1941 Philadelphia Eagles season The 1941 Philadelphia Eagles season was their ninth in the league . The team improved on their previous output of 1 – 10 , winning two games . The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season . Off Season . Eagle make move back to larger Municipal Stadium from Shibe Park where they played in 1940 . In late 1940 , the football Pittsburgh Pirates owner Art Rooney bought half interest in the Eagles and sold the Pirates to Alexis Thompson . Before the start of the 1941 season Rooney and Thompson swap city and NFL rights for Philadelphia and Pittsburgh . The Pittsburgh Pirates players of 1940 and before are now Philadelphia Eagles and the Philadelphia Eagles players are now members of the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers . Coach Greasy Neal has the Eagles hold training camp in the High School Bowl , in Two Rivers , Wisconsin about 50 miles ( 80 km ) southeast of Green Bay , Wisconsin and 90 miles north of Milwaukee , WI on Lake Michigan . NFL Draft . The 1941 NFL Draft was held on December 10 , 1940 . The Eagles would get the 1st pick in the 22 rounds of the draft . Because these player were drafted before the Eagles and Steelers franchise swap of cities , these players ended up playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1941 . The Pittsburgh draft picks would come to Philadelphia . The Chicago Bears ( From Philadelphia Eagles ) had the number one pick in the draft . They choose Tom Harmon , the 1940 Heisman Trophy winner , a Halfback out of the University of Michigan Player Selections . The table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick . It is possible the Eagles ' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with . Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away . These picks were the players that the Pittsburgh Pirates made before the team swap between owners . Game Recaps . The Eagles played 11 games over a NFL season that was 14 weeks long . The season started Sunday , September 7 and ended Sunday , December 7 , 1941 . Week 1 Bye . The Eagles had the week off as the NFL only scheduled 1 game this week end , Pittsburgh at Cleveland Rams . Week 3 at Steelers . The Eagles travel across the state of Pennsylvania to play the re - named Pittsburgh Steelers for the first time since the franchises swapped cities . Week 5 Bye . The Eagles were not scheduled to play this weekend . Week 7 vs Redskins . The defending 1940 NFL Eastern Division Champions , Washington Redskins make a visit to Philadelphia to play the Eagles . Washington lost the 1940 NFL Championship Game to the Chicago Bears 73 – 0 . The Eagles will host the Bears in week 12 and travel to Washington , DC to re - play the Redskins in week 14 to close out the 1941 season . Week 10 vs Steelers . The Eagles ' across state rivals return to Philadelphia for a rematch of a game of game won by the Eagles played in week 3 . The Eagles enter the game with 2 wins and the Steelers are winless . Week 12 Bye . The Eagles were not scheduled to play this weekend . Week 14 at Redskins . At the Eagles – Washington Redskins game in Washington , DC military personnel and US Gov ' t officials were getting paged concerning the attack on Pearl Harbor , in the US territory of Hawaii . The attack started about time of kickoff for game . 1941 Roster . " ( All time List of Philadelphia Eagles players in franchise history ) " The 1941 Philadelphia Eagles roster is made up of 39 players which 32 are rookies . The average years in NFL is 1 / 2 a year .