L=Loss. Return to Top; Players. "Neil" Murphy, a local typewriter salesman, was named business manager in July, and he organized a committee to build a fence around the Hagemeister playing field so the Packers could charge admission. After his father died when Clayton was 7, he and his mother and sister, Lucille, sold their farm at auction and moved to the town of Rush City, Minnesota. The normal in-person NFL offseason was switched to a virtual program for the spring. Do you have a sports website? Their investors were their fans. Regular season File:Don Majkowski BrettFavre-Edit.JPG Don Majkowski (right) 1987-1992 The team finished with a 210 record under coach Curly Lambeau for a fifth-place finish in the Western Conference. By then, Braatz also had been fired and replaced by Ron Wolf, who was given the title of general manager and complete control over the Packers' football operation. Previous Season Next Season. The Acme Packing Co., based in Chicago, had purchased Indian Packing eight months earlier. Adams had a historically great season, setting the franchise record for receptions in a season with 115 and tying WR Sterling Sharpe (1994) for the most receiving TDs in a season with 18 (tied for No. The Packers defeated the Seattle Seahawks in the divisional round, 28-23, to advance to their first NFC title contest since 2016. Before the war this was not allowed. [2] Early life [ edit] Duke, Miami (FL) 3/19/1921. 2 in the NFL in scoring defense at 15.0 points per game. The 1949 Green Bay Packers roster for the NFL regular season and playoffs. The team conducted most of its practices that first year on a field next to the Indian Packing plant at the end of Morrow Street, but it played its eight home games at Hagemeister Park on an open field with no fence or bleachers. But when Hutson retired following the 1945 season, hard times followed. Harlan had joined the Packers when Devine was coach and general manager and had witnessed each coaching hire in the years since finish with a worse record than his predecessor. Braatz had been hired prior to Gregg's final season as coach in a powersharing arrangement and was fired one week before Wolf was hired. The following week they traveled to Atlanta and beat the top-seeded Falcons, 48-21, on the strength of a near-flawless display of quarterbacking by Rodgers (31 of 36 for 366 yards and three TDs). Green Bay Packers / 9th / 72nd pick / 1947. In 1992, the Packers surprised the NFL with a 9-7 finish. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Appropriately, the first two wins were before their Lambeau loyalists a 35-14 divisional triumph over the 49ers and a 30-13 win over the upstart Carolina Panthers in the NFC title game. Do you have a blog? Despite the injuries, the Packers never blinked. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Can you list the top facts and stats about 1949 Green Bay Packers season? [2] Along with Leo Nomellini, Tonnemaker was part of a defensive line that allowed "an average of less than nine points a game in the '49ers final season".[3]. (Schedule and Results), Other Notable Asst. They drew 15,000 fans to City Stadium despite cold, blustery weather and raised. Wolf's impressive nine-year tenure included 101 total victories (including eight in the playoffs) and the NFL's best regular-season record (83-45) since the 1993 advent of free agency. Record: 2-10-0, 5th in Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. : Walt Kiesling (Line Coach), Head Coach/General Manager: Curly Lambeau, Training Camp: Rockwood Lodge (New Franken, Wisconsin), Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Thursday, March 2, 6:19AM. Calhoun "passed a hat," as did others, to collect spare change and help cover expenses. Then, they captured their first NFL title since 1967, dispatching New England, 35-21, in Super Bowl XXXI at the Louisiana Superdome. W=Win. N=Neutral site game. : Walt Kiesling (Line Coach) But then scandal nearly doomed all that they had accomplished. Despite no offseason program and an abbreviated training-camp schedule due to the work stoppage, the Packers recorded a franchise best 15-1 record in 2011, becoming just the sixth team in NFL history to reach the 15-win plateau, and when combining the start of 2011 with the six wins that closed out 2010, the 19-game winning streak was the longest in team history and second longest in league annals. Green Bay Packers: Year Record Finish (Regular / Post Season) Coach; 2022: 8-9-0: 3rd -- NFC North--Matt LaFluer: Roster / Stats: 2021: 13-4-0: 1st -- NFC North: . Back home after dropping out of school in December, Lambeau was working for Indian Packing at the time. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. Record: 89-29-4. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Latest on Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb including news, stats, videos, highlights and more on ESPN . The Lombardi era (coaching only) was from 1959-1967 and his teams. Or write about sports? Join our linker program. (Schedule and Results), Other Notable Asst. The Packers became the first team since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to never trail a game by more than seven points over an entire season. Green Bay won the NFC North for the second consecutive season, and the 11-1 (.917) record in division games in LaFleur's first two seasons was the best two-year division record for Green Bay since going 11-1 in 2011-12. Jug Girard tossed for 881 yards. In the secondary, Woodson set career highs in tackles and forced fumbles, becoming the team's emotional leader throughout. Bent sued the Packers and was awarded roughly $5,000 following a trial in February 1933. Teams would first report to their facilities for in-person practice and meetings in late July for training camp, and all preseason games were canceled. Rodgers also earned All-Pro honors from the AP for the fifth time (first team in 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021, second team in 2012) and was selected to the Pro Bowl for the 10th time in his career (2009, 2011-12, 2014-16, 2018-21), passing Favre and T Forrest Gregg for the most Pro Bowl selections by a Packer. 1 seed in the NFC for the third time since 1990 (1996, 2011), the Packers beat the Los Angeles Rams to earn a trip to the NFC title game for the ninth time since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger and the fourth time since 2014 (2014, 2016, 2019), the most in the NFC over that span. Matthews, who racked up 13 sacks, was voted a Pro Bowl starter and a consensus first-team All-Pro and was named the league's defensive player of the year by various publications. ROSTER - Green Bay Packers 1949. Meanwhile, the Packers also were losing money on their training quarters at Rockwood Lodge, located along the bay about 15 miles northeast of Green Bay, and Lambeau was immersed in a power struggle with several members of the board of directors. Over the course of the 1921 and 1922 seasons, the Packers underwent a transformation where they replaced most of their local talent with players from bigtime colleges or other pro teams. After settling for a 4-8-2 record during his first year, Devine and the Packers appeared on the road to new heights when 1972 produced a 10-4 record and the team's first Central Division title since 1967. 1 against the run for the first time in team history, setting a franchise record for the fewest rushing yards allowed per game (83.3). Not to be forgotten, the 2003 season included changes to three of the most-revered records in Packers history (Gregg's 33-year-old consecutive-games streak, broken by Favre; Taylor's 41-year-old season rushing record, surpassed by Ahman Green; and Hutson's 58-year-old career scoring mark, eclipsed by Ryan Longwell). By Thanksgiving Day 1949, the Packers had to play an intrasquad game to raise enough money to finish the season. Do you have a blog? The Packers stormed out to a 21-3 lead in the first half, with two touchdowns coming off the arm of Rodgers and one on an interception return by Collins. Holmgren guided the Packers into the playoffs in 1993, forging a second straight 9-7 record. C.M. The team finished with a 210 record under coach Curly Lambeau for a fifth-place finish in the Western Conference. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Rodgers led an offense that scored the second-most points in a season (509) in team history (560 in 2011) and joined Favre (1995-97) as the only Packers to win the AP MVP three times (2011, 2014, 2020). Green Bay's first adversity came over the next three games, with the Packers falling at Tampa Bay and at home against Minnesota with a win at Houston in between. He said Turnbull promised that if club officials went ahead and played their game that day, he would get Green Bay's business community to rally behind the team once the season ended. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Harlan was determined to put an end to the drought. From one giant to another. The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari. Thompson transitioned to a role as senior advisor to football operations while Brian Gutekunst was named general manager and Russ Ball was promoted to executive vice president/director of football operations. Starr asked for "the prayers and patience of Packer fans everywhere We will earn everything else.". As a result, they were highly competitive on the field from the beginning and, in turn, able to establish a firm foothold within the league. The other problems came to a head when Lambeau resigned a week later, ending his 31-year association with the franchise, to become head coach of the Chicago Cardinals. Find out more. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Frank Clayton "Clayt" Tonnemaker (June 8, 1928 - December 25, 1996) was an American football player who played center and linebacker for the Green Bay Packers from 1950 to 1954. The Packers not only brought in a new coach in 2019, but Gutekunst also added veteran LBs Za'Darius Smith and Preston Smith as well as S Adrian Amos and G/T Billy Turner, who would all become key contributors. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1949_Green_Bay_Packers_season&oldid=1137539203, This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 04:34. The team finished with a 3-9 record under coach Curly Lambeau, earning a fourth-place finish in the Western Conference. The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari. On defense, the team set a franchise record with seven touchdowns, including six on interception returns, leading to Pro Bowl berths for three-fourths of the starting secondary in Nick Collins, Charles Woodson and Al Harris. Hundley finished out a season that ended with a 7-9 record. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Company. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. On Dec. 24, 1983, Forrest Gregg, a former Starr teammate and one of the premier offensive tackles in football history, became the Packers' ninth head coach. 1969 Green Bay Packers Roster & Players. In 2012, the club recovered from a 2-3 start to win nine of the final 11 games and back-to-back NFC North titles. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Rookies and first-year players in italics. They finished with a 10-6 record and secured the sixth and final seed in the NFC's playoff bracket. 4 during halftime of the Packers' first home Thanksgiving game since 1923. Having given up five prime draft picks in the Hadl deal, the Packers finished 4-10, 5-9 and 4-10 again in Starr's first three seasons. 1949 Green Bay Packers Roster & Players Previous Season Next Season Record: 2-10-0, 5th in NFL West Division ( Schedule and Results ) Coach: Curly Lambeau (2-10-0) Points For: 114 (9.5/g) 10th of 10 Points Against: 329 (27.4/g) 8th of 10 Expected W-L: 0.9-11.1 SRS: -16.07 (9th of 10), SOS: 1.85 Other Notable Asst. All rights reserved. Tonnemaker was an All-American at the University of Minnesota, where he played center linebacker. Find out more. True to his word, Turnbull led the effort to create the nonprofit Green Bay Football Corporation before the start of the next season. Record: 3-9-0, 4th in NFL West Division We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. They continued their regression in 1974, going 6-8, and Devine resigned. Calhoun, great grandson of Daniel Whitney, founder of the city of Green Bay, was city editor at the Press-Gazette. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. Basketball Stats - NBA - ABA - WNBA/Women's - G-League/D-League - Minor League Basketball - Search Lacrosse Stats - MLL - NLL - Lacrosse Search [5] The Packers made him their number one National Football League draft pick in 1950 (4th in the NFL overall),[6] and paid him $8,000 a year, the top salary on the team. 27. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Rodgers' NFL-leading 121.5 passer rating was the second-highest single-season mark by a quarterback in NFL history, trailing only his 122.5 rating in 2011. Join our linker program. Nor was it spelled out if much of the preliminary work had been completed beforehand or if the meeting itself triggered a rapid-fire chain of events. Record: 6-5-1, 3rd in All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. A=Away game. Join our linker program. Named first-team All-Pro by The Associated Press in 2021. The offseason saw Favre elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In a seesaw affair, Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego found the Packers trailing Denver at halftime, 17-14. Too much time has passed. The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League ended the 1948 season with a record of 3 wins and 9 losses, finishing fourth in the NFL's West Division. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? . Although Lombardi had been backfield coach of the New York Giants for eight years, he was relatively unknown in a sports world much different than today's. Find out the latest on your favorite NFL players on CBSSports.com. In the third-coldest game in NFL championship history, with a temperature of minus 1 and wind chill of minus 23 at kickoff, Green Bay fell at home, 23-20, in overtime to the New York Giants in the NFC Championship Game. LaFleur (39-10, .796) passed George Seifert (38-10, .791, 1989-91) for the most wins by an NFL head coach in his first three seasons in the league. On Jan. 14, 2005, Harlan restructured the team's football operations, naming Ted Thompson general manager, with full authority over football decisions. He was handcuffed by a disastrous trade for aging quarterback John Hadl, which was agreed to by Devine just before the trade deadline of his final season. The Packers again played an independent schedule against mostly neighboring towns the next year and again dominated the competition, finishing 9-1-1. He is the only player in league history with 115-plus catches, 1,350-plus receiving yards and 11-plus receiving TDs in back-to-back seasons (2020-21). 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