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#JUEGO CHICAGO 1930 SERIES#

The high temperature for that Sunday in Chicago was 20 ☏ (−7 ☌), warmer than anticipated earlier in the week. CHB Safety, Mule Wilson tackled in end zone.

CHB Red Grange 2 yard pass from Bronko Nagurski ( Paul Engebretsen kick).

It was also decided that due to the smaller field and indoor stadium, drop kicks and field goals would not be used in the game.

For the first time, all plays started with the ball on or between the hash marks, which were ten yards from the sidelines.

Every time a team crossed the 10-yard line, the ball was moved back 20 yards to allow for the shortened field.

The goal posts were moved from the endlines to the goal lines (the NFL itself would move the goalposts to the goal line from 1933 to 1974).

The tanbark-covered field itself was only 80 yards long (60 yards between the goal lines) and 45 yards wide, 10 yards narrower than the regulation width at the time.

īecause of the limited dimensions of the indoor arena, special rules were adopted for the game: Ī week before the game, the concrete surface had tanbark placed atop for a Salvation Army-sponsored circus elephant manure from the circus produced an odor that caused a Bears player to throw up on the field. It wasn't an uncommon practice in the city, as local teams played in the Dexter Park Pavilion as early as 1917, when the Racine Cardinals and the Evanstons from Evanston, Illinois played to a scoreless tie. The game was moved indoors due to extreme weather, allowing for reasonable attendance and gate revenue. Two years earlier, the Bears and Cardinals had played a charity exhibition game at the arena after the 1930 season. The game was set to be played at Wrigley Field, the Bears' home stadium, but due to severe blizzards followed by extremely cold temperatures and wind chill, the game was moved indoors to Chicago Stadium. The game was played indoors at Chicago Stadium

The league was thus required to make a rule change, as championship-deciding postseason matches were banned in 1924, and for the first time, arranged for a single game (essentially a replay) to determine the NFL Champion.ĭespite the winner of the game being declared Champions, it was ruled the game would be counted in the final standings, meaning the loser would drop to 6–2 (.750), and would finish third behind runner-up Green Bay. As the two games ended in 13–13 and 7–7 ties, the tiebreaker failed.

įurther complicating matters, though the Spartans and Bears had played each other twice during the regular season and the league's head-to-head tiebreaker accounted for a split two-game series, the tiebreaker only applied if each team won one game (the winner of the second game would be awarded the tiebreaker). The Packers controlled their own destiny at the end of the 1932 season, but lost their last two games to the Spartans and the Bears. Had pure win–loss differential or the current (post-1972) system of counting ties as half a win, half a loss been in place in 1932, the Packers' record of 10–3–1 (.750, +7) would have won them a fourth consecutive Championship, ahead of the Spartans' 6–1–4 (.727, +5) and the Bears' 6–1–6 (.692, +5). 769 (10 wins, 3 losses) winning percentage. 857 winning percentages, ahead of the defending Champion Green Bay Packers'. Under the rules at the time, standings were based on winning percentage with ties excluded from the calculation: thus, the Spartans and Bears each finished the regular season with identical. In 1932, the Spartans and the Bears tied for first place with 6–1 records.

#JUEGO CHICAGO 1930 SERIES#

While four of the first six championships were disputed, only once, in 1921, did two teams ever finish tied atop the standings: the Chicago Staleys, who became the Bears the following year, and the Buffalo All-Americans finished with identical 9-1 records, and had split a two-game series with each other, but league officials used a tiebreaker to controversially give the Staleys the title over the All-Americans. Since the NFL's first season in 1920, the league title had been awarded to the team with the best regular season record based on winning percentage with ties excluded.