind. The Stars bogged down on the 27 and Artoe made his field goal from the 43.

GREEN BAY THIRD IN ALL-TIME STANDINGS OF NATIONAL LEAGUE

DEC 30 (Green Bay) - All-time standings of the ten teams now in the NFL put Green Bay in third place - a couple of notches behind Washington's Redskins who have yet to earn their No. 2 ranking. The Packers rest an even 40 percentage points behind the leading Bears who have a rating of .762 on 189 wins, 59 losses and 27 ties. Green Bay won 174 games, lost 67 and tied 20 for a mark of .722. Washington has a percentage of .744 on

47 wins, 16 losses and 3 ties. Technically the Packers are second, the Redskins having played only 66 games compared with the Packers 261 in 21 years. They entered the league in 1937, and games played by the old Boston Redskin team which later was moved to Washington are not counted in the standings. The rating are based on regularly-scheduled league games only. Both the Packers and Bears have been in the league for its duration - 22 years. The Chicago Cardinals also have been in since 1921, but won only 92 games, lost 129 and tied 19 for a sixth-place ranking of .416. New York is fourth - 99 percentage points behind the Bears. The Giants are the third team to win over 100 games, capturing 114 while losing 48 and tying 13.

SCORELESS TIES

DEC 30 (Green Bay) - The Packers played their last scoreless tie in 1936, and chances are that they'll never play another one - with NFL rules permitting the emphasis on wide open scoring play. In 22 years of football, Curly Lambeau's athletes played only eight scoreless ties, and all but one were in league competition. The non-loop knot was with the Duluth Eskimos in 1926. League scoreless ties involved the Milwaukee Badgers and Rock Island Independents, both in 1922; St. Louis Gunners, 1923; New York Yankees, 1928; Frankford, 1929; Chicago Bears, 1932, and Chicago Cardinals, 1936. The Bears and Packers had an eye for zeros in 1932 when the teams opened with scoreless ties. Then the Packers beat their rivals, 2-0, after which the Bears nipped Green Bay, 9-0. In 1936, the Packers won the first two games from the Cards, 10-7, and 24-0, before the clubs battled to a scoreless tie...Speaking about ties, the Packers and New York Giants are keeping themselves well tied together. In 21 games, the Packers won ten and the Giants won the same number. The 21st game played in New York last month resulted in a (you guessed it) tie, 21-21. The Packers held a slight edge in points, though, 150 to 200.

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13

Philadelphia 24, PITTSBURGH 14 Chi Cards 7, Cleveland 0 at Buffalo

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 24 14 Chi Cards 1 0 0 1.000 7 0

Washington 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 .000 0 0

Brooklyn 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Chi Bears 0 0 0 .000 0 0

New York 0 0 0 .000 0 0 GREEN BAY 0 0 0 .000 0 0

Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 14 24 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 0 7

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20

CHICAGO CARDS 13, Detroit 0 WASHINGTON 28, Pittsburgh 14

Cleveland 24, Philadelphia 14 at Akron, OH

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 1 0 0 1.000 28 14 Chi Cards 2 0 0 1.000 20 0

Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 38 38 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 24 21

Brooklyn 0 0 0 .000 0 0 Chi Bears 0 0 0 .000 0 0

New York 0 0 0 .000 0 0 GREEN BAY 0 0 0 .000 0 0

Pittsburgh 0 2 0 .000 28 52 Detroit 0 1 0 .000 0 13

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27

Chicago Bears 44, GREEN BAY 28 Cleveland 14, DETROIT 0

New York 14, WASHINGTON 7 Brooklyn 35, Phil 14 at Buffalo

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

New York 1 0 0 1.000 14 7 Chi Cards 2 0 0 1.000 20 0

Brooklyn 1 0 0 1.000 35 14 Chi Bears 1 0 0 1.000 44 28

Washington 1 1 0 .500 35 28 Cleveland 2 1 0 .667 38 21

Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 52 73 GREEN BAY 0 1 0 .000 28 44

