1st - GB - Goodnight, 14-yard pass from Jacobs (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 7-6
2nd - WASH - Tom Farmer, 1-yard run (Dick Poillon kick) WASHINGTON 13-7
4th - WASH - Dick Todd, 16-yard run (Poillon kick) WASHINGTON 20-7
4th - WASH - Poillon, 18-yard field goal WASHINGTON 23-7
October 31: Detroit Lions (1-5) 24, Green Bay Packers (3-4) 20
(DETROIT) - Green Bay's season began to spiral out of control. Trailing 14-7 at the half, the winless Detroit Lions scored 10 points in the third period and once in the last quarter to nip the sinking Packers. Clyde LeForce tallied the payoff counter on a play that covered 71 yards.
GREEN BAY - 7 7 0 6 - 20
DETROIT - 0 7 10 7 - 24
1st - GB - Fritsch, 6-yard fumble return (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 7-0
2nd - DET - Bob Mann, 7-yd pass from Fred Enke (Merv Pregulman kick) TIED 7-7
2nd - GB - Canadeo, 9-yard run (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 14-7
3rd - DET - Pregulman, 27-yard field goal GREEN BAY 14-10
3rd - DET - Joe Margucci, 55-yd pass fr Clyde LeForce (Pregulman kick) DET 17-14
4th - DET - LeForce, 33-yd lat. fr Enke after a 38-yd run (Pregulman kick) DET 24-14
4th - GB - Earhart, 50-yard pass from Comp (Kick failed) DETROIT 24-20
November 7: Pittsburgh Steelers (3-4) 38, Green Bay Packers (3-5) 7
(PITTSBURGH) - The Pittsburgh Steelers stunned the Green Bay Packers, 38-7, to end their three-game losing streak. Rookie Ray Evans ran and passed the Steelers to a 24-0 half-time lead and the Packers never recovered.
GREEN BAY - 0 0 0 7 - 7
PITTSBURGH - 7 17 7 7 - 38
1st - PITT - Val Jansante, 7-yard pass from Ray Evans (Joe Glamp kick) PITT 7-0
2nd - PITT - Glamp, 33-yard field goal PITTSBURGH 10-0
2nd - PITT - Jerry Shipkey, 1-yard run (Glamp kick) PITTSBURGH 17-0
November 14: Chicago Bears (7-1) 7, Green Bay Packers (3-6) 6
(CHICAGO) - The Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers staged one of their traditional bruising battles, with the hard pressed Bears finally scraping a 7-6 triumph before 48,113 fans at Wrigley Field. The Western Division co-leading Bears scored in the third period for a 7-0 margin, but the aroused Packers tallied with little more than three minutes of the game left. Green Bay's Ed Cody was wide and low on his extra point placement try and that was the game.
GREEN BAY - 0 0 0 6 - 6
CHI BEARS - 0 0 7 0 - 7
3rd - CHI - George McAfee, 34-yd pass fr Bobby Layne (Al Lawler kick) BEARS 7-0
4th - GB - Luhn, 13-yard pass from Jacobs (Kick failed) CHICAGO BEARS 7-6
November 21: New York Giants (3-6) 49, Green Bay Packers (3-7) 3
(MILWAUKEE) - Green Bay jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but then looked so bad in losing to New York, 49-3, that Coach Curley Lambeau asked waivers on one player and declared he'd "like to get rid of 10 or 12 more. We were a disgraceful lot out there." It was the Packers' worst loss in history. Charlie Conerly, the Giants' prize rookie, completed 20 out of 30 passes for 305 yards and three touchdowns, and ran for another, before leaving after the third quarter.
