This is what the typical Green Bay Packers game program looked like in 1924. It looks more like what you might be handed after entering a high school football game now. Well, the N.F.L. still had a lot of growing to do back in only the League’s third year. This is from the October 19th game against the Milwaukee Badgers, which the Packers won 17-0 in front of 4,150 fans in Green Bay’s Bellevue Park. The Badgers played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926, playing their home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side. The team was notable for having a large number of African-American players for the time. The Badgers folded following the 1926 season (largely due to being left broke because of a $500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals).
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Boy, That’s a Long Time Ago...
This is what the typical Green Bay Packers game program looked like in 1924. It looks more like what you might be handed after entering a high school football game now. Well, the N.F.L. still had a lot of growing to do back in only the League’s third year. This is from the October 19th game against the Milwaukee Badgers, which the Packers won 17-0 in front of 4,150 fans in Green Bay’s Bellevue Park. The Badgers played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926, playing their home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side. The team was notable for having a large number of African-American players for the time. The Badgers folded following the 1926 season (largely due to being left broke because of a $500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals).