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New York Giant
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The team plays its home games at MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, west of New York City. The stadium is shared with the New York Jets. The Giants are headquartered and practice at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, also in the Meadowlands. The Giants were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, and they are History of the National Football League, the only one of that group still existing, as well as the league's longest-established team in the Northeastern United States. The team ranks third among all NFL franchises with History of the National Football League championship, eight NFL championship titles: four in the pre–Super Bowl era (1927, 1934, 1938, 1956) and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 New York Giants Season
The New York Giants season was the franchise's inaugural season in the National Football League. The team finished with a record of 8–4 against league opponents. Schedule * Games in ''italics'' are against non-NFL teams. Game Summaries NFL contests only; summaries for games against non-league teams are unavailable. Week 4: at Providence Steam Roller Week 5, Game 1: at Frankford Yellow Jackets Week 5, Game 2: vs. Frankford Yellow Jackets Week 7: vs. Cleveland Bulldogs Week 8, Game 1: vs. Buffalo Bisons Week 8, Game 2: vs. Columbus Tigers Week 9, Game 1: vs. Rochester Jeffersons Week 9, Game 2: vs. Providence Steam Roller Week 10: vs. Kansas City Cowboys Week 11: vs. Dayton Triangles Week 12: vs. Chicago Bears Week 13: at Chicago Bears Standings See also *List of New York Giants seasons External links 1925 New York Giants season at Pro Football Reference {{1925 NFL season by team New York Giants seasons New York Giants New York New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 NFL Championship Game
In the 1956 NFL Championship Game was the league's 24th championship game, played at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx in New York City on December 30. The New York Giants (8–3–1) won the Eastern Conference title and hosted the Chicago Bears (9–2–1), the Western Conference champions. The teams had met in the regular season five weeks earlier on November 25 at Yankee Stadium and played to a 17–17 tie; the Bears entered the championship game in late December as slight favorites. The Giants hosted because the home field for the title game alternated between the conferences; home field advantage was not implemented until . Both teams had been absent from the league title game for a decade, when the Bears won the championship over the Giants at the Polo Grounds in 1946. The Giants' most recent NFL title was before World War II, in 1938. The 1956 season marked the Giants' first at Yankee Stadium, moving across the Harlem River from the Polo Grounds. This was the first champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NFL Championship Game, 1962
The 1962 NFL Championship Game was the 30th NFL title game, played on December 30 at Yankee Stadium in New York City. It matched the New York Giants (12–2) of the Eastern Conference and Green Bay Packers (13–1) of the Western Conference, the defending league champions. The Packers were led by hall of fame head coach Vince Lombardi, in his fourth year, and the Giants by Allie Sherman, in his second season. Green Bay was favored by 6½ points. The attendance for the game was 64,892, and the weather during the game was so cold that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite. The conditions also made throwing the ball difficult. Green Bay won 16–7, behind the performances of game Most Valuable Player linebacker Ray Nitschke, and fullback Jim Taylor. Right guard Jerry Kramer, filling in as placekicker for the injured Paul Hornung, scored ten points with three field goals and an extra point. The Giants fumbled twice, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