NEW YORK - 0 21 14 14 - 49
GREEN BAY - 3 0 0 0 - 3
1st - GB - Fritsch, 24-yard field goal GREEN BAY 3-0
2nd - NY - Choo-Choo Roberts, 9-yd pass fr Charlie Conerly (Younce kick) NY 7-3
2nd - NY - Bruce Gehrke, 3-yard pass from Conerly (Len Younce kick) NY 14-3
2nd - NY - Emlen Tunnell, 43-yard interception return (Younce kick) NY 21-3
3rd - NY - Bill Swiacki, 31-yard pass from Conerly (Younce kick) NEW YORK 28-3
3rd - NY - Conerly, 1-yard run (Younce kick) NEW YORK 35-3
4th - NY - Ray Coates, 2-yard run (Younce kick) NEW YORK 42-3
4th - NY - Coates, 3-yard run (Younce kick) NEW YORK 49-3
November 28: Los Angeles Rams (4-5-1) 24, Green Bay Packers (3-8) 10
(LOS ANGELES) - The Rams earned full revenge for the 16-0 licking the Packers handed them at Green Bay earlier in the season. The Rams rolled up 23 first downs to eight for Green Buy in winning 24-10. Los Angeles was the better team rushing - 239 yards to 97, and completed 18 out of 28 passes for 206 yards while Green Bay's 14 completions in 34 tries netted but 100 yards.
GREEN BAY - 0 10 0 0 - 10
LOS ANGELES - 7 7 7 3 - 24
1st - LA - Red Hickey, 34-yard pass from Bob Waterfield (Waterfield kick) LA 7-0
2nd - GB - Fritsch, 31-yard field goal GREEN BAY 10-7
2nd - LA - Dick Hoerner, 1-yard run (Waterfield kick) LOS ANGELES 14-10
3rd - LA - Kenny Washington, 7-yard run (Waterfield kick) LOS ANGELES 21-10
4th - LA - Waterfield, 37-yard field goal LOS ANGELES 24-10
December 5: Chicago Cardinals (10-1) 42, Green Bay Packers (3-9) 7
(CHICAGO) - The worst season yet in Packer history came to an end in the Windy City. The loss, 42-7, was the fourth time the Packers had lost this season by more than 30 points - a record which is still on the books. A driving rain didn't faze the powerful Cardinals as they rolled to their 10th victory, setting the stage for a season-ending battle with the Bears at Wrigley Field to determine the Western Division title. For the Packers, the season came to an odd end after the game, as Curly Lambeau returned the money he had withheld from the players after their earlier loss to the Cardinals. But it was too little too late, as the Packer franchise entered into its own version of the Dark Ages for the next 10 years.
GREEN BAY - 7 0 0 0 - 7
CHI CARDS - 7 7 7 21 - 42
1st - CHI - Mal Kutner, 12-yd pass from Ray Mallouf (Pat Harder kick) CARDS 7-0
2nd - CHI - Paul Christman, 1-yard run (Harder kick) CHICAGO CARDINALS 14-7
3rd - CHI - Harder, 1-yard run (Harder kick) CHICAGO CARDINALS 21-7
4th - CHI - Kutner, 61-yard pass from Christman (Harder kick) CARDINALS 28-7
4th - CHI - Mallouf, 1-yard run (Harder kick) CHICAGO CARDINALS 35-7
4th - CHI - Vic Schwall, 18-yard run (Harder kick) CHICAGO CARDINALS 42-7
September 17: Green Bay Packers (1-0) 31, Boston Yanks (0-1) 0
(BOSTON) - The Yanks' pre-season boast was that they had stiffened every spot for their fifth campaign in the NFL, but the improvements were barely visible during the one-sided action with the high-rolling Packers in a Friday night opener at Fenway Park. Green Bay had the game in complete control from start to finish, holding the Yanks to a scant 16 yards rushing, while the Packers ripped off 274 yards on the ground. Green Bay rolled up 19 first downs to nine for the Yanks. In fact, the Packers punted for the first time in the third period. The kick touched off Boston's only sustained drive, which moved from the Boston 32-yard line to the Green Bay seven and then sputtered out. The only negative for the Packers was their 12 penalties, which cost them 111 yards. Of Green Bay's four touchdowns, fleet-footed Ralph Earhart had the most spectacular - a 72-yard romp in the third quarter. It was his only rushing touchdown.
