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Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:25 pm
by rhickok1109
The Green Bay football team was organized 96 years ago today, on Aug. 11, 1919. Of course, the team didn't join the NFL until two years later.
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:02 pm
by luckyshow
Curly Lambeau was a shipping clerk at The Indian Packing Company. They canned meat. ("A meat market on your pantry shelf")
First game was a 53-0 win over the Menominee North End A.C., 9/14/1919 at Hagemeister Park
First team to score on them, following 4 straight shut-outs, were the Racine Iroquois (who lost 76-6, 10/12/1919).
They would win 10 straight. Their last game of the season was their first loss. And the second time they were scored upon. A 6-0 loss at the Beloit Fairies on 11/23/1919.
Three teams would score on them in a 9-1-1 1920 season, including another loss to the Faeries (14-3) and 3-3 tie against the Chicago Boosters. They beat the Fairies in 1921.
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:21 pm
by Moran
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:47 am
by luckyshow
Maybe the beer's still good! (lol)
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:50 am
by 74_75_78_79_
Fun stuff! I hope the sports world (ESPN/NFL Network too) gives a proper celebration 4 years from now. Not sure who my favorite team would be if the Steelers didn't exist (or if my Dad didn't inspire me), but the Pack would clearly be a candidate (then again, so would da Bears, lol). An old-school, small town team actually having an NFL franchise and it being run the right way even now in the modern era...
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 8:44 am
by rhickok1109
luckyshow wrote:Maybe the beer's still good! (lol)
Rahr's beer was never any good!
Re: Packers are 96 years old today.
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:32 am
by Citizen
The most interesting aspect of that 1919 season was the Packers' 6-0 loss in the final game to the Beloit Professionals (aka Fairies) -- partly because it came after the Packers had dispatched their first 10 opponents by an average of 56-1, and partly because the officiating of the game almost led to a riot at the game site in Beloit. A rematch was scheduled for the following month but was cancelled because of the weather and never rescheduled. Green Bay split a pair of games with Beloit the following year (again, the Packers' only loss), and by 1921 it seems the Beloit team was no more.
