Evening star., 1944-04-24
Land Six Home Dates,
Skip Battles With
Bears, Packers

Bears, Packers
They pulled out a plum, the Red
skin brain trusters did, from the
schedule pie at the National Foot
ball Leagues annual meeting al
Philadelphia. Some of the other
club officials may have lot of ex-
planning to the home town fans as
to how they got stuck with the
schedules they did, but not Messrs
George Marshall and Sid Carroll
president and general manager, re.
spectively, of the Redskins.
No National Football League
schedule can be called a soft touch
but the Redskins did as we'll as any
one and better than most up in
Philadelphia. The Chicago Bears
and Green Bay Packers perennially
are the hardest to get along with oil
the Western division clubs. Do you
see either on the Redskin list? Not
this year.
Redskins in Luck.
You may note, though, that all OF
the other Eastern division clubs
have drawn one sof these bad boys
The Redskins got the Cleveland
Rams, who didn't even play football
last season, and the new Chicago
Cardinals-Pittsburgh combine. And
both, incidentally, will be met on
the local greensward.
Last year there was a lot of
screaming from other cities when
the Redskins sandbagged their way
into six home games and four on
the road. What do they have for
this year? You guessed it, brother
six at home and four on. the road
just what went on behind the closed
doors up in Philadelphia wasn't an
nounced this time, but last year the
Redskins got that six-and- four
business on the plea that their ad-
vance season ticket sale already had
broken previous records for six
|games-at-home series. Well, they
again have been selling season
tickets for six home games and
again breaking records. Could be
that an argument that worked once
worked again, especially as the foot
ball boys must have been pretty
groRgy after six days of continual
sessions up in the City of Brotherly
Love.
Another Break for Tribe.
And the Skins did all right in an
other matter, too. That is the dates
for the New York games. The
Giants are Washington's "tradi-
tional rivals" and up until now the
last game of the annual home and
home series between the two always
has been in New York. They close
out the regular season here on De-
cember 10 this time, however, 50
everybody's happy. The New York
Washington game here happened to
come at the end of the season last
year, too. However, it wasn't ar
ranged that way on the schedule,
but was forced upon them by con-
hict OF dates with the baseball team
at Griffith Stadium.
In addition to those single games
with the Card-Pitts and Cleveland,
the Redskins of course will meet
all the other Eastern clubs-Phila-
delphia, Brooklyn, New York and
Boston, in home-and home games,
opening here on October % with
the Brooklyns. Marshall didn't
make the same mistake he made
last year when he carded the OPEN
ing game here before the baseball
season ended, hoping that he could
get Griff to shift the last baseball
tilt. Griff wouldn't. So this years
opener is two weeks later than
usual so it not only will not inter-
fere with the last game of the Mats
but won't even be in the way if a
World Series happens to come this
way.
The schedule:
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October Detroit at Green Bay.
october S-New York at Boston, Brook $
lyn at Detroit Chicago Bears at Cleve-
lang; Card-Pitt at Green Bay, Washington
October 15---Washington at Boston, New
York at Brooklyn. Card-Pitt at Chicago
bears, Cleveland at Detroit
october 22-Boston at Philadelphia,
Brooklyn at WASHINGTON, Detroit at Chi.
cago Bears, Card-Pitt at New York, Cleve
land at Green Bay.
October 29-Boston at Brooklyn. cleye-
land at Chicago Bears, Card-Pitt at wash
lnston, Green Bay at Detroit, Philadelphia
November 5-Green Bay at Chicago
Bears, Boston at New York. Philadelphia
at BROOKLYN. Detroit vs. Card-Pitt at Pitts
burgh, Cleveland at Washington
November 12-Boston at Chicago Bears.
IWashington at Brooklyn, Card-Pittsburgh
at Detroit, Green Bay at Cleveland, New
York at Philadelphia
| November 19-Brooklyn at Boston, Chi
cago Bears at Detroit, Cleveland VS. Card
Pitt at Chicago, Green Bay at New York,
IPhiladelphia at Washing ton.
November 26-Boston at Washington,
BROOKLYN at New York. Chicago Bears at
IPhladelphia, Green Bay vs. Card Pitt sat
Chicago, Detroit at Cleveland
December Boston at Detroit, Brooklyn
at Philadelphia, Chicago Bears VS. Card
Pitt at Pittsburgh. WASHINGTON at New
| December 10-Cleveland at Philadelphia,
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