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). Each of the ten teams in the league played a ten game regular season schedule — 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.

In 1944 the Boston Yanks joined the NFL as an expansion team, while the floundering Brooklyn Dodgers rebranded as the Brooklyn Tigers for one final season before merging with the Boston newcomers in 1945. Both the Cleveland Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles resumed operations in 1944, while the Pittsburgh Steelers chose to combine operations again, this time with the Chicago Cardinals. This combined team, known as Card-Pitt, played three home games in Pittsburgh and two in Chicago.^[1]