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1957 Chicago Bears Season
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The 1957 season was the Chicago Bears' 38th in the National Football League. The team failed to improve on their 9–2–1 record from 1956 and finished with a 5–7 record under second-year head coach Paddy Driscoll, one year after making the championship game. The 47–7 loss in that game, coupled with a 5–7 season, compelled owner George Halas to reassign Driscoll in February and return as head coach in 1958. Schedule * Saturday night (October 5) Standings Roster : Season summary Week 1 at Packers References Chicago Bears Chicago Bears seasons Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Division (NFL)
Western Division or West Division may refer to: Locations *Western Division (The Gambia) *Western Division, Fiji * West Division (Northern Ireland) *Western Division (New South Wales) * West Division, Western Australia Units * 13th (Western) Division (United Kingdom) * 19th (Western) Division (United Kingdom) *Western Rifle Division Sport *Western Division (AFL) *West Division (CFL), a division of the Canadian Football League *West Division (NHL) *American League Western Division *National League Western Division * AFC West Division * NFC West Division *West Division of the Mid-American Conference *West Division of the Southeastern Conference *Western Division (cricket), a division of Minor League Cricket See also * Western Conference (other) * Central Division (other) * Eastern Division (other) * Northern Division (other) * Southern Division (other) * * * * Division (other) * Western (other) * West (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Brown (quarterback)
Charles Edward Brown (October 26, 1928 – August 2, 2007) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback and punter in the National Football League (NFL). Prior to the NFL Brown went to high school in San Luis Obispo, California, and Hartnell College in Salinas, California. He played for the University of San Francisco Dons through 1951. On his senior year (1951), he quarterbacked the Dons to an undefeated 9–0 season, but the team did not receive a Bowl invitation. Despite the increasing integration of college and pro football, the major bowls that year did not select teams that had black players, or they asked the teams to not bring their black players. The Dons refused to send a white-only squad, so they were snubbed. The 1951 Dons featured Ollie Matson and Burl Toler, both superb players who happened to be African-American. Matson played with great success in the NFL and made the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Toler went on to become the first black offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Cone (American Football)
Fred Cone (June 21, 1926 – December 31, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a fullback and placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers. He was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. Early life Cone grew up in Pine Apple, Alabama, with a population around 100. He attended Moore Academy, a one-room school from kindergarten through high school. He did not play football because there were not enough people to field a team. Before going to college, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to take part of World War II, where he served in the Pacific as part of the 11th Airborne Division. College career When he returned to the United States] in the summer of 1946, he read a newspaper advertisement about tryouts at Auburn University and decided to attend. His participation was cut short with an ankle injury that forced him to return home. During his rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babe Parilli
Vito "Babe" Parilli (May 7, 1930 – July 15, 2017) was an American football quarterback and coach who played professionally for 18 seasons. Parilli spent five seasons in the National Football League (NFL), three in the Canadian Football League (CFL), and 10 in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at Kentucky, where he twice received consensus All-American honors and won two consecutive bowl games. Parilli achieved his greatest professional success in the AFL as the starting quarterback of the Boston Patriots from 1961 to 1967. He earned three All-Star Game selections, while leading the Patriots to their only AFL postseason and championship game appearance in 1963. Present for the entirety of the AFL's existence, Parilli played his final seasons for the New York Jets and was part of the team that won a Super Bowl title in Super Bowl III. After retiring as a player, he served as a coach in the NFL, World Football League, and Arena Football League from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Howton
William Harris Howton (born July 3, 1930) is a former American football player, an end in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, and expansion Dallas Cowboys. As a rookie, Howton caught thirteen touchdown passes, a rookie record that was tied but not broken until 1998. Howton caught a total 503 career passes for a total of 8,459 yards. In doing so, he surpassed then leader Don Hutson to become the all-time leader in receptions and yardage. This made him the first receiver with 500 catches in pro football history. In over a half century since Howton's retirement, the dawn of improved passing has seen him drop into the top 50. Despite his extensive credentials, he has yet to be named a finalist or semifinalist in Pro Football Hall of Fame balloting. He retired after the 1963 season, after four years with Dallas. In 2004, he was named to the Professional Football Researchers Association Hall of Very Good in the association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea level and north of Milwaukee. As of the 2020 Census, Green Bay had a population of 107,395, making it the third-largest in the state of Wisconsin, after Milwaukee and Madison, and the third-largest city on Lake Michigan, after Chicago and Milwaukee. Green Bay is the principal city of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties. Green Bay is well known for being the home city of the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers. History Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France, commissioned Jean Nicolet to form a peaceful alliance with Native Americans in the western areas, whose unrest interfered with French fur trade, and to search for a shorter trade route to China throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambeau Field