Pittsburgh 0 2 0 .000 28 52 Detroit 0 2 0 .000 0 27

SUNDAY OCTOBER 4

Chicago Bears 21, CLEVELAND 7 Green Bay 17, CHICAGO CARDS 13

Brooklyn 28, DETROIT 7 Washington 14, PHILADELPHIA 10

PITTSBURGH 13, New York 10

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Brooklyn 2 0 0 1.000 63 21 Chi Bears 2 0 0 1.000 65 35

Washington 2 1 0 .667 49 38 Chi Cards 2 1 0 .667 33 17

New York 1 1 0 .500 24 20 GREEN BAY 1 1 0 .500 45 57

Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 41 62 Cleveland 2 2 0 .500 45 42

Philadelphia 1 3 0 .250 62 87 Detroit 0 3 0 .000 7 55

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

CHICAGO BEARS 41, Chicago Cards 14 WASHINGTON 33, Cleveland 14

NEW YORK 35, Philadelphia 17 Pittsburgh 7, BROOKLYN 0

Green Bay 38, Detroit 7 at Milwaukee

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 3 1 0 .750 82 52 Chi Bears 3 0 0 1.000 106 49

Brooklyn 2 1 0 .667 63 28 GREEN BAY 2 1 0 .667 83 64

New York 2 1 0 .667 59 37 Chi Cards 2 2 0 .500 47 58

Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 48 62 Cleveland 2 3 0 .400 59 75

Philadelphia 1 4 0 .200 79 122 Detroit 0 4 0 .000 14 93

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18

CHICAGO BEARS 26, New York 7 Chicago Cards 7, DETROIT 0

GREEN BAY 45, Cleveland 28 Washington 21, BROOKLYN 10

Pittsburgh 14, PHILADELPHIA 0

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 4 1 0 .800 103 62 Chi Bears 4 0 0 1.000 132 56

Pittsburgh 3 2 0 .600 62 62 GREEN BAY 3 1 0 .750 128 92

New York 2 2 0 .500 66 63 Chi Cards 3 2 0 .600 54 58

Brooklyn 2 2 0 .500 73 49 Cleveland 2 4 0 .333 87 120

Philadelphia 1 5 0 .167 79 136 Detroit 0 5 0 .000 14 100

SUNDAY OCTOBER 25

CLEVELAND 7, Chicago Cards 3 CHICAGO BEARS 45, Philadelphia 14

Green Bay 28, DETROIT 7 BROOKLYN 17, New York 7

Washington 14, PITTSBURGH 0

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 5 1 0 .833 117 62 Chi Bears 5 0 0 1.000 177 70

Brooklyn 3 2 0 .600 90 56 GREEN BAY 4 1 0 .800 156 99

Pittsburgh 3 3 0 .500 62 76 Chi Cards 3 3 0 .500 57 65

New York 2 3 0 .400 73 80 Cleveland 3 4 0 .429 94 123

Philadelphia 1 6 0 .143 93 181 Detroit 0 6 0 .000 21 128

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1

CHICAGO BEARS 16, Detroit 0 GREEN BAY 55, Chicago Cards 24

Cleveland 17, BROOKLYN 0 Pittsburgh 17, NEW YORK 9

WASHINGTON 30, Philadelphia 27

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 6 1 0 .857 147 89 Chi Bears 6 0 0 1.000 193 70

Pittsburgh 4 3 0 .571 79 85 GREEN BAY 5 1 0 .833 211 123

Brooklyn 3 3 0 .500 90 73 Cleveland 4 4 0 .500 111 123

New York 2 4 0 .333 82 97 Chi Cards 3 4 0 .429 81 120

Philadelphia 1 7 0 .125 120 211 Detroit 0 7 0 .000 21 144

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8

Chicago Bears 35, BROOKLYN 0 WASHINGTON 28, Chicago Cards 0

Green Bay 30, CLEVELAND 12 Pittsburgh 35, DETROIT 7

New York 14, PHILADELPHIA 0

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Washington 7 1 0 .875 175 89 Chi Bears 7 0 0 1.000 228 70

Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 114 92 GREEN BAY 6 1 0 .857 241 135

Brooklyn 3 4 0 .429 90 108 Cleveland 4 5 0 .444 123 153

New York 3 4 0 .429 96 97 Chi Cards 3 5 0 .375 81 148

Philadelphia 1 8 0 .111 120 225 Detroit 0 8 0 .000 28 179

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

CHICAGO BEARS 38, Green Bay 7 CLEVELAND 27, Detroit 7

Washington 14, NEW YORK 7 Philadelphia 14, BROOKLYN 7

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

Z-Washington 8 1 0 .889 189 96 Chi Bears 8 0 0 1.000 266 77

Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 114 92 GREEN BAY 6 2 0 .750 248 173

Brooklyn 3 5 0 .375 97 122 Cleveland 5 5 0 .500 150 160

New York 3 5 0 .375 103 111 Chi Cards 3 5 0 .375 81 148

Philadelphia 2 8 0 .200 134 232 Detroit 0 9 0 .000 35 206

Z-Clinched Tie for Division Title

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22

Chicago Bears 42, DETROIT 0 PITTSBURGH 19, Chicago Cards 3

WASHINGTON 23, Brooklyn 3 NEW YORK 21, Green Bay 21 (T)

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

X-Washington 9 1 0 .900 212 99 X-Chi Bears 9 0 0 1.000 308 77

Pittsburgh 6 3 0 .667 133 95 GREEN BAY 6 2 1 .750 269 194

New York 3 5 1 .375 124 132 Cleveland 5 5 0 .500 150 160

Brooklyn 3 6 0 .333 100 145 Chi Cards 3 6 0 .333 84 167

Philadelphia 2 8 0 .200 134 232 Detroit 0 10 0 .000 35 248

X-Clinched Division Title

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29

CHICAGO BEARS 47, Cleveland 0 NEW YORK 21, Chicago Cards 7

Washington 15, DETROIT 3 PITTSBURGH 13, Brooklyn 0

Green Bay 7, PHILADELPHIA 0

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

X-Washington 10 1 0 .909 227 102 X-Chi Bears 10 0 0 1.000 355 77

Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 146 95 GREEN BAY 7 2 1 .778 276 194

New York 4 5 1 .444 145 139 Cleveland 5 6 0 .455 150 207

Brooklyn 3 7 0 .300 100 158 Chi Cards 3 7 0 .300 91 188

Philadelphia 2 9 0 .182 134 239 Detroit 0 11 0 .000 38 263

X-Clinched Division Title

1942 National Football League All Star Game Full Ticket (Source: Heritage Auctions)

SUNDAY DECEMBER 6

Chicago Bears 21, CHICAGO CARDS 7

NEW YORK 10, Brooklyn 0

Green Bay 24, Pittsburgh 21 at Milwaukee

EASTERN DIVISION WESTERN DIVISION

X-Washington 10 1 0 .909 227 102 X-Chi Bears 11 0 0 1.000 376 84

Pittsburgh 7 4 0 .636 167 119 GREEN BAY 8 2 1 .800 300 215

New York 5 5 1 .500 155 139 Cleveland 5 6 0 .455 150 207

Brooklyn 3 8 0 .273 100 168 Chi Cards 3 8 0 .273 98 209

Philadelphia 2 9 0 .182 134 239 Detroit 0 11 0 .000 38 263

X-Clinched Division Title

1942 NFL TITLE (December 13 at Washington)

WASHINGTON REDSKINS (10-1) 14, CHICAGO BEARS (11-0) 6

CANADIAN FOOTBALL - 1942

NOTES: The WIFU and the IRFU suspended operations for the duration of World War II. A couple of military teams based in Toronto, the RCAF Hurricanes and the Navy York Bulldogs joined the regular ORFU teams like Balmy Beach and the Toronto Indians. The Ottawa Rough Riders continued operation, but as part of an Ottawa based league. Out West, a three team Winnipeg city league was formed with the Winnipeg Bombers, the University of Manitoba Bisons and a military team called the RCAF Flyers.

