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On Sunday, November 3rd, 1968, the Chicago Bears faced the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field for week 8 of the 1968 NFL season.
Chicago was coached by Jim Dooley in his first year as head coach.
Owner and general manager George Hallis had coached the Bears for most of the previous 48 seasons, dating back to the founding of the team and the NFL itself in 1920.
Green Bay entered the 1968 season as back-to-back NFL champions, having won the first two Super Bowls under coach Vince Lombardi.
Shortly after the victory in Super Bowl II, Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Packers and continued as general manager.
He handed the head coaching position to Phil Bengston, a longtime assistant.
This audio recording features announcers Jack Brickhouse, Irv Kupcinet, and Frank Babcock.
This could be some afternoon.
All right, they have Carrollville, a foot away on the left, they have Boyd-Dowdard, a foot away to the right.
They have a very wide loose backfield to Green Bay Packers, far-struck quarterbacking.
You have Simpson, Donnie Anderson on the backfield. A handoff to Anderson, sweeps around the left side, runs around John Dawson.
However, he forced him to go pretty wide and deep in order to avoid his lines, and consequently, he lost a couple of yards trying to make the turn because suddenly Lloyd Phillips of the Bears was there to down him.
So the first running play by the Green Bay Packers in this ballgame involves a two-yard loss.
That's going to be now second down, 12 yards to go for the Green Bay Packers who huddle back on their five-yard line.
On the defense for the Bears, they break the huddle.
We see the up front men are Lloyd Phillips and Edelbradovich, right and left, and respectively.
The interior men are John Johnson and Keevey.
Middle linebackers, usual buckets, with Fernel on the right, up in the line is Frimish, and Doug LaFontaine on the left, up in the line.
That gives the Bears a six-man rush.
The handoff to Anderson tries the other side this time.
He's in the middle of the hole, into the secondary, and down at the 28-yard line.
Very good run.
Made himself ten yards on that run before Bunker and Patabone combined to make the tackle.
That's going to make it now third down, about two yards to go for a first down.
It's the right side of the Packer offense.
This is very, very good blocking.
Very intermatched.
That was like Jerry Kramer and Morris Gregg, a couple of veterans.
Kramer had 11 years of that, and Morris Gregg a 12-year man.
And Mark Plumming, the tie-down offense, had to turn the linebacker a little bit on that one.
And as a result, Don Anderson was able to cut inside the linebacker and the defensive left end
and make himself ten yards.
That's going to make it third down and two.
Third down, two.
Mark Starr, probing, as he always does during the first part of the ballgame.
Handoff to Elijah Pitz.
Same play, and this time the Bears are ready.
He's upended by Benny McCrae.
The Pink Dogs on the play, with John Johnson also helping.
They lost perhaps a yard.
Maybe, yes, we'll give them about a one or maybe a two-yard loss.
Football down now on the 17-yard line, and now it becomes fourth down,
three yards to go for the first down.
That means that Green Bay will probably punt the football.
Zick Gordon is going to be deep, along with Gale Sayers,
anticipating the punt from Don Anderson.
Remember last year at Beard Cup when this guy fooled everybody and ran about 30 yards.
He won on a fake punt, just like Gary Lyles did last week against the Minnesota Vikings.
And that turned out to be a turning point in that game.
Here's a high pass to center.
Here's the boot.
He gets it away.
Nobody touches him.
And a fair catch called for by Sayers, who juggled the ball momentarily.
And it is down there now, empty 23-yard line.
Still the Bears, defense hold, the first and 10 for the Chicago Bears.
A 50-yard boot net drop, shriveled by the Packers on that one.
And still the Bears take over first and 10 in the offense.
Bears in their white traveling uniforms with the orange and blue number Oaks, dark blue.
And when they break that level, it's usually Virgil Carter has lined up where?
Virgil Carter, the quarterback.
Denny, a tight left hand.
What a way right end of court.
Out here on the left is one.
A deduced backfielder, Bullis, there's a hand off to Gale.
Gets a block from George.
He feels a knock, either down.
He's reached the left side and gets across to 25 to about the 27-yard line.
Nischke making the tackle.
Nischke and Brown, I'm going to be the south.
Brown coming up from the secondary also to help out on that one.
Brown is number 40 on that ball, club.
And so now, with second down, the Chicago Bears on that particular play made themselves a few yards.
However, it looks like a walk off.
The Shane Yang has not moved.
The brown indicator remains the same.
And here's a walk off against the Bears.
Oh, boy.
Very first play for the Chicago Bears.
Put the ball all the way back down the 13-yard line.
And Pat Haggerty indicates a personal foul, a clipping foul by the Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Bears are going to make it now, second down.
And 21 yards to go for a first down for the Bears.
No score. We're in the first quarter here at Green Bay.
Beautiful day. Just ideal.
All right.
Hike pile over that ball.
Virgil Carter hikes his number to right on this one.
And Gale Thirth goes into a double spot to the right along with Cecil Turner.
Long count.
Here's a hike towards the tackle now by 20-yard.
A couple minutes to deal.
In the same body on this long count, it would have been an audible.
Moves across the line of coming before the ball was passed off.
One leader's going to walk up against the Bears.
Five yards with put the ball inside the 10.
Now all the way back to the seven-yard line.
The ball is just there.
They know it's across the seven-yard line.
And there's the most penalized team in football.
Martina Rye with clipping at offside.
And the Bears and school are the reds there.
In the face of one play.
First and 22.
All right. Alan Hunley come now.
That makes it now first and 26 yards to go for the first down.
In the loose backfield.
Sayers and Ronnie Ball in the loose backfield for the Bears.
Foul.
Depth of all.
A handoff now to Ronnie Ball.
And he drives the middle.
He gets himself a few yards.
They're trying to get out where they can breathe.
He pulls his way up to about the 11-yard line.
Bottom down on the tackle.
Nitski as usual.
For the Green Bay Packers, the up front men are Willie Davis, Ron Kisalik, Hank Jordan,
and Lionel Aldridge, some pretty familiar up front men.
The middle linebackers, Nitski Blank on the right by Leo R. Kafein,
on the left by Dave Robinson.
And these are among the absolute batter.
They're not only in the game today but also in their era.
Natalie, Tommy Brown, Willie Wood, Bob Deeter are the defensive backs for this ball club.
And they all know what they're doing down there pretty well too.
Her badly is coming out as one of the defensive backs.
Once again, a Bear alignment comes across the line a little too.
And this time it was Wachowska.
And Nitski and George Seale get into it a little bit.
A few hard words are being exchanged.
And here's another walk off against the Bears.
Five yards this time, putting the ball back on the six yard line.
Oh, brother.
Come down to your play, Owen.
Well, Jack, I can only explain it by saying the Bears are so eager today to get out there
and really hit those Green Bay Packers.
As I said earlier, they're highly in and way up there, very emotional,
very determined to make a good performance of their game here today.
That they are committing these fouls, it's coming, a team is so emotionally so high.
Here we go, Jack.
Ducking in 27 for the Bears.
The ball is on the Bear six yard line.
A hand off the third, good turn off of the right, Seale blocked for him, Seale blocked for him.
Go to Randy Jackson.
He's up to the 50, he's up to the 20.
He's up to the 25.
He's almost spun away from the last tackleer, but he was down at the 28 yard line.
Willie Davis finally managed to get a hand on him, and hold him just long enough for Tom Brown
to come up and help make the tackle.
And a dunk for a minute here was going to spin away from both of them.
Well, that gets them out there where they can breathe now.
Putting the ball up on the 29 yard line.
Final stop.
23 yards he's spinning them now, and that makes it down to the third down for the Bears.
And just about four yards to go for a first down, and believe me, that was quite an important run by Mr. Gale Diz.
Wouldn't it be something if they got their first down instead of downs after all, huh?
With all that maneuvering around down there.
Okay, they're all lined up, it certainly could happen.
Third down, let's see if Tom comes up with a pass or whether he continues to run the ball.
Broke out, here's the snap, here's a hand up the stairs, and he ties the middle.
No good.
30 yards, down at the 30 yard line.
Now, selling cards in there.
The blockers haven't been so loud all weekend.
Would be blockers, and broke up the play.
So now with fourth down, it's going to be fourth down, three yards to go for the first down for the Bears.
The ball's clearly on the 30 yard line.
That means now that we get a look at our new runner, Mr. John Kilgore, who has replaced Bobby Joe Green.
He was apparently out for the season.
So John Kilgore, wearing number 80, keep that in mind.
Next week at the Wrigley Field, we'll watch the Bears get down at the go.
New kick from just about the 19 yard line.
Twin safety at the 30 for Green Bay.
The wind not too much of a factor at this moment.
Here's the booth by Kilgore, it's a good one, a high, fairly deep punt going out of the 26 yard line.
And giving ground on this one now is Willie Wood.
And as he starts to circle, he gets across to 25, and as far as the 27 before being knocked down by Rudy Kuchenberg.
And that takes care of that.
Willie Wood returning at just about two yards net, a 44 yard booth, two yard return.
44 yards from the line of scrimmage.
Green Bay's ball.
So Green Bay and the Chicago Bears were just about even in the exchange of pucks.
Because the ball is placed down now at the 28 yard line of the Green Bay Packers.
Smart style of the quarterback, clever, sharp, smart, experienced, crafty, cool.
And here's the first pass of the ball game.
And he hits the standout.
And now, some behind by Richie Pettibone at the Bear 44 yard line.
For the first time, one ball for our ball, three balls in the other ball club territory now.
Packers ball, first and second to go.
And on that play, that passing play from the 27 yard line to the 46 yard line of the Bears.
27 yards altogether.
The first and 10 now for Green Bay.
Put away to the left, Carol Dale.
Out here to the right is Lloyd Donald.
The news track view for the Packers now involves Anderson and Elijah Pitts, who seems to have their job won.
Grabowski's ailing a little bit.
Here's a handoff to Elijah.
Leaps off the right side, and as he starts to cut in, he just does get across to 45 yard line for the 44.
Rosie Taylor coming up to the secondary, and Lloyd Phillips moving out to get a pursuit angle tackle on him.
Putting the ball up to 44 yard line, which now means it is going to be about eight minutes and 14 seconds to go in the first quarter.
Green Bay's ball, second down, eight yards to go for a first down.
In the second period, the St. Louis Cardinals 14, the Philadelphia Eagles 7.
In the first period, Pittsburgh 14, the Atlanta Falcons nothing.
First we'll wrap them all with scores.
Ball in the 44 yard line.
Way out there to the left is Carol Dale. Set up for this ball club is Kenny Balman, a real bet.
Here's the snap, a handoff now to Anderson.
Over left guard he goes, and there's the flag gone on this play, and it looks like the penalty might be against the Bears offside.
Headlinesman coming from over on the far side, as Gary Burtman indicating, as I thought, that the penalty was on the Bears,
and here's the walk off against them, putting the ball now on the Bears, 39 yard line.
Offside against the Chicago Bears, and the Packers of course are only too happy to accept that penalty.
That makes it now second down, four yards to go for a first down for Green Bay.
No score in this first quarter, but believe me, the Packers, anytime they get inside your 40 yard line, are now in what might be termed scoring position.
And today's the best of the football, that can be true of most any ball club, the way they can kick those field goals.
Out of the huddle come the Packers again, Bale goes way out there to the left, and he's picked up by Joe Taylor.
On this side, Roy Downer, one of the great pass catchers in the Clutch, is picked up by Benny McCray.
The deuce backfield involved, Pitts now, Donnie Anderson, really long count, could be an audible.
Here's the handoff now, and it goes to the running halfback on the right side.
Don Anderson who tried the middle of the line, and the Bears were pretty ready for him on that play.
John Johnson pinching it open, also bucked this line back, Gino Bradovich, they all got involved in that.
But the ball was moved through the 40 yard line, making it now third down, and still, four yards to go for a first down.
Seven minutes and 25 seconds to go in the first quarter of Green Bay, no score in this football game.
It's a real head-bomber, and so far the defense has taken over.
The most impressive yardage has been by penalty, except for the one pass, the 27 yard pass by Bart Starr to Don Anderson.
Don Anderson of course, a good running back, round up the middle of this one.
Third down.
And here's the trap play, the halfback, Elijah Pitts moving the ball, almost a first down yardage.
It's going to be close, but I don't think he made it.
A trap play, a good fake.
On the draw.
Old draw.
And now they're going to have to measure at just about the Chicago Bear 37 yard line.
It's going to be fourth down, a little over a yard to go for a first down, coming in now are Mike Riley and Major Hazelton,
replacing Dick Kutkus, who we hope is in full strength again today.
Certainly he's well enough to play, and Joe Taylor going out.
Now with fourth down, the ball fairly well into Bear territory, the ball at the Bear 37 yard line.
Coming in is Errol Mann from the University of North Dakota, 27 year old 200 pounder who's going to attempt a field goal from the 44 yard line.
It is no good, never had a chance into the end zone.
And so the Bears take over first and 10.
Chicago Bears now have themselves another opportunity to get a march underway.
Time out on the field, we'll return before action in just one minute.
Bears ball, first and 10 on Errol.
Bears ball, first and 10 on their own 20 yard line.
No score in this football game, 6.08 to go in the first quarter.
Virgil Kahn of the quarterback marks it out, here's the snap, the hand up to Bears, over the middle he goes.
Got a pretty good hold there, he had to slow up a little bit for Wataska, again from hitting him.
And he's darted to his right and still moves for more important yardage forward across the 30 yard line.
He's going to be down to the 31, that's the first down for the Bears.
Woody Davis made the tackle on him and Wataska, of course, after making his initial press, had to straighten up a little bit.
He was looking for somebody else to try to block and in the meantime, Bears had to kind of run around him.
