The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-19
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL SEASON TO OPEN SEPT. Is
Pittsburgh
Faces Green
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= the National Football League lists
IL games for each of the nine
. teams in the circuit, including con-
tests at home and abroad, accord
ing to official announcement to-
day.
The season will be opened at
Philadelphia. Green Bay and Pitts
burgh on Sunday, September 10.
Night games in Pittsburgh and
Brooklyn will be played early in
the season in order to complete
all regularly scheduled games prior
to the closing, Sunday, Decem-
Der 6.
The playoff for the champion
ship between the teams winning
the Eastern and Western section
titles will be contested the follow
ing Sunday, December 13. This
years titular fray will be played
on the grounds of the team win
ming the Eastern crown.
Banner Season Seen
This season is expected to be
: the biggest since the National
Football League was organized in
1921. Professional football at
tendance records should be broken
for each of the nine clubs have
an improved team, studded with
sensational college recruits from
all sections of the country, Off
-cialS said.
Three of the teams De
troit Lions, New York Giants and
Chicago Bears-face some of
their toughest opposition before
1.-The official league season opens,
in games against college allstar
teams.
The Detroit Lions, 1885 cham
pions, meet the College AllStar
combination in Soldiers Field,
Chicago, September /. and the
New York Giants, Eastern di-
vision titleholderS, who lost to
the Lions in the playoff game,
meet the same group at the Polo
Grounds, New York, September 8.
Bears in Exhibition
In addition to the above two
games, there will be a contest be-
tween the Chicago Bears and an
other all-star college group at
Dallas, Tex, on Labor Day, Sep
TENDER /. as part Of the Texas
Centennial
Following is the complete Off
cial schedule for the coming sea-
son:
Sept. 1s-New York at Philadelphia.
Cardinals at Green Bay. Boston at
Sept. 5O-Boston at Philadelphia. Chi
eago Bears at Green Bay
Sept. % (NighD - Pittsburgh at
Sept. 27-New York at Pittsburgh,
Boston at Brooklyn, Chicago Cardinals
at Detroit, Bears at Philadelphia.
at Green Bay, Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
New York at Boston.
Oct. 11-Brooklyn at New York. Car
dinals at Bears, Detroit at Philadelphia
Boston at Green Bay.
Oct. Il Observation-Disclosures at Pitts
burgh, Detroit at Brooklyn.
Oct. 1S-Cardinals at New York, Phil"
adelphia at Boston. Pittsburgh at Bears
Detroit at Green Bay
Oct. 25-Philadelphia at New York.
Cardinals at Brooklyn, Pittsburgh at
Breen Bay. Detroit at Bears.
Nov, 1-Detroit at New York, Brook
lyn at Pittsburgh, Green Bay at Bears
Cardinals at Boston.
Nov. Screen Bay at Boston. Bears
at New York, Philadelphia at Cardinals,
Pittsburgh at Detroit.
Nov. 15-New York at Detroit, Bears
at Boston. Green Bay at Brooklyn Pitts
burgh at Cardinals.
Nov. 22-Green Bay at New York
Brooklyn at Boston, eDtroit at Cardi-
nails. Bears at Philadelphia.
Nov. rs (Thanksgiving)-New York at
Brooklyn, Bears at Detroit.
Nov. 2S-Green Bay at Detroit. Bears
at Cardinals, Brooklyn at Philadelphia
Pittsburgh at Boston.
Dec. 6-Brooklyn at Detroit, Green
Bay at Cardinals, Boston at New York.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia.