1944 NFL season

1944 NFL season

1944 edition of the NFL's press manual
Regular season
Duration	September 17 to December 17, 1944
East Champions	New York Giants
West Champions	Green Bay Packers
Championship Game
Champions	Green Bay Packers
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Giants

Eagles

Tigers

Redskins

Yanks

Bears

Packers

Rams

Lions

Two home fields
Card-Pitt

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NFL teams: West, East

The 1944 NFL season was the 25th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The ten teams in the league each played a ten game regular season schedule, making a total of 50 contests. This culminated with a Championship Playoff played at the Polo Grounds in New York City on December 17, 1944 — a game won by the Green Bay Packers over the New York Giants, 14–7.

The Boston Yanks joined the league as an expansion team. Also, the Brooklyn Dodgers franchise changed their name to the Brooklyn Tigers for this one season before merging with the aforementioned Yanks the following year. Meanwhile, both the Cleveland Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles resumed their traditional operations, while the Pittsburgh Steelers combined operations with another team again, this time with the Chicago Cardinals due to player shortages associated with World War II. The combined team, known as Card-Pitt, played three home games in Pittsburgh and two in Chicago.^[1]