GREEN BAY - 10 7 7 7 - 31
BOSTON - 0 0 0 0 - 0
1st - GB - Fritsch, 25-yard field goal GREEN BAY 3-0
1st - GB - Forte, 14-yard pass from Jacobs (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 10-0
2nd - GB - Luhn, 20-yard pass from Provo (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 17-0
3rd - GB - Earhart, 72-yard run (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 24-0
4th - GB - Canadeo, 1-yard run (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 31-0
September 26: Chicago Bears (1-0) 45, Green Bay Packers (1-1) 7
(GREEN BAY) - Chicago forced six turnovers and ran for 240 yards in handing the Packers their worst loss so far in the teams' 60-game series. The Bears' trio of passing quarterbacks - Sid Luckman, Johnny Lujack and Bobby Layne - were at their best as they led a 45- to 7 rout. Luckman pitched for one touchdown pass in the third period. Lujack, the field general of last year's unbeaten Notre Dame squad, thilled the Wisconsin crowd by prancing for one touchdown and intercepting three passes to set up two other scores. Layne, another All-American back from Texas, got into the act by unloading a 45-yard touchdown pass in the final quarter.
CHI BEARS - 14 17 7 7 - 45
GREEN BAY - 0 0 0 7 - 7
1st - CHI - Johnny Lujack, 3-yard run (Fred Venturelli kick) CHICAGO BEARS 7-0
2nd - CHI - Venturelli, 12-yard field goal CHICAGO BEARS 17-0
2nd - CHI - George McAfee, 10-yard run (Venturelli kick) CHICAGO BEARS 24-0
2nd - CHI - Mike Holovak, 10-yard run (Venturelli kick) CHICAGO BEARS 31-0
3rd - CHI - Ed Sprinkle, 1-yard pass from Sid Luckman (Venturelli kick) BEARS 38-0
4th - GB - Schlinkman, 1-yard run (Cody kick) CHICAGO BEARS 38-7
4th - CHI - Sprinkle, 34-yard pass from Bobby Layne (Venturelli kick) BEARS 45-7
October 3: Green Bay Packers (2-1) 33, Detroit Lions (0-2) 21
(GREEN BAY) - It took one quarter for Green Bay to recover from its shellacking of a week ago by the Chicago Bears, as they rolled to a 33-21 decision over the Detroit Lions. With Bill Dudley on the sidelines, the Lions couldn't do much about manufacturing a scoring offensive. Jack Jacobs' passing was the Packers' best weapon. The former Oklahoma star completed 12 of 19 tosses. Tony Canadeo ran for 118 yards rushing, as the Packers posted season highs in yards (423), yards rushing (268) and first downs (21).
DETROIT - 7 0 0 14 - 21
GREEN BAY - 0 13 10 10 - 33
1st - DET - Clyde LeForce, 19-yd pass fr Fred Enke (Merv Pregulman kick) DET 7-0
2nd - GB - Schlinkman, 1-yard run (Kick failed) GREEN BAY 13-7
3rd - GB - Jacobs, 1-yard run (Fritsch kick) GREEN BAY 20-7
3rd - GB - Fritsch, 27-yard field goal GREEN BAY 23-7
4th - DET - Joe Margucci, 4-yard run (Pregulman kick) GREEN BAY 23-14
4th - GB - Fritsch, 45-yard field goal GREEN BAY 26-14
4th - DET - LeForce, 17-yard lateral from Margucci after a 4-yard run (Pregulman kick) GREEN BAY 26-21
4th - GB - Canadeo, 5-yard run (Cody kick) GREEN BAY 33-21
October 10: Chicago Cardinals (2-1) 17, Green Bay Packers (2-2) 7
(MILWAUKEE) - Green Bay fell to the Chicago Cardinals, 17-7, and virtually all title hopes went down with the Packers. The loss gave the Packers a 2-2 record, one notch above the cellar club—Detroit. The contest was strictly a mediocre showing. before 34,369 fans, a Milwaukee record. The Packers were most off form, but even the defending champion Cardinals showed no spark. The two Cardinal touchdowns were just flashes of class. There were no sustained drives. Elmer Angsman ran 72 yards for the first Cardinal score midway in the first quarter. Charley Trippi made a touchdown trip with another Jacobs' punt in the second quarter, carrying 42 yards. Pat Harder added a 10-yard field goal. The Green Bay score came as the spcctalors begun to head toward the exits. With 75 seconds left, Dick Wildung recovered a fumble on the 2-yard line and Ken Roskie went over on the next play. Chicago was playing without QB Paul Christman, who fractured his left wrist a week ago. Packer coach Curly Lambeau, angry at his team's play, withheld the players' salaries following the loss.
