The team played one of its final two "home" games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise tallied its only win under the Texans moniker — over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, in front of an estimated crowd of only 2,500 fans on Thanksgiving Day. (It was the worst-attended NFL game since 1939, and no NFL crowd would be smaller until the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited attendance at sporting events in 2020.) As a measure of how low the NFL still ranked on the sports scene in the 1950s, the Akron high school championship game played at the Rubber Bowl that morning far outdrew the professional contest, attracting 14,284 fans. Head coach Jim Phelan jokingly suggested because of the small turnout, they should "go into the stands and shake hands with each fan." Halas had been so certain that the Bears would overpower the lowly Texans that he started only his second-stringers, but the Texans jumped out to a 20–2 lead and hung on for a shocking 27–23 win. With the victory, the NFL avoided having a franchise with a winless regular season, something that had not happened since . The team's final game was a 41–6 flogging at the hands of the Detroit Lions; that game was supposed to be played in Dallas, but was moved to Detroit after the league took over the team—forcing the Texans to make their second trip of the year to Briggs Stadium. Two weeks later, the Lions won the NFL's 1952 championship.