Bob was also involved, however, in making the initial hole, he was able to make his yardage anyway.
So it's first and 10 now for Bears, the ball is on the 31 yard line.
Bears 31 yard line, here's the hand off to Ronnie Bull, head down and man, he really plows in there hard.
He follows his way across that 35 to the 36 or 7. Randy Jackson helping with the blocking that time.
Randy Jackson and George Seals, a bottom-out on the tackle, number 74.
Boy, a lot of people have seen that number for years.
Mr. Henry Jordan up here, he's been around a little while.
This is his 12th year in this league, 6'3", 250 pounder.
Saw Hong Hanon on the plane last night, he's been counting for somebody.
And of course, he's on the coaching staff here.
And Old Dave was another one of those.
Along with George, you think of him and Willie Davis all in the same breath with this ball club up here.
4.57 to go in the first quarter, bottom of the 36 yard line, second down, 5 for the Bears.
Here's the staff, Prouder handing off to Sayers.
And he cuts inside Cadil, who makes the block.
And Gale on a real fancy cutback, moves the ball almost to first down, just about to the 40 yard line, maybe the 41.
That was a pretty cute cutback, huh?
That was a devised play by Gale on the field, improvised we should say, because he's only throwing a bigger opening than the one the Bears is supposed to make for more tackle.
Incidentally, Jack, the Bears' strategy, game plan is pretty well established right now.
They're going to sock it to them on the ground.
They're going to run as much as possible and throw as little as possible.
And when necessary, of course, they will go through the air.
But basically, the game plan is to move that ball against the Packers on the ground, and they feel they can do it.
And today, they have been moving the ball very well.
Gale Sayers is on the verge of starting out for one of his better days.
We're up to about 50 yards already in the first quarter of his ball game.
So Jack, this is going to be an interesting development that the Bears can keep going on the ground.
This is a game plan that's going to lead to a good deal of success.
Gale has averaged slightly over 6 yards per carry again this year.
Right now, if they can get about 2 1⁄2 inches, they've got a first set of hours.
This third down, a couple of free inches to go for a first down looks like the ball at the 41-yard line, no score, 419 to go in the first quarter.
And here's the quarterback sneak by Carter as expected.
And he's got his first down easily.
There was a flag down on the play.
Let's see what this one's all about.
The ball has been advanced to the 43-yard line, but wipe it out.
It's a walk-off against the Bears.
Ooh, brother.
Putting the ball back now just across the 35.
We'll call it the 36-yard line.
Now, Dick Gordon coming in on the sideline for the Bears.
Cecil Turner is in there now for the Chicago Bears.
Carter, still quarterback in the ball.
Gale Boston, Denny out, and Bob Wallace comes in.
5'3", 211 pounder from Texas at El Paso, a fellow who has got the makings of one of the better pass catchers in this league.
Caught a real hot touchdown pass last week when they needed to promote it.
So now Wallace is actually lining up a couple of steps away from the right tackle for the win of the leftist, Cecil Turner.
It's third down, 6 yards to go.
There's a pass now by Carter.
He lost the ball, batted down by Herb Adderley, jumped right over Wallace's shoulder,
took a hand in front of his chest, and deflected the ball towards the ground at the 45-yard line.
And there was a big loss in the crowd because there was a very, very, that was a close call because that could have been interference.
Yes.
If anything, Carter held the ball just a little bit too long, Jack, and gave the defense a chance to get a hand on it.
He felt getting rid of the ball by a split second sooner I think it would have been a completion of the first down.
It was a little bit unusual too because one of his talents is the fact that he releases quickly.
And this, of course, is the mark of a good quarterback.
Fourth down, the Bears going to have to punt.
Kilgore back, he'll kick from about the 24.
Gets it away, ooh, it's a wobbly boot, no bargain at all.
Comes down and back or land at the 30, bounces forward, takes a bear bounce inside the 20.
They caught a break on this one.
The ball is going to be down at the 17-yard line.
Big break for the Bears on that one.
No bargain. 48 yards net, however, from Scrummage.
And so Green Bay has been pushed back into their own country.
It looks like we're going to wind up with the real head-pumping in the lie.
3.50 to go in the first quarter.
Timeout.
Players about to resume Packers ball, first and 10 to go, back in their own 17-yard line.
Barstar hands off to Elijah Fitz.
He tries right guard.
He is stripped up, knocked off balance by Edelbradovich and forced to the ground by Dick Butkus before the play is over.
Made his couple of three yards.
Put the ball down now at just about the 20-yard line, making a second down.
Seven yards to go for the first down for the Green Bay Packers.
The clock ticking away with these running plays.
3.33 to go in the first quarter.
We've only had a couple of passes in this overball game.
Barstar completed one for 27 to Anderson, and the Chicago Bears' attempt was deflected as an incomplete pass by Herb Adderley.
It's going to be second down now, 3.25 to go in the first quarter.
No score here at Green Bay.
The phone, and for now, both up on the line, the linebackers as the running play unfolds.
And it is a slam play to the left by Elijah Fitz, taking the handoff as usual from Barstar.
And it was Dick Eby who broke up the play.
Let's take five seconds for the break.
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They're third down now, 3.00 yards to go for a first down for the Pack.
They're on the 25-yard, 24-yard line up, Green Bay.
Bowman over that ball, Barstar under him.
Again, the six-man rush for the Bears, almost 7-as-butt, just wants to go right up on that line.
Here's the handoff on the delay to Donnie Anderson.
No gain to amount to anything on this one.
He got to the line, and again it was Butch, his right, no good play, along with Eby who broke up the would-be blocking.
A good blocking attempt by Gil Gillingham was really sent aroud that play by Eby.
Consequently, he is shy of first down yardage, it looks like.
He fell across the line as close as he was hit.
Possibly his momentum as he stretched for the ball might have carried him to the first down.
It's got to be very, very close.
And he misses it by about a foot and a half.
That makes it now fourth down, little less than a yard to go, about half a yard to go for a first down for the Green Bay Packers.
And if you were the Pack, what would you do in this particular spot?
No score, 2.27 to go.
And of course the ball is fairly beating Packer territory, so that means they're going to punch.
Donnie Anderson, a left-footed cooter, is going to kick.
He'll get the kick away from about the 17-yard line.
Perfect pass from Santa.
There's the kick. High, carries well.
Fair catch indicated by Dick Gordon.
However, the ball started to wobble a little and so Dick decided to just move away and let her hit the ground and do what she wants to do.
It was too risky to try to catch this ball.
The ball is on the 31-yard line, 41 yards, and that's okay.
So the Bears gained a little as they exchanged the putters in the first quarter.
And just about 2.04 to go in the first quarter at Green Bay Bears ball.
One of the advantages of Mr. Anderson is that his putts carry so high.
They carry about as high as any putter in the league.
You have to go up in those lines that have time to get down under that putt.
They have plenty of time to get down there under those boots.
All right, Bears ball, first and 10 to go, and they're all 31-yard line.
No score in this first quarter.
And here's Gale Sayers on the handoff.
Over the middle he goes.
He's got a better inside as well as outside runners because he has power in those legs.
He advances the ball up a 34-yard line.
Bottom man on the tackle, Ray Nitschke, one of the toughest of the tough.
Give him three, make it second down seven.
Bears ball, second period, Pittsburgh 21, Atlanta nothing.
The seat is coming to life.
Second period, St. Louis 14, the Philadelphia Eagles 10.
In the first period, Baltimore 3, the New York Giants nothing.
As Baltimore returns to play the Giants up there at New York after that championship game
was several years ago indicated by many as one of the greatest football games ever played.
Here's a handoff to Sayers again.
Carter really employs Gale Sayers as Gale now advances the ball up a 39-yard line.
You know, he's giving Sayers quite a workout here, Cup, but he's running plays.
And I remember Carter being quoted last week as saying possibly one of his mistakes last week
was employing Gale too much after a real long run.
He then came back with him and ran him on the next play and he kind of wished he hadn't done that.
Here's another walk-off.
Well, here we go again, a walk-off against the Bears with about a minute to go in the first quarter.
Let's see what it is this time. It's illegal procedure.
Somebody on the stronger Bear line might hold a little bit too soon.
There's probably somebody in the backfield.
Probably somebody in the backfield. We did not see the infraction.
It is going to be second down, 12 yards to go for the first down, second down, 12 yards.
There's never a slot to the right.
Dick Gordon's put away to the right. So the Bears are putting the right zone this time.
If there's going to be a pass, it probably will be down to the right side.
Here's the snap, there's the Carter, and here's a handoff to Sayers, and Gale comes to a standing stop.
Down at the 33-yard line, and George Dehove came in there high with an arm flying.
And Ray Nitschke has just moved into him again once more, and I believe he has warned him.
George, you don't do that anymore. That's enough of that.
Anyway, the play holds up.
And with just seconds to go in the very, very first quarter, no score.
The ball is now on the 33-yard line where it becomes the Bears' ball, third at eight.
They got back to penalty yard. They had a couple to go.
And this first quarter's moving along pretty well because, of course, you have running plays.
They eat up the block a lot more than passing plays.
And now here's Turner, started off to the right suddenly, realizes he's gotten it wrong, and goes to the slot to the left.
Carter waits for him and gets set. Here's Carter rolling around to the right.
He may keep it. He gets a block from Field, that's a deal, and he dribs, trying to cut away from Willie Davis.
It looked like he flipped and lost his balance and was down at the 37-yard line.
Dye a first down yard by two or three yards, and there's the quarter.
The first quarter is over, and there's no score.
The gun ending the first quarter, the Bears, nothing, and the Green Bay Packers, nothing.
We're back on the air here. The score in the East is Baltimore 10, New York nothing in the second period.
Here is the Green Bay. It's nothing, nothing. The Chicago Bears.
And that's about as even a first quarter, Jack, as I guess you could find anywhere.
Nobody had any advantage. Nobody could penetrate that third down for a continuing thrust.
Here we go, Jack.
Willie Wooden-Brown of the deep end for the Packers as Kilgore gets his putt away from the Bears, 28.
It's a low putt, but it carries fairly well.
Taking up a 20-yard line by Wood, backs up to the 17.
Now he reverses and starts up field in the semicircle.
He's knocked down by Joe Taylor and finally out of bounds by Keurig and by Ebe.
Advancing the ball then to the 26-yard line.
A 44-yard boot, 5-yard return, net 39 to the Bears from their lineup scrimmage,
and that puts the ball now in the Packer possession.
The first one's had to go for Green Bay on their own 25-yard line.
It's got him out by Ruffalo Heggety. No score.
All right. Last year up here, the Green Bay-Chicago Bear game was a 13-10 final with Denver
kicking a field goal from way out there in the closing seconds of the game.
Not too much unlike the one that Mack Percival came up with last week.
Here's the snap, a handoff now to Anderson.
He finds himself what appeared to be a hole on the slant off the right side.
However, suddenly a big arm appeared and grabbed him around the waist,
that arm owned by Buccus and by Lloyd-Sullis,
and he was slowed up and suddenly coming up also to help out with Ebe.
And over out of it, Dan, as a result, a short gain on the play when it started out
looked like a good enough to make a good game.
Football on 27.
Put the ball then at the 27-yard line.
Second down, 8 yards to go for the first down.
Down the second quarter now, no score.
Up on the forward wall for the Bears, the usual force of Philip, John Johnson, Ebe,
Obradovich, the snap, the trap play, pull back trap.
And it's difficult since there's a lot of daylight here.
He's off to 30 and up to the 35-yard line.
You don't see him coming up to the secondary.
Well, now something reversing again.
He's come behind on the angle.
Managed to knock him down, but not before he got across to 35
and he's 36-yard line.
And the Bears, he's going to have to pull a little bit on that one.
9 yards on that play and it looked like he was going to make a good deal more than 9
before it was all over.
It'll be a first down then for Green Bay.
First and 10 to go in their own 36-yard line.
The Bears secondary still involved Richie Pettibone, the pre-safety, is Rosy Taylor.
Motorback center Joe Taylor, Benny McCray, and they're up on the line of scrimmage right now.
They'll be bumping a little bit with those ends that are spread out.
Here's Charles, the receiver, and he's down.
He's got football and he's down for a big loss.
Kyle Branovich and Boyd Finister-Kane converging from their end position.
And Bartzda, the large, heavy quarterback that he is, runs it in throw,
desperately, but later somebody was covered, ate the ball, took the big loss,
putting the ball back on the 23-yard line, and that was a good loss too.
A 5, 10, 12 or 13-yard loss on the play, minus 13 that makes it now.
Second down, 23 yards to go for a first down for the Green Bay Packers,
huddling now between the 10- and 15-yard line in their orange-yellow type pants,
same color helmet, their dark green jerseys, white numerals.
12th team has come in for Green Bay, and it's going off to the right.
Mark Fleming is the tight right end.
He's there now too.
And here's a pass and it's caught by Elijah Pitz, who was down and bumped out of bounds
by Benny McCray from the secondary of the 27, 28-yard line.
Elijah Pitz taking the pass.
There was a blank out.
And it looks like this one finally is going to be against Green Bay Cup
because the Bears have the option, judging from the way the discussion is going,
Dick Butt just talking it over with referee Haggerty.
Several penalties were charged against the Bears in the first quarter.
Now here in the second quarter, the first real penalty it looks like is against the Green Bay Packers, the Bears,
are going to turn down a holding penalty.
It would have been a 15-yard penalty, but the Bears actually caused the Packers to use up and down,
and having gotten such a huge loss at Mark Dard's expense on the previous play,
since it's now third down and 16 yards to go for a first down,
they're better off to leave it that way rather than let the Packers get that down back even though they gained 15 yards.
No score.