CHI CARDS - 7 7 0 3 - 17
GREEN BAY - 0 0 0 7 - 7
1st - CHI - Elmer Angsman, 72-yard run (Pat Harder kick) CARDINALS 7-0
2nd - CHI - Charley Trippi, 45-yard punt return (Harder kick) CARDINALS 14-0
4th - CHI - Harder, 10-yard field goal CHICAGO CARDINALS 17-0
4th - GB - Roskie, 2-yard run (Cody kick) CHICAGO CARDINALS 17-7
October 17: Green Bay Packers (3-2) 16, Los Angeles Rams (1-2) 0
(GREEN BAY) - The Packers, smarting from the fines imposed by Curly Lambeau for their miserable showing last week, had just enough spark to win over the Los Angeles Rams, 16-0. Six Packers intercepted seven passes, and Tony Canadeo had his second 100-yard rushing day of the season. Despite the win, Lambeau did not return the wages he had withheld following the Cardinals' loss, and the subsequent drop in morale sent Green Bay into a season-killing tailspin.
LOS ANGELES - 0 0 0 0 - 0
GREEN BAY - 6 7 3 0 - 16
1st - GB - Earhart, 64-yard pass from Jacobs (Kick failed) GREEN BAY 6-0
2nd - GB - Schlinkman, 3-yard run (Fritsch kick) GREEN BAY 13-0
3rd - GB - Fritsch, 43-yard field goal GREEN BAY 16-0
October 24: Washington Redskins (3-2) 23, Green Bay Packers (3-3) 7
(MILWAUKEE) - Green Bay looked dull in losing to Washington, 23-7. It was a meager crowd of only 13,433 which hoped to see the Packers romp over the same Redskins they had trounced 43-0 in an exhibition game earlier in the season. But the fans had hardly settled themselves when Dan Sandifer took the opening kickoff and eased himself through the entire Packer squad for a 96-yard touchdown. The Redskins kicked off and the Packers drove from their own 20 to the Washington goal in 11 plays with Jack Jacobs heaving 14 yards to Clyde Goodnight for the score. Washington soon rose up again and began a march that ended early in the second period when Tom Farmer plowed over from the one to give the Redskins the lead for keeps. Four times the Packers drove to within the Washington 15, and four times they were turned back. The Skins had 20 first downs to Green Bay's 15, 250 yards rushing to the Packers' 189, but only 50 yards through the air compared to
Bruce Smith 42 HB 6- 0 197 Minnesota 4 4 28 4 1942 Draft - 13th round
Ed Smith 21 HB 6- 0 185 Texas-El Paso 1 1 25 12 1948 Draft - 3rd round
Damon Tassos 15 G 6- 1 225 Texas A&M 2 4 24 11 1947 FA - Det (1946)
Evan Vogds 79 G 5-10 215 Wisconsin 1 1 25 12
Don Wells 43 E 6- 2 200 Georgia 3 3 26 12 1945 Draft - 6th round
Pat West 25 FB 6- 0 201 USC 1 4 25 3 1948 FA-LA Rams (1948)
Dick Wildung 45 G 6- 0 220 Minnesota 3 3 27 12 1943 Draft - 1st round
Gene Wilson 65 G 5-10 180 SMU 2 2 22 13 1947 Draft - 6th round
NO - Jersey Number POS - Position HGT - Height WGT - Weight YR - Years with Packers PR - Years of Professional Football AGE - Age at Start of Season G - Games Played
1948 IN REVIEW: After an early-season 17-7 loss to the Chicago Cardinals, coach Curly Lambeau fined the entire team half of their weekly salary for "indifferent" play. The players did not feel they had been indifferent, but they believed that they a good game against the Rams would get their money back. Green Bay easily downed Los Angeled, 16-0, bringing their record to 3-2. Expecting an extra-large paycheck, the players blew their stack when they did not get back their money. Morale dropped to zero, and the Packers lost every remaining game of the year. Finally, in January 1949, when it was too late, Lambeau returned the players' money.