Lambeau Field is an outdoor athletic stadium in the north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 as City Stadium, replacing the original City Stadium at Green Bay East High School as the Packers' home field. Informally known as New City Stadium for its first eight seasons, it was renamed in August 1965 in memory of Packers founder, player, and long-time head coach, Curly Lambeau, who had died two months earlier. The stadium's street address has been 1265 Lombardi Avenue since August 1968, when Highland Avenue was renamed in honor of former head coach Vince Lombardi. It sits on a block bounded by Lombardi Avenue (north); Oneida Street (east); Stadium Drive and Valley View Road (south); and Ridge Road (west). The playing field at the stadium has a conventional north–south alignment, at an elevation of above sea level. The stadium completed its latest renov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill George (linebacker)
William J. George (October 27, 1929 – September 30, 1982) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for the Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). George was born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. He is among numerous legendary football players born in football-rich Western Pennsylvania. He attended college at Wake Forest University, and was the Bears' second-round draft pick in 1951. He began his pro football career the following year as a middle guard in the then-standard five-man defensive front. He was selected to play in eight consecutive Pro Bowls, from 1954 to 1961. George is credited as the first true middle linebacker in football history and, inadvertently, the creator of the 4–3 defense. Noting during a 1954 game with the Philadelphia Eagles that his tendency to hit the center right after the snap led to the quarterback passing right over his head, he began to drop bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fortunato (American Football)
Joseph Francis Fortunato (March 28, 1930 – November 6, 2017) was an American professional football player who spent his entire 12-year National Football League (NFL) career playing linebacker for the Chicago Bears. A five-time Pro Bowl selection, he was the captain and signal-caller for the Bears defense, leading to an NFL Championship in 1963. Fortunato is one of only four players, and the only defensive player named to the National Football League 1950s All-Decade Team who has not yet been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Prior to the NFL, Fortunato played fullback and linebacker for Mississippi State University, and made All-American in 1951. Early life Fortunato was born on March 28, 1930, in Mingo Junction, Ohio. He worked in his grandparents’ grocery store as a child and in the steel mill as a teen. College career VMI Fortunato initially attended Virginia Military Institute (VMI) where he was a member of the VMI Keydets football team in 1949. Mississippi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Meadows
Edward Allen Meadows (February 19, 1932 – October 22, 1974) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Redskins. Early years Born and raised in Oxford, North Carolina, "Country" Meadows graduated from Oxford High School in 1950 and played college football at Duke University in Durham. An All-American, he had academic issues while in college, and was forced to withdraw after his junior season. He was selected in the third round of the 1954 NFL draft. Professional career Meadows became a controversial player in his third year due to a play in the 1956 regular season finale against the Detroit Lions. The Bears (8–2–1) hosted the Lions (9–2) at Wrigley Field and needed a win to claim the Western Conference title. Early in the second quarter, Meadows' vicious hit behind the play, a pitchout to running back Gene Gedman, knocked Detroit's hall of fame quarterba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Atkins
Douglas Leon Atkins (May 8, 1930 – December 30, 2015) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, and New Orleans Saints in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers under head coach Robert Neyland. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Atkins was a fierce defender who was known for using his immense size and agility to his advantage. At , Atkins often batted passes down at the line of scrimmage and used his skills as a high jump champion to leapfrog blockers and get to the quarterback. Atkins was one of the first great exclusively defensive players in professional football and, along with fellow Hall of Famer Gino Marchetti, revolutionized the defensive end position. Amateur career Atkins was born May 8, 1930, in Humboldt, Tennessee. He attended Humboldt High School and played for the school's basketball team, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Wightkin
William John Wightkin (July 28, 1927 – January 25, 1997) was an American football player. Career He played offensive tackle, defensive tackle and end for eight seasons between 1950 and 1957 for the Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF .... External links * 1997 deaths 1927 births American football offensive linemen Chicago Bears players Western Conference Pro Bowl players Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Players of American football from Detroit Detroit Catholic Central High School alumni {{offensive-lineman-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