Twelve minutes, 38 seconds to go in the second quarter.
Out of the tunnel they come.
Carroll Dale flying to the right.
James is way out there to the right.
Picked up a one-on-one by Major Hazelton who's in the ball game now.
Richie Predebon keeping a real weather eye on that slot man.
The snap, back-gold star.
Looks like he wants a pass.
He waits, he throws, and he hits it.
Forty and he's down at the 45-yard line.
Knockdown by Dick Buckett.
And again, Mr. Barstar threading the needle.
They got their first down.
17 yards on that play, moving the ball up at the 45-yard line.
They did not get their first down.
They're in action.
They are fourth and one.
They almost got their first down.
Now with fourth down and one, the ball at the 45-yard line.
Up the Packers.
Anderson will probably punt.
No score.
11.55 to go in the first half.
Kickers away at the 35.
That's a really good pass.
That's Naco into the end zone.
It does go into the end zone.
And Gale Sayers and Gary Meyer are delighted to let it go in there.
55 yards, blue to plus, reduced by 20 yards.
It'll be a touchback and be brought out to the 20-yard line.
Timeout on the playing field.
11.43 to go in the first half.
Timeout on the playing field.
Really time before action in just one minute.
There's the ball.
First and 10 to go on their 20.
We have a scoreless game.
The battle of the defenders.
Here's Carter throwing a pass.
It was in and out of Cecil Turner's fingers at the 30-yard line.
And the only bad thing about one of those is that it's not caught.
Well, when the ball is, you've got to kind of up in the air like that.
And all those green jerseys are going for it.
It kind of gives you a little heart failure.
You see that ball hit the ground with fellows like Adderley and Brown and Jeter out there anyway.
And you'd expect really to hold on to that ball.
You know, that was pretty well grown.
And he had a nice open field there for a substantial gain.
So he just had a finger on the thing.
Not enough really to hold possession.
Here we go, Jack.
Second down, 10.
Bears bombing their own 20-yard line.
No score in the second quarter at Green Bay.
Three of us will receive it to the right.
Carter sweeps it out to the left there.
Almost a naked reverse this time.
A naked keeper.
And he is hit hard coming up with Nitschke.
He was in a kind of a semicircle.
Almost a figure eight before it was over.
But he finally zeroed in on the ball, Gary, when he finally realized that Carter was carrying the ball himself.
He hit him a jarring sack.
But you can hear up here, wide in the open.
Whoo, boy.
Well, one thing about Mr. Carter, as somebody says, you can't ball his turkeys.
This kid can take those hard bumps and still keep coming.
Ball in the 25-yard line.
Third down, five.
He gets many more hits in the head like that.
We'll make a sports announcement out of him now.
Third down, five.
Ten-fifty-eight to go in the second quarter.
Out of the huddle they go.
Split away to the left is Gordon.
In the spot to the left is Gale Sayers.
The only man in this eighth backfield then is Ronnie Bull.
He is almost directly behind the quarterback.
And here's the whistle.
They've taken too much time.
They've got the play underway.
Thirty seconds is all they're allowed.
And they are going to be the victims of a five-yard walk-off.
Putting the ball back now to the 20-yard line.
That means now it's going to be third down and ten.
Third down, ten for the Chicago Bears.
They huddle back on the ten-yard line.
Bob Witaska has started today on the offense.
He's still in there for the Bears.
Ball on the play.
Good to see him back in action.
Mike Raybould is in the hotel.
Yeah, I'm here to see the game with his beautiful wife Kathy from Bloomington, Indiana today.
Sat around with Ed and Virginia McCaskill, the Bear family, and put some yards last night.
It was a lot of fun.
Matt back goes the ball.
Carter, look, he waves.
He throws up the middle and he hits Wallace.
Twenty-five-yard line down almost immediately.
He was surrounded quickly by Adderley, by Nischke, was backed up and by Willie Wood coming up from the secondary.
But he still made himself a good pass, good for 15 yards.
And that gives the Bears a first out.
First and ten for the Bears as Virgil Carter finds the range.
It's Wallace, by Wallace.
As Cupp told you, the game plan plan for the Bears apparently appears to be he's just balling the ground and a little rock them and sock them.
Here's the snap.
Back goes Carter once more.
Here's a pass up the middle.
And again he hits his man, this time it's Turner who falls down making the catch.
But he did make the catch at the 47-yard line.
Completed pass.
He's made the pass almost to the same spot, right up the middle, just over the line by Virgil Carter, once to Wallace, once to Turner, good for 12 yards that last time.
That's going to make it first and ten as the Bears have reeled off two consecutive passing first outs.
The first quarter was singularly free of passing by both of us.
But now here in the second they've begun to try to gamble a little bit to try to find that race.
Nine and a half minutes to go in the second quarter.
No score.
Carter handing off the Bears to Neil Block.
And Gale just as he talked the cutback and turned in trying to duck Nipki who had charged on the red dot, fell down, face down on the ground, fell right on the ball.
Nothing he could do about that one.
And the Bears have simply lost themselves some yardage, which is going to happen once in a while, putting the ball back on the 46-yard line.
They lost the yard, making it now second down and 11.
Second down and 11.
Austin Denny is starting off the field.
Wallace has come in.
Carter kneeling in the huddle back on the 35-yard line.
They break the huddle.
Mike Pyle over the ball, points to the left by Seals on the right by Caddiel.
The right tackle with Tosca.
The left tackle is Randy Jackson.
Back goes Carter once more.
He looks, he throws, and he hits his man just over the line.
It's Ronnie Ball at midfield and Ronnie falls forward.
They're looking to play for an extra yardage.
It's a hit by Herb Adderley.
And they've got a little yardage on that one.
That's going to make it now third down for the Bears, roughly six yards to go.
Give them a net on that one of five yards.
They were at 11 to go.
Ryan Piccolo is coming in.
And Gale Sayers, who had the 40 ripped off the back of his, the four ripped off the 40 on the back of his jersey,
is going to have to change jerseys again.
They spent a lot of time in this league ripping jerseys off Gale Sayers.
Sometimes you feel pretty lucky if you can get that much of him.
Ryan Piccolo then in the eighth backfield with Ronnie Bull on the stop to the left.
Wallace went away. Turner and Dick Gordon here to the right.
And here he is. Carter rolling around.
He makes the pass. Now he waits.
He reverses himself just away from the faculty department field.
And he's slammed hard to down by Robinson, moving in drive to 45.
It's a 44-yard line.
And Big Dave Robinson, the huge linebacker for Green Bay, 6'3", 240, a six-year bet.
One of the most actual of all linebackers in the league, really slammed that kid hard.
He almost rolled him up and put an apple in his mouth and handed them to the backers on the bench
because that's where the play wanded up.
Boy, he really hit him.
And Carter almost disappeared with the time that was running out.
They're going to measure to see if it's a first down.
The ball is at the 44-yard line.
Virgil Carter managed to outrun Bob Brown, the defensive end of that play, pretty well.
