The 1941 Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

 season was their 21st season in the National Football League

National Football League

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. The club posted a 10-1 record under coach Curly Lambeau

Curly Lambeau

Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau was founder, player, and first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team...

, earning a tie for first place in the Western Conference with the Chicago Bears

Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

. The Packers and Bears played a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine who would play in the NFL Championship Game

NFL Championship Game, 1941

The 1941 National Football League Championship game was the 9th annual championship game and was held December 21, 1941 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The game was played two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The attendance was 13,341, the smallest ever to see an NFL title game...

. The Packers lost 33-14 to the Bears, in the first post-season game ever played between the archrivals. The second post-season game came 70 years later, in the NFC Conference Championship game on January 22, 2011.

NFL Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	School/Club Team
1	7	George Paskvan George Paskvan George O. Paskvan was a former fullback/defensive back in the National Football League who only played 7 games for the Green Bay Packers. In 1941, the Green Bay Packers used the 7th pick in the 1st round of the 1941 NFL Draft to sign Paskvan out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison...	Back	Wisconsin
3	21	Bob Paffrath Bob Paffrath Robert William Paffrath is a former professional American football halfback. He played for the Miami Seahawks and the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference and in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Edmonton Eskimos...	Back	Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
5	37	Ed Frutig Ed Frutig Edward C. Frutig was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1938-1940. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940 by William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A teammate of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon for three years at...	End	Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
6	46	Herm Rohrig Herm Rohrig Herm Rohrig was a former player in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1941 NFL Draft and would play three seasons with the team. Following his retirement as a player, he worked as an official and a scout in the NFL and would serve as an...	Defensive Back Defensive back In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...	Nebraska
7	57	Bill Telesmanic	End	San Francisco University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...
8	66	Bill Kuusisto Bill Kuusisto William E. Kuusisto was an offensive lineman in the National Football League who played for the Green Bay Packers. Kuusisto played collegiate ball for the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin before being drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 8th round of the 1941 NFL Draft. ...	Guard Guard (American football) In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....	Minnesota
9	77	Tony Canadeo Tony Canadeo Anthony Robert "Tony" Canadeo was a professional football player, a halfback and quarterback for the NFL's Green Bay Packers from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1952, having missed the 1945 season while serving in the United States Army during World War II.Born and raised in Chicago, Tony Canadeo...	Halfback Halfback (American football) A halfback, sometimes referred to as a tailback, is an offensive position in American football, which lines up in the backfield and generally is responsible for carrying the ball on run plays. Historically, from the 1870s through the 1950s, the halfback position was both an offensive and defensive...	Gonzaga Gonzaga University Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...
10	86	Mike Byelene	Back	Purdue Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
11	97	Paul Heimenz	Center Center (American football) Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...	Northwestern Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
12	106	Mike Enich	Tackle	Iowa University of Iowa The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
13	117	Ed Heffernan	Back	St. Mary's (CA)
14	126	Del Lyman Del Lyman Marion Dell Lyman was a player in the National Football League.-Career:Lyman was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the fourteenth round of the 1941 NFL Draft and split that season between the Packers and the Cleveland Rams...	Tackle	UCLA University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
15	137	Johnny Frieberger	End	Arkansas University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
16	146	Ernie Pannell Ernie Pannell Ernie Pannell was a player in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixteenth round of the 1941 NFL Draft and played three seasons with the team.-References:...	Tackle	Texas A&M Texas A&M University Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
17	157	Bob Saggau	Back	Notre Dame University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
18	166	Heige Pukema	Guard	Minnesota
19	177	Bob Hayes	End	Toledo University of Toledo The University of Toledo is a public university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The Carnegie Foundation classified the university as "Doctoral/Research Extensive."-National recognition:...
20	186	Jim Strasbaugh	Back	Ohio State Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
21	192	Joe Bailey	Center	Kentucky University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
22	196	Bruno Malinowski	Back	Holy Cross College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

• Green indicates a future Pro Football Hall of Fame
  Pro Football Hall of Fame
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...
  
   inductee

Schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
1	September 14, 1941	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	W 23-0
2	September 21, 1941	Cleveland Rams Cleveland Rams The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League...	W 24-7
3	September 28, 1941	Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	L 25-17
4	October 5, 1941	Chicago Cardinals	W 14-13
5	October 12, 1941	Brooklyn Dodgers Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field. In 1945, because of financial difficulties, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks...	W 30-7
6	October 19, 1941	at Cleveland Rams Cleveland Rams The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League...	W 17-14
7	October 26, 1941	at Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	W 24-7
8	November 2, 1941	at Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	W 16-14
9	November 16, 1941	Chicago Cardinals	W 17-9
10	November 23, 1941	at Pittsburgh Steelers Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...	W 54-7
11	November 30, 1941	at Washington Redskins Washington Redskins The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...	W 22-17

Playoffs

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
Championship	December 14, 1941	at Chicago Bears Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...	L 33-14

Standings

NFL Western Eastern and Western Divisions (NFL) 1933-69 The Eastern and Western Divisions of the National Football League, renamed the American and National Conferences in 1950 and then the Eastern and Western Conferences in 1953, were organized as a result of the disputed NFL championship of 1932...
	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA	STK
Chicago Bears 1941 Chicago Bears season The 1941 Chicago Bears season was their 22nd regular season and 6th postseason completed in the National Football League. The club posted a 10-1 record under head coach George Halas en route to their second straight NFL Championship and fifth overall league title.-Schedule:-Standings:-All-Star...	10	1	0	.909	396	147	W-5
Green Bay Packers	10	1	0	.909	258	120	W-8
Detroit Lions 1941 Detroit Lions season The 1941 Detroit Lions season was their 12th in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 5-5-1, winning only four games. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.-Schedule:-Standings:...	4	6	1	.400	121	195	W-1
Chicago Cardinals 1941 Chicago Cardinals season The 1941 Chicago Cardinals season was the 22nd season the team was in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 2-7-2, winning three games. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 16th consecutive season.-Schedule:-Standings:...	3	7	1	.300	127	197	L-2
Cleveland Rams 1941 Cleveland Rams season The 1941 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's fifth year with the National Football League and the sixth season in Cleveland.-Schedule:-Standings:-References:*...	2	9	0	.182	116	244	L-9

Roster

Green Bay Packers roster
Quarterbacks Running Backs Wide Receivers Tight Ends		Offensive Linemen Howard White "Smiley" Johnson (Guard) Defensive Linemen		Linebackers Howard White "Smiley" Johnson (Linebacker) Defensive Backs Special Teams Practice Squad Rookies in italics

Awards and records

• Don Hutson
  Don Hutson
  Donald Montgomery Hutson was the first star wide receiver in National Football League history. He is considered by many to have been the first modern receiver....
  
  , NFL Receiving Leader, 74 Receptions
• Cecil Isbell
  Cecil Isbell
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  , NFL Leader, Passing Yards (1,479)