17 G-LOS ANGELES RAMS (1-1-1) W 16- 0 3-2-0 25,119
24 M-WASHINGTON REDSKINS (2-2-0) L 7-23 3-3-0 13,433
31 at Detroit Lions (0-5-0) L 20-24 3-4-0 16,174
NOVEMBER (0-4)
7 at Pittsburgh Steelers (2-4-0) L 7-38 3-5-0 26,058
14 at Chicago Bears (6-1-0) L 6- 7 3-6-0 48,113
21 M-NEW YORK GIANTS (2-6-0) L 3-49 3-7-0 12,639
28 at Los Angeles Rams (3-5-1) L 10-24 3-8-0 23,874
DECEMBER (0-1)
5 at Chicago Cardinals (9-1) L 7-42 3-9-0 26,072
1948 PRE-SEASON RESULTS (3-0) - AUGUST
29 New York Giants at Minneapolis W 7- 0 1-0-0 15,000
SEPTEMBER
5 G-PITTSBURGH STEELERS W 9- 7 2-0-0 13,900
11 Washington Redskins at Birmingham W 43- 0 3-0-0 27,000
1948 REGULAR SEASON RESULTS (3-9) - SEPTEMBER (1-1)
17 at Boston Yanks (0-0-0) W 31- 0 1-0-0 15,443
26 G-CHICAGO BEARS (0-0-0) L 7-45 1-1-0 25,546
OCTOBER (2-3)
3 G-DETROIT LIONS (0-1-0) W 33-21 2-1-0 24,206
10 M-CHICAGO CARDINALS (1-1-0) L 7-17 2-2-0 34,369
August 29: Green Bay Packers 7, New York Giants 0
(MINNEAPOLIS) - A final period rally and a 41-yard touchdown run by Ralph Earhart gave the Packers a 7-0 win over the New York Giants in their exhibition game here yesterday. Earhart converted for the extra point. The game was played for Minneapolis Catholic charities with a sell-out crowd of 14,000. The Giants and Packers battled through the first three periods without any serious scoring threats. The Giants were unable to click on their aerial attacks as the Packers smeared the Giants passer, Paul Governali. Paul Walker was a standout in the Giant defense. In the Packer lineup, Bruce Smith got away for one 35-yard run but the Giants' defense tightened.