WINNIPEG CITY FINALS (Bombers win series, 34 points to 29)

SAT OCT 31 - RCAF Flyers 18, Bombers 14

TUES NOV 3 - Bombers 20, RCAF Flyers 11

WESTERN FINAL

SAT NOV 7 - Winnipeg RCAF Flyers 13, Regina Navy 6

OTTAWA CITY FINAL

SAT NOV 21 - Ottawa RCAF Uplands 9, OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS 0

ORFU FINAL

WED NOV 25 - TORONTO RCAF HURRICANES 24, Toronto Balmy Beach 0

EASTERN FINAL

SAT NOV 28 - Toronto RCAF Hurricanes 18, OTTAWA RCAF UPLANDS 13

1942 GREY CUP (Saturday December 5 at Toronto - ATT: 12,455)

TORONTO RCAF HURRICANES 8, WINNIPEG RCAF BOMBERS 5 - With Canadians serving on battlefields across Europe and the Pacific, the first ever non-civilian Grey Cup took place in 1942. The Western Interprovincial Football Union and Interprovincial Rugby Football Union suspended operations for the duration of World War II, as most of the players had signed on for military service. The Toronto R.C.A.F. Hurricanes battled the Winnipeg R.C.A.F. Bombers on an icy field at Varsity Stadium in Toronto. Lew Hayman, winner of three Grey Cups with the Toronto Argonauts in the 1930s, coached the Hurricanes and improved his unblemished record in the big game. Both offences had trouble in the first half, as Toronto could only muster a 2-0 lead in the opening 30 minutes of play. A couple of turnovers proved to be almost costly for both sides. Eddie Thompson’s poor lateral pass to Bill Stukus allowed Rube Ludwig to recover the ball for the Bombers on the Toronto 12-yard line. But Thompson made up for the miscue by intercepting Wayne Sheley’s intended pass for Chester McCance. Thompson dashed 65 yards down field before being pushed out of touch by Johnny Lake. Winnipeg finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter when Sheley completed a pass to Lloyd Boivin in the end zone. Don Durno blocked the convert attempt, keeping the score 5-2 in favor of the Bombers. Toronto then took the lead for good. Don Crowe carried the ball 39 yards to the Winnipeg three-yard line before being tackled by McCrance. John Poplowski finished the scoring drive on his short run to the end zone, putting the Hurricanes ahead 7-5. Crowe reeled off another big run in the fourth quarter, this time 37 yards to set up Toronto’s final point of the contest. Crowe kicked for the rouge, giving the Hurricanes a three-point win. Winnipeg relied heavily on its passing game, while Toronto secured the victory on the ground. The Bombers gained 121 yards in the air, compared to the Hurricanes’ 22. Toronto rushed for 218 yards, while Winnipeg could only gain 75. Some believed that had the playing surface been better, the Bombers would have been able to out-perform the Hurricanes. Across the ocean in London, England, Canadian servicemen and civilians were able to listen to a condensed version of the Grey Cup broadcast.

TORONTO - 0 2 5 1 - 8

WINNIPEG - 0 0 5 0 - 5

2nd - TOR - Single, Andy Brannigan rouged on Fred Kijek kick TOR 1-0 2nd - TOR - Single, Ken Charlton rouged on Kijek kick TOR 2-0 3rd - WIN - Lloyd Boivin, 10-yard from Wayne Sheley WIN 5-2 3rd - TOR - John Poplowsky, 2-yard run TOR 7-5 4th - TOR - Single, Charlton rouged on Don Crowe kick TOR 8-5

Members of the 1942 Royal Canadian Air Force Hurricanes celebrate their Grey Cup victory.

Documentary looks at 1942 Grey Cup champs