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	Vintage Baseball Publications and Memorabilia
		The second is a copy of the letter to MacPhail from Clark Shaughnessy who coached the Los Angeles Rams to the NFL Championship game in 1949 and played with Minnesota from 1910-14.
		The Pirates, down three games to one, win their third straight game and the World Championship on Willie Stargell's 6th inning home run.
		His son Lee was the longtime American League president and his grandson Andy brought two World Championships to the Twins as general manager.
	www.sportsartifacts.com /publications.html (8162 words)

	Team - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Most Lopsided Win: A 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship game.
		In 1932, they defeated the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 to win the championship in the first NFL game to be played indoors.
		Despite winning nearly 60 percent of their games in the 1950s, the Bears did not win an NFL title and made only one playoff appearance.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/team.jsp?franchise_id=6 (953 words)

	Photo Gallery of Great Moments
		The 1940 NFL Championship Game was the first full blown version of the T-formation and marked George Halas as an outright offensive genius.
		NFL official Art McNally, in the press box, watched television replays of the play and conferred with the officials on the field before ruling the call on the field was correct.
		This marked the first time in NFL history where instant replay was used to determine if a call on the field was correct.
	www.ffbookmarks.com /photo_gallery_of_great_moments.htm (953 words)

	Vintage Baseball Publications and Memorabilia
		The second is a copy of the letter to MacPhail from Clark Shaughnessy who coached the Los Angeles Rams to the NFL Championship game in 1949 and played with Minnesota from 1910-14.
		The Pirates, down three games to one, win their third straight game and the World Championship on Willie Stargell's 6th inning home run.
		His son Lee was the longtime American League president and his grandson Andy brought two World Championships to the Twins as general manager.
	www.sportsartifacts.com /publications.html (953 words)

	Redskins had their day of infamy in 1940 - The Washington Times: Sports - December 06, 2004
		The still-struggling NFL was a mere two-division, 10-club entity in 1940; the Bears were both a charter member (as the Decatur Staleys in 1920) and its most dominant team.
		This was the biggest in professional sports history — and in a championship game no less.
		In 1940, Halas switched offensive formations from the single wing to the modernized T-formation, introduced the previous season by Clark Shaughnessy at Stanford.
	www.washtimes.com /sports/20041206-012620-4029r.htm (953 words)

	Photo Gallery of Great Moments
		The 1940 NFL Championship Game was the first full blown version of the T-formation and marked George Halas as an outright offensive genius.
		NFL official Art McNally, in the press box, watched television replays of the play and conferred with the officials on the field before ruling the call on the field was correct.
		This marked the first time in NFL history where instant replay was used to determine if a call on the field was correct.
	www.ffbookmarks.com /photo_gallery_of_great_moments.htm (5825 words)

	jaguars.com >> The official website of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars.
		In three NFL seasons, the Jaguars have 24 victories in 48 games, whereas the Bears, in 78 seasons dating back to 1920 (the first year of the NFL), have 602 victories, 406 losses and 42 ties.
		In their second season in 1996, the Jaguars advanced all the way to the AFC Championship game, finishing the regular season in second place in the division with a 9-7 record.
		They started as the Decatur Staleys in 1920, and won championships in 1921 (their first season in Chicago), 1932, 1933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1963 and Super Bowl XX in 1985.
	www.jaguars.com /Story/344.asp (3887 words)

	Chicago Bears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1940 Chicago Bears team hold the record for the biggest defeat in an NFL game (playoff or regular season) with a 73-0 whipping over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
		The Bears have won a total of 9 league championships, including Super Bowl XX after the 1985 season in which they dominated the NFL with their then-revolutionary 46 defense and a cast of characters that recorded the novelty rap song "The Super Bowl Shuffle".
		The Bears repeated as NFL champions in 1941, and the 1940s would be remembered as the era of the "Monsters of the Midway".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Bears (3071 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: National Football League
		Their 73-0 drubbing of the Redskins in the 1940 championship game is remembered as one of the signature routs in sports history.
		Doubts that the NFL could make it outside football's traditional hotbeds in the east and midwest were soon quashed when the barnstorming Bears played to a house of 75,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
		Professional football in America dates back to 1892, the year that Yale's All-America guard--William "Pudge" Heffelfinger--accepted $500 to appear in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100866 (1425 words)

	Chicago Bears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the many league championships in their history, the most awe-inspiring was their 73-0 victory over the favored Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium in the 1940 league championship game.
		The NFL took that action as a consequence of the Bears' aggressive signing of famous U of I player Red Grange, almost literally as he walked out the door of Memorial Stadium following his final game as a collegian.
		The Bears became a dominant team in the early 1940s, acquiring the University of Chicago's discarded nickname "Monsters of the Midway" as well as a newly-penned theme song that declared them "The pride and joy of Illinois".
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Bears (860 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: National Football League
		Their 73-0 drubbing of the Redskins in the 1940 championship game is remembered as one of the signature routs in sports history.
		More damaging to the league's prestige was the ongoing feud between Commissioner Rozelle and Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, who sued successfully for the right to move his team to Los Angeles&; where an NFL team already existed; he later moved it back to Oakland.
		Professional football in America dates back to 1892, the year that Yale's All-America guard--William "Pudge" Heffelfinger--accepted $500 to appear in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100866 (1425 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: National Football League
		Their 73-0 drubbing of the Redskins in the 1940 championship game is remembered as one of the signature routs in sports history.
		More damaging to the league's prestige was the ongoing feud between Commissioner Rozelle and Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis&; who sued successfully for the right to move his team to Los Angeles&; where an NFL team already existed; he later moved it back to Oakland.
		Professional football in America dates back to 1892, the year that Yale's All-America guard--William "Pudge" Heffelfinger--accepted $500 to appear in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100866 (1425 words)

	Chicago Bears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the many league championships in their history, the most awe-inspiring was their 73-0 victory over the favored Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium in the 1940 league championship game.
		The NFL took that action as a consequence of the Bears' aggressive signing of famous U of I player Red Grange, within a day after his final game as a collegian.
		The Bears became a dominant team in the early 1940s, acquiring the University of Chicago's discarded nickname "Monsters of the Midway" as well as a newly-penned theme song that declared them "The Pride and Joy of Illinois".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Bears (2226 words)

	Philadelphia Eagles
		Their next appearance in a league championship game would take place in 1960, with quarterback Norm Van Brocklin and linebacker Chuck Bednarik leading the offense and defense, respectively (Bednarik was also the last NFL player to play both offense and defense, lining up at center when the offense had the ball).
		Their home stadium is Lincoln Financial Field (2003-), with previous home venues having been Veterans Stadium (1971-2002), Franklin Field (1958-1970), Connie Mack Stadium (1940-1957), Municipal (later renamed John F. Kennedy Stadium) (1936-1939), Baker Bowl (1931-1935), and Frankford Stadium (1924-1930).
		The Eagles won this game, 17-13 over the Green Bay Packers, which was played at Franklin Field on December 26, 1960.
	www.asinah.net /articles/content/p/ph/philadelphia_eagles.html (2226 words)

	Detroit Lions Tickets NFL Ticket - Buy Cheap Detroit Lions Tickets
		In 1935 the Lions earned their first NFL title, shutting out 3 of 12 regular-season opponents and soundly defeating the New York Giants in the championship game.
		The Lions shut out their first 7 opponents and surrendered a record-low average of 4.5 points per game for the season, but they failed to qualify for the playoffs.
		The Detroit Lions are a professional football team and one of four teams in the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL).
	www.onlineseats.com /nfl-tickets/detroit-lions/index.asp (2226 words)

	Harry Wismer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His first game for the Redskins was a most inauspicious one, their 73-0 loss to the Chicago Bears ' great " Monsters of the Midway " team in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
		Wismer devised a plan in which the proceeds from the broadcast rights to league games (initially with ABC) would be shared equally by all teams, very innovative at the time but setting the standard for all future professional football television broadcasting contracts.
		Wismer was left embittered and with debts totalling approximately $2,500,000, which he eventually struggled to settle for 78 cents on the dollar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Wismer (2226 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: National Football League
		Their 73-0 drubbing of the Redskins in the 1940 championship game is remembered as one of the signature routs in sports history.
		More damaging to the league's prestige was the ongoing feud between Commissioner Rozelle and Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, who sued successfully for the right to move his team to Los Angeles, where an NFL team already existed; he later moved it back to Oakland.
		Professional football in America dates back to 1892, the year that Yale's All-America guard--William "Pudge" Heffelfinger--accepted $500 to appear in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100866 (2226 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: National Football League
		Their 73-0 drubbing of the Redskins in the 1940 championship game is remembered as one of the signature routs in sports history.
		Doubts that the NFL could make it outside football's traditional hotbeds in the east and midwest were soon quashed when the barnstorming Bears played to a house of 75,000 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
		Professional football in America dates back to 1892, the year that Yale's All-America guard--William "Pudge" Heffelfinger--accepted $500 to appear in a game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100866 (1425 words)

	NFL History: Hall of Fame Class of 1965 - Sid Luckman * NFLhistory.org
		Sid led the Bears in a 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL title game.
		He once threw 7 touchdowns in a 1943 game and another five in the 1943 championship win over Washington.
		He retired having participated in 128 regular season games, passing 1,744 times, completing 904, for 14,686 yards and 137 touchdowns.
	www.nflhistory.org /museum/hof/luckman.htm (1425 words)

	j. - Sid Luckman, star quarterback for Chicago Bears, dies at 81
		Luckman played for four championship Chicago teams in 1940, 1941, 1943 and 1946.
		After 12 years in the NFL, Luckman retired and launched a successful business career in the packaging industry.
		In that game, he threw for 453 yards in the 56-7 trouncing, the first time a quarterback had thrown for more than 400 yards in a single game.
	shamash.org /jb/bk980710/obsid.htm (1425 words)

	Pro Football Firsts - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		December 8, 1940 – First radio network coverage of an NFL championship game.
		Mutual Radio Network broadcast the Chicago Bears' 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins.
		1960 – ABC became the first network to sign a television contract with the American Football League.
	www.profootballhof.com /history/release.jsp?release_id=1476 (1401 words)

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