American football championship game
1936 NFL Championship Game
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2
3
4
Total
GB
7 0 7 7
21
BOS
0 6 0 0
6
Date December 13, 1936 Stadium
Polo Grounds ,
New York City
Referee
Wilmer G. Crowell Attendance 29,545 Packers:
Curly Lambeau (coach/gm),
Arnie Herber ,
Clarke Hinkle ,
Don Hutson ,
Blood McNally Redskins:
George Preston Marshall (owner/founder),
Ray Flaherty (coach),
Cliff Battles ,
Turk Edwards ,
Wayne Millner
The 1936 NFL Championship Game was the fourth
championship game played in the
National Football League (NFL). It took place on December 13 at
Polo Grounds in New York City, making it the first NFL title game held on a neutral field.
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
The Eastern Division champion
Boston Redskins (7–5) were the home team, but their owner
George Preston Marshall , the Packers and the league mutually agreed to move the game from
Fenway Park to the Polo Grounds due to low ticket sales in
Boston .
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
Several days after the game, Marshall announced he would move the team to his hometown of
Washington, D.C. for the
following season .
[8]
[9]
This was the first championship game for both the Redskins and the Western Division champion
Green Bay Packers (10–1–1), who were favored.
[10] The Packers won 21–6 for their fourth NFL title, all under longtime head coach
Curly Lambeau , having previously won league championships awarded by league standing in
1929 ,
1930 , and
1931 .
[11]
Sunday, December 13, 1936
Kickoff: 2 p.m.
EST
[10]
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
Each player on the winning Packer team received about $250, while Redskins received about $180 each.
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Players played both ways, offensively and defensively, in 1936. Thus, there were only these eleven starters for each squad.
[12]
Green Bay Packers
Boston Redskins
† - Note: The quarterback in the
single-wing offense was sometimes called the "blocking back", the ball was generally
shotgun snapped to a halfback or the fullback.
‡ - Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame.
The NFL had only four
game officials in
1936 ; the back judge was added in
1947 , the line judge in
1965 , and the side judge in
1978 . The following were the four officials who called the 1936 championship game.
[12]
Referee: W.G. Crowell
Umpire: Bobby Cahn
Head Linesman: Maurice J. Meyer
Field Judge: William Halloran
^ Smith, Wilfrid (December 14, 1936).
"Green Bay wins title; whips Boston, 21-6" . Chicago Tribune . p. 21.
^
"Packers beat Boston 21-6, for pro crown" . Milwaukee Sentinel . December 14, 1936. p. 11.
^ Keuchle, Oliver E. (December 14, 1936).
"Packers win pro championship; passes beat Boston, 21 to 6" . Milwaukee Journal . p. 4, part 2.
^
"Arnold Herber's arm hurls Green Bay Packers into pro championship" . Spokesman-Review . Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. December 14, 1936. p. 9.
^
"Play-off game is definitely set at Polo Grounds" . Milwaukee Journal . December 7, 1936. p. 6, part 2.
^
"Bays, Boston play for crown in N.Y. Sunday" . Milwaukee Sentinel . Associated Press. December 8, 1936. p. 14.
^ Smith, Wilfrid (December 13, 1936).
"Packers and Redskins meet today for championship" . Chicago Tribune . p. 1, part 2.
^
a
b McGrath, John (January 10, 2006).
"Redskins history lesson" . Lakeland Ledger . Florida. McClatchy News Service. p. C1.
^
"Capital gets Boston team" . Milwaukee Journal . Associated Press. December 17, 1936. p. 8, part 2.
^
a
b Keuchle, Oliver E. (December 13, 1936).
"30,000 to see Packers, Boston" . Milwaukee Journal . p. 1, sports.
^
Howard Roberts (1953). "Redskins On The Warpath".
The Story of Pro Football . Rand McNally & Company. pp.
208 –209. LCN 53-9336.
^
a
b
c Roger Treat, The Official National Football League Football Encyclopedia. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1952; p. 235.
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Super Bowl (1970–present)[1][3]
1 – Dates in the list denote the season, not necessarily the calendar year in which the championship game was played. For instance, Super Bowl LIV was played in 2020, but was the championship for the 2019 season.
2 – From 1966 to 1969, the first four Super Bowls were "World Championship" games played between two independent professional football leagues, AFL and NFL, and when the league
merged in 1970 the Super Bowl became the NFL Championship Game.
3 – Italics indicate future games.