NEW YORK - 0 0 0 7 - 0
GREEN BAY - 0 0 6 0 - 7
4th - GB - Earhart, 41-yard run (Earhart run) GREEN BAY 7-0
September 5: Green Bay Packers 9, Pittsburgh Steelers 7
(GREEN BAY) - The Green Bay Packers defeated Pittsburgh 9-7 in an exhibition game. Ted Fritsch made the first score on a 21-yard field goal in the first quarter. The clubs batted back and forth in high 80 degree heat until late in the third period when halfback Steve Lach climaxed an 87-yard Steeler drive by pushing over for a touchdown from the two-yard line. George Glamp converted. In the final period the Packers drove 83 yards on the ground and Fritsch went over from the one. His kick for the extra point was blocked Each club made only one other serious scoring threat The Steelers marched to the 17 yard line in the third quarter but lost the ball on a pass interception. In the final period the Packers stalled on Pittsburgh s five-yard marker
PITTSBURGH - 0 0 0 7 - 7
GREEN BAY - 3 0 0 6 - 9
1st - GB - Fritsch, 21-yard field goal GREEN BAY 3-0
4th - PITT - Steve Lach, 2-yard run (George Glamp kick) PITTSBURGH 7-3
4th - GB - Fritsch, 1-yard run (Kick blocked) GREEN BAY 9-7
September 11: Green Bay Packers 43, Washington Redskins 0
(BIRMINGHAM) - The Green Bay Packers scored in every period to swamp the Washington Redskins, 43-0, in an exhibition football game today before 27,000 fans. Harry Gilmer, ex-Alabama great, now with the Redskins, got into the contest for only one play. That was a short pass, dropped by Hugh Taylor, in the second period. A leg injury to the Birmingham halfback prevented further action on his part. Gilmer's failure to participate in the Aug. 28 game between the college all-stars and the Chicago Cardinals has been the source of a controversy between the Chicago Tribune Charities, sponsors of the game, and the Redskins. The Packers lost no time in asserting their mastery of the situation today. On the second play, Tony Canadeo broke through left tackle and raced 54 yards to the Redskin 18. Jack Jacobs threw a 7-yard pass to Ted Cook, like Gilmer a Birmingham boy, for the touchdown. Jacobs set up the second Packer touchdown with a 53-yard pass to Clyde Goodnight. The Redskins couldn't stop the Packer parade from there on. Sammy Baugh, the star Washington passer, was well-rushed all day by the Packer line. He tried' 17 passes and completed nine for 94 yards, but could not connect in the scoring zone.
WASHINGTON - - - - - - 0
GREEN BAY - - - - - - 43
GB TD's * Cook, 7-yard pass from Jacobs * Cody, 2-yard run * Goodnight, 55-yard pass from Jacobs * Cody run * Roskie, 10-yard interception return
GB FG's: Fritsch (35, 43, 46), 4 XPs
1948 PACKERS DRAFT (December 19, 1947)
RNDSELNAMEPOSCOLLEGE
1 7 Jug Girard B Wisconsin
2 Did Not Draft
3 19 Ed Smith B Texas Mines
4 Did Not Draft
*-5a 27 Don Richards T Arkansas
5b 31 Wayman Sellers E Georgia
6 41 Larry Olsonoski G Minnesota
7 51 Jay Rhodemyre C Kentucky
8 61 Bob Cunz T Illinois
9 71 to New York Giants
10 81 George Walmsley B Rice
11 91 Bob Hodges T Bradley
12 101 Bob Rennebohm E Wisconsin
13 111 Perry Moss B Illinois
14 121 Fred Provo B Washington
15 131 Lou Agase T Illinois
16 141 Travis Raven B Texas
17 151 to Washington Redskins
18 161 Ken Balge E Michigan State
19 171 Charley Tatom T Texas
20 181 Floyd Thomas C Arkansas
21 191 Herb St. John G Georgia
22 201 Don Anderson B Rice
23 211 Fred Kling B Missouri
24 221 Clyde Biggers T Catawba
25 231 Stan Heath B Nevada-Reno
26 241 Aubrey Allen T Colorado
27 251 Stan Gorski E Northwestern
28 261 Don Sharp C Tulsa
29 271 John Panelli B Notre Dame
30 281 Clarence McGeary T North Dakota State
31 289 Mike Mills E Brigham Young
32 296 Earhart, Ralph B 1948 Texas Tech
* - from Detroit
BOLD - Played for the Packers
1948 PACKERS TRADES
SEPT 11 - Traded C Frank Syzmanski to Philadelphia for T James Kekeris
