Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 208

'Sunday, August 8, 1993 Green Bay Press-Gazette 3ftc ft 3 i i if The first -4-3 years I 1 HP isrL Till Strategy session: Curly Lambeau, right, explains strategy to halfback Cecil Isbell, center, and end Don Hutson. S' I I V' First coach: Curly Lambeau coached the Packers from 1919 to 1949. August 11, 1919 Group meets in the editorial room of the Green Bay Press-Gazette to determine the level of interest in fielding a town football team. The group decides to hold a second meeting three days later. August 14, 1919 At the second meeting, Earl Ix)uis (Curly) Lambeau is elected captain of the town football team sponsored by the Indian Packing Company.

The Packing Company agrees to provide land on which to practice and money with which to buy equipment and jerseys. The Green Bay Packers are born. August 27, 1921 John and Emmett Clair of the Acme Packing Corporation (Acme bought out the Indian Packing Company in 1920) are granted a franchise in the American Professional Football Association (forerunner to the NFL). Other teams competing that year include the Evansville Crimson Giants, Tonawanda Kardex and Muncie Flyers. Just six short years later, 16 of the 21 teams comprising the league in 1921 will have folded.

October 23, 1921 Green Bay defeats the Minneapolis Marines 7-6 at Hagemeister Park in its professional debut. Art Schmael scores the decisive touchdown with less than five minutes remaining in the game. November 27, 1921 Packers-Bears series is launched. Green Bay loses 20-0 to the Staleys, who became known as the Bears a year later. The Packers wind up their first professional season with a 3-2-1 mark.

January 28, 1922 John and Emmett Clair surrender the franchise to the league as penalty for the team using college players in 1921. Green Bay is without a pro football team for nearly nearly six months. June 24, 1922 After the Clairs were forced to surrender the franchise, Curly Lambeau applied for it. In June, the league agrees to give Curly Lambeau a franchise and the right to field a team in what has become the National Football League (NFL). September 27, 1925 For the first time in four tries, the Packers defeat the Bears.

Verne Lewellen caught a scoring pass from Charlie Mathys in the fourth quarter to provide the difference. December 28, 1929 Green Bay knocks off the Bears 25-0 to complete its only unbeaten season in team history (12-0-1) and claim its first-ever NFL championship. The Packers' defense is superb, allowing opponents just 22 points. December 6, 1931 Despite a 7-6 season-ending loss to the Bears, the Packers wrap up a 12-2 season and an unprecendented third straight NFL title. October 1, 1933 Green Bay plays its first ever home game in Milwaukee (State Fair Park) and comes up a 10-7 loser to the New York Giants.

In its 60-year association with Milwaukee, the Packers have posted a 101-59-3 record (.629) a mark that is considerably better than its Green Bay record, 178-118-13 September 22, 1935 Don Hutson reels in an 83-yard pass from Arnie Herber on the game's first offensive play to single-handedly defeat the Bears 7-0. When his career comes to an end 11 years later, Hutson is the NFL's all-time receiving leader with 488 catches for 7,991 yards and 99 touchdowns. --t AwH f3? Complete to Hutson: Don Hutson hauls in a pass W- during the Oct. 15, 1942, game against the Cleve- i vl land Browns, Niim.