And this is what sprang in then for the good run.
About two feet shy, Mike Pyle, that he takes to the rest of the ball club.
7'42 to go in the second quarter.
No score here at Green Bay.
The Packers and the Bears battling away here in Green Bay.
Boy, what a far cry this field is.
And this stadium from the days when the Packers used to play up here,
they'd come out on a streetcar and the people would park their cars.
And the Packers' idea with no dressing would be to huddle in the end zone with blankets around
and a big circle and the fans would come out and stand them, kibitzed the strategy,
and some of them would make suggestions of what plays to use in the second quarter.
Oh, Jack.
Second half.
They're going to go for it on fourth down to have the ball to the Green Bay 44-yard line.
They're going to go for it.
Oh, brother, what a gamble this is.
And Carter loses the football.
He falls on for a loss on the play.
Green Bay takes over at the 46.
There was a flag down on the play.
There was a flag down.
And the walk-off is against Green Bay.
Oh, and the Bears going to break on that one.
Oh, boy, offside against the Packers.
That gives the Bears their first down.
The ball on the 39-yard line that up Green Bay.
How about that, Mr. Cutler?
You do get a better look at the real thing, huh?
That was really a break.
Jack pointing it out, trying to get his anxiety and eagerness to pass off the ball.
Fumbles a take from center and barely recovered it.
And then the offside penalty, of course, made it possible for the Bears to continue their drive.
Here we go, Jack.
Okay, there's a big break.
The ball on the 39.
Bears ball on the Packer 39.
No score.
First and 10.
Carter back.
He has time.
He has protection.
He waits.
He throws that ball.
And it is knocked out by down at the 14.
It's a 20-to-25.
The 30.
And it's knocked out of the 32-yard line by Cecil Turner.
Virgil Carter going for the longest pass he's thrown so far today.
He was going for the bomb, as they say.
And the Packers went to throw that one coming here because there were three defenders already
to really engulf that ball.
And it was Tom Brown who did it, the Packers ball, now on their own 33-yard line.
First and 10.
Seven minutes and seven seconds.
They're headed to the second quarter at Green Bay.
Green Bay out of the huddle.
Boyd Downers to the right.
Liked out here to the left now is Carole Dale.
Two wonderful receivers.
Here's Bostar.
Makes the handoff to 15.
Watches him throw.
He waits.
He finally throws out here.
And the plan is knocked by Mars.
Letting the 90 out of the defense.
It's across the 42-to-43 yard line.
Down by Jimmy Pernell.
The linebacker on the right for the Bears.
Green Bay may have themselves a first down on that play.
It is a first down.
Putting the bomb, putting the 43- and 44-yard line.
Give them another charge right now.
We've got Mason now bursting down for the Bears.
The Packers on their own 44.
First and 10.
Downer to the right.
Carole Dale to the right.
Deuce Brackfield.
Donnie Anderson.
And off to Elijah Pitts.
Almost shoulder-to-shoulder directly behind the quarterback, Bart Star.
Blowing over the ball.
Single being barked out.
Five-minute rush for the Bears.
The handoff now to Donnie Anderson.
Weeps around the left side.
Gary Kramer blocking for him a little bit.
And he advances the ball to midfield.
Hit by two or three Bears.
First man to make contact with the phone.
Helped by Joe Seder and also Jimmy Pernell on the play.
Ball just shy of midfield.
And referee Haggarty is going to spot it down now.
Lloyd Phillips of the Bears is shaking his fist in that defensive huddle.
And employing these guys.
Come on now.
Let's hold it.
We can do it.
It's a good day to come to life for this ball club this year.
Lloyd Phillips, a high draft choice, who was out with a lot of injury problems last year.
But man, this big tough guy is in there for a while now.
Looks like he stands six-three, weighs 240.
This kid from Arkansas.
And he's rough and tough.
Second down.
Four yards to go for the first down.
Green baseball.
The handoff to a pitt off right side.
He goes.
He's got a lot of blocking.
He's got a big ball.
And he's well into Bear territory.
And the Bear 37-yard line.
Sipped up by Pettiball.
Knocked off.
Down by Joe Saber.
Ooh, man.
Just inside the very 18.
Calls the 18-yard line.
First to stand out on the green back of the stand.
That's about as big a hole as Mr. Pitts has had today.
And he's had a couple of good ones.
A 13-yard gain on that ball.
Jack, incidentally, by a star.
He's flown four times so far today.
And completed four.
He hasn't missed a pass yet so far.
Although on one intensive pass, he was thrown for a 13-yard loss by Edelbrecht and the Bear defense.
Here we go, Jack.
They're lined up.
Here's Star back again.
He throws and he hits his hand.
He hits that at Carrolldale at the Bear 25.
And Bart Star tries to pick that Bear defense apart now with those 10-point passing drives.
That one was good for 13.
That's a 13-yard, 12-yards, 11-yards.
These are the kinds of passes that Bart Star's making good on the course of the steady march.
He's put the Bear down inside the 25-yard line at the Bear 24.
Time out.
413 to go in the second quarter.
No score.
We'll be back with more action in just a minute.
They have the ball.
The Bear 24-yard line, first and 10 for Green Bay.
No score.
But there's a big threat going now.
The best the Packers have had.
Here's Pitts.
Tucked off left tackle.
There's a little hole there.
He's brought, however, to a fast-standing stop.
And finally slammed the ground by Pettibon and by Butkus.
Butkus, by the way, looks like the old Dick Butkus here so far this afternoon.
He's rough and tough.
The ball has been advanced to the Bear 22-yard line, given about two on that last play.
Call a second down.
Just a little over eight yards to go for, a little less than eight yards to go for the first down.
Three minutes, 43 seconds to go in the first half here at Green Bay.
The Bear defense and the Packer defense have certainly handled themselves beautifully this afternoon.
It's been a defensive afternoon.
Dowder to Dale both way to the right.
Marpley, tight left end, very close to the left tackle on this play.
Borman snaps the ball to Sparks.
Dyer rolls out to the right bar.
Now, look, throws to the left.
And it is deflected away by Purnell.
The target was a wide defense.
It's simply an incomplete pass in the 12-yard line.
Incomplete.
Of course, you have to say the Packers are over the field goal right now.
The man who tried their previous field goal has no field goals at all this year.
He does have four extra points.
Merstein has one and Kramer has four for Green Bay, but Bankson decided to use Mad to try to one field goal up as the Packers have made so far today.
Three-26 to go in the first half at Green Bay.
Again, they put Dowder and also Panadale way to the right.
Donnie Anderson and Elijah Fitz and the News Pack feel almost shoulder to shoulder.
They're almost put to the right, however, of the star.
Here's the play.
Up the middle he goes.
And this time it's batted down as it was intended for Marv Fleming by Bunkus and by Joe Taylor.
The kind of a pass over the middle that has been very successful for the Packers so far today.
Once they got that close to the bear goal was Oliver broken up as things start to move in and pinch in a little bit.
And now it looks like we're going to have another field goal effort by Harold Nass.
Incidentally, Jack Dix Bunkus played that last one perfectly, knowing just when to drop back to defend against the pass.
Dick, incidentally, is playing with a tremendous pain from bruised ribs.
But he's in there playing, as Jack said, in his typical corrosive style.
Here we go for the field goal.
Field goal effort, the 34.
Here's the boot.
Look out.
Now it is no good.
It had the distance, but it did not have the direction.
So again, the Bears are able to take over that ball after a Packers field goal at that first and 10-20 yard line.
And the Packers rather have it for the moment.
It is now Bears' ball, first time to go, 3.17 to go in the first half.
Time out of the field.
We'll return with more action in just one minute.
The Goga Bears will have a chance to go in first place today if they can beat these Green Bay Packers.
They have the ball on their own 20-carder.
Hands up, the Gale Sayers.
And the flat play by Gale, falling real hard across the 25 on that side.
He refused to give up that seed.
The ref was able to hang on to it like a bulldog, but not before Gale made himself eight on the play, making it second down two, putting the ball up a 28-yard line.
No score.
Two minutes and 58 seconds to go in the first half here at Lambeau Field in the Green Bay.
Dick Gordon cutting off the field.
That half time, a couple of reps, things up.
Have some outstanding guts for you.
Following the game, we'll have scores from all over.
Our guest is going to be Max McGee, the famous pass catcher in the first Super Bowl, which Green Bay won.
Here's the snap card, handing off to Sayers, right side.
There's a little hole.
He moves out here, shooting second there.
He's at the 40, 45.
He picks up the basket.
He's running through the blockers.
Touch to the left.
He may do it.
It's 30, 25, 20, 50.
He's carrying down the nine-yard line.
Oh, brother, Gale Sayers.
No play.
Going to play.
Has pulled that ball all the way down to the Green Bay nine-yard line.
Williward finally caught it and brothers 63 yards off that one.
And the Bears have first and goal to go.
This is one of the few times, if not the first time, that Sayers has hung to the right all day.
Time out.
We'll be back with the action in just a minute.
Here's the quarterback.
Carter looks for a receiver.
Steve's not.
And he tries to run with the ball.
And he is caught from behind by Jordan.
Henry Jordan.
He turns his tackle.
Moves it there.
He's just getting by an ankle.
That's Luzer's two-yard, puts the ball back on the 11-yard line.
The Great Green Bay Packers defense now calls them on to do something.
Quarterback Carter looks for a receiver.
Steve's not.
And he tries to run with the ball.
And he is caught from behind by Jordan.
Henry Jordan.
He turns his tackle.
Moves it there.
He's just getting by an ankle.
That's Luzer's two-yard, puts the ball back on the 11-yard line.
The Great Green Bay Packers defense now calls them on to do something.
The Bears have had it twice today.
Break up the backers scoring opportunity.
We have a scoreless ball game.
Two minutes to go.
In the first half, going on the clock here at Lambeau Field.
It's going to be second down.
Goal to go now for the Chicago Bears.
Actually, Carter was a step away from maybe actually doing it there.
Here's the late score here, Jack, while we're waiting for the two-minute warning to take a fake Baltimore's now increase the seed over to New York.
16 to nothing.
Baltimore 16, New York nothing.
And Dallas is leading New Orleans 7 to nothing in the second period.
And Pittsburgh 28 to nothing over at Lambeau in the third period.
It's finally showing us the air force by Pittsburgh, which barely won its first game of the year against Philadelphia last week.
Well, Jack, this is really an exciting ball game.
And Gale's there.
And Ole Miss first broken wide open with that 63-yard dash around right end.
He did some beautiful open field running as usual to get the ball down to the nine-yard line.
Now it's up to the Bears to capitalize on that splendid effort by Gale.
They're down on the 11-yard line.
Carter lost two on the first attempt.
He was looking for a receiver, found one open, and almost had a wide open opportunity to go for some distance on a run that was shipped up at the last second.
So now the Bears have a second down of 11 to go on the Green Bay 11-yard line.
And we're crushing here for the first score of the day.
Here we go, Jack.
Bob Wallace is put away to the right.
The ball came out. Three-wall has come in to replace Cadille at one of the guard positions.
Right guard.
Broke out a handoff now to Brian Piccolo.
He cuts off left guard.
Head down with that great second effort of his.
He fights his way to the six-yard line.
So he got five.
The initial contact from the tackle made by Lionel Aldrich that time.
Help on the tackle however from Bob Brown, the defensive end from Arkansas A&M.
Piccolo out. And 65-96B7 is the new name in that lineup this year for the Green Bay Packers.
It is going to be third down now.
Goal to go for the Chicago Bears.
The ball is on the Green Bay six-yard line.
Clark now showing 127 to go here in this first half.
Rather, if the Bears could score here and leave the field of half-time with a lead, it could be really something.
Could really touch them off.
Here's the handoff.
Fake down by Carter.
Also to the right.
He may run with the ball.
He's inside the five.
He's at the two-yard line.
The three-yard line.
It's hard.
Knocked down by Willie Davis.
And Carter shaking up on that play.
It's a little slow getting up.
Bob Brown also got involved.
Dave Robinson got in there and forced himself on the play.
But Willie Davis is the fellow who did it initially.
And now here comes Matt Percival on the field.
Davis taking the stop.
Well, with three seconds to go, he took the 47-yard field goal last week.
Now with 47 seconds to go, he's coming in to kick a three-yard field goal.
Clark ticking away.
Matt Percival will attempt a field goal.
Ralph Curick is committed to a little blocking.
Well, Bradovich is into a little blocking on this play.
John Johnson remains in.
Richie Pettibon will hold.
Looks like Willie Holman is also in to help out on the blocking.
And Wayne Moss.
Mike Riley has come in.
And now what?
Well, the Bears may be taking a little bit of a delay here.
And they may want that ball off back five yards.
Too close, Jack.
And they can get a better perspective and a better angle if they move the ball back five yards.
But the Green Bay Packers refuse to give it to them.
They may be blinded.
That's the first time you'll probably ever see, or one of the rare moments you'll ever see,
a five-yard penalty decline in that spot.
Okay, Percival will kick it from the ten-yard line on the angle.
Here's the boot.
It is up.
It is good.
Fill it out about it.
And so with 60 seconds to go, that is the tenth straight field goal kicked by Matt Percival
and the score, the Chicago Bears three, the Green Bay Packers nothing.
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I'm Jack Rickhouse, the mom of Irv Guttman here at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
We've got about 16 seconds left for a kickoff.
The clock is not official, but it's generally pretty close up here.
Well, cop, but the Percival didn't leave much doubt about that kickoff.
How long would it have left his toe, did he?
None whatsoever, but as long as the time element was such that it wasn't a big factor one way or the other.
The Bears thought they might as well waste those 30 seconds and see if they could get a better angle for the field goal to make sure.
But it wasn't necessary, as Percival soon proved.
Here we go, Jack, for the kickoff.
It looks like a flat-down kickoff for Percival on this one.
He hasn't seen the ball up at the 40-yard line at all.
It's lying, it's on that little tee, but it's, you know, it's parallel with the ground instead of being in a position to be raised up in the air.
Here's a low-line drive kickoff, and it carries down to the 11-yard line, taken there by Travis Williard.
And he's down now at the 27-yard line, returning the ball.
Major Hastleton, that's Jimmy Burnell reaching him in a hurry.
Bob Wallace coming down on the ball and was also involved in the tackle.
Put the ball at the 28-yard line.
And the Packers now have themselves with eight seconds to go.
Five, four, three, they're not going to get a playoff.
Two seconds, one second.
And there's the gun. The first half is over.
The first half at Green Bay.
Worth the score.
The Bears three, the Green Bay Packers nothing.
It's halftime now, and I know you've got a review for us, a few thousand words about those defenses, particularly some outstanding guests, so we'll see in a little while.
Here's the main check.
And at Lambeau Field here in Green Bay, the score is the Chicago Bears three, Green Bay nothing in what has been a tremendous defensive battle here in the first half.
Green Bay had two opportunities to get on the scoreboard, but both times, the man, their field goal kicker, missed the effort.
The Bears, of course, got down into scoring territory on a beautiful 63-yard run by Gale Sayers, who was having a tremendous, who had a tremendous first half, we should say.
He put the ball on the nine-yard line with the Bears unable to move as much from there, and Percival got back to the 10-yard line for a field goal to make the score three to nothing.
Incidentally, that's the tenth straight field goal that Mac Percival has booted for the Chicago Bears.
He booted five against Philadelphia, four against Minnesota last week, and one today to make his 10 straight.
Incidentally, Bart Starr had five consecutive passes, five consecutive completions in the first half before he missed, and he ended up the first half with five out of seven.
That's the way the scoring has gone in this first half, not much going, but certainly a lot of real thrills here as the Bears and Packers are engaged in one of their traditional Donnie Brooks.
This is really a rough ball game, well played, bitterly fought, and a real contest in every sense of the word.
Here are some scores in the third period. St. Louis is leading Philadelphia 21 to 17.
In the first period, Minnesota is leading the Washington Redskins three to nothing.
In the third period, Pittsburgh has gone wild down in Atlanta 34 to nothing, marching through Atlanta like you know who did many years ago.
In the third period, St. Louis is now leading Philadelphia 28 to 17, and Baltimore 16, and New York nothing in the second period there.
Well, I'll have my halftime guest Paul Horning here in just a moment.
Watching this huge crowd here, a capacity house of some 50,000 or so, and this beautiful new ballpark here, comparatively new, reminds us that 49 years ago a man named Frank Peck
gave $500 to a 21-year-old football player named Earl Lewis Curly-Nambo for the purchase of sweaters and stockings to offer to the football team.
And his journeys bore the legend Indian Packing Company, which was the name of Peck's business, and they've been known as the Packers of Green Bay ever since.
And it was just about the same time that a man and decater named A.E. Staley hired another 21 or 24-year-old athlete, George Stanley Hallis,
to organize a football team for the same purpose, to promote and advertise his business.
And you know what? A.E. Staley's became the Chicago Bears.
And that's where the beginnings of the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, who now are meeting for their 99th time here in Lambeau Field.
And now we are proud to announce that our guest here is Paul Horning, one of the all-time greats of Green Bay.
And certainly Paul has come home here to cheer for the Green Bay Packers, a team with which he achieved so much success and fame.
Paul, there's been quite a defense of battle this year.
You know, when the very defense is on, they're on. They're playing a real fine football game today.
The Packers are hitting. It's a real good defensive battle.
As I said last week, when you get a game like this, and you have somebody like a Gale Fairs, you can break it open at any moment.
I think both the teams are playing in the first quarter, just waiting, waiting to see who are going to make the mistakes.
And I think you're going to see Star go to the air more than the second half. They're going to have to show the football.
Apparently they're not going to do it on the ground. And Bart, of course, has five out of seven, I think, in the first half, which is not that heavy.
No, it's not.
It might be a meal of your hay day, Paul.
Yes. I'd rather have five than seven any time.
But Bart, you know, is a smart quarterback to realize that. And I'm sure that's what they're going over right now at halftime.
Did you have any questions about Carter's calling a play down on the field, on the goal line here when we had a first down on nine?
No, no, I didn't really. I think the ballpark, the Bears are rallying behind Berger-Sarcy.
Young fella, I've been very quite amazed that he's quite exposure under pressure.
This is the first really thick football game. You know, that means so much to the Bears that he's in and he's performing again like the Bears know he can.
And you know, one other thing happens when you get a quarter back like this. The rest of the Bears, well, they give a little bit extra effort because they want him to have a good day and they want to know that they have the confidence in him.
And you're seeing the third straight week of extra effort on the part of the Bears. They want to win for Carter.
There's no question about that, Paul. The Bears really have been putting out for him.
And I look forward to the Bears to keep that ground game going in the second half and as you say, Green Bay will probably go to the Air more in the second half.
Well, yes. And you know, we talked last week. There's only one way you can beat the Packers is you beat it with controlled-type football.
Turn in, turn out in the passing game. You saw exactly that. Carter hit Turner a few times and those little Packers are using what they call a zone defense.
They're covering most of the zone deep and prevent the long bomb. And to control the football, you have to throw those short 12, 14-yard turn in, turn out and go to your back.
Of course, the Bears, you can just keep plugging away even if a play doesn't gain one or two or maybe three yards.
Sometimes during that football game, the Bears is capable of breaking it open.
Paul, we want to thank you so much for dashing over here. And you all remember Paul Hornet? You can see him on Rush Street on a Sunday night.
You can hear him on Channel 2 and on CBS and DBM radio in Chicago, right, Paul?
That's right, Irv. Fine. We're delighted that Paul has chosen Chicago to make his home and his profession after leaving the Green Bay Packers.
Our halftime guest, Paul Hornet, will be back with more halftime activity in just a moment.
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Here are the first half statistics. We'd like to see once again that the Chicago Bears are leading at the halftime three to nothing on a 10 yard field goal by Mack Percival, his 10th straight for the Chicago Bears.
At the first half, the Bears have five and the Packers have five.
In total yardage, the Bears have 179 yards against 111 for the Packers, giving the Bears a good edge there.
The Bears have 24 offensive plays, the Packers have 22.
And yet yards rushing, the Bears have 147,
have 52 for the Packers. That gives the Bears a considerable edge there.
In passing yardage, the Bears have picked up 52 and the Packers,
no, let me correct that, the Bears have picked up 32 and the Packers have 59.
Carter attempted six passes and completed three and has one interception.
Clark Starr attempted seven passes and has five completions.
Main ball carrying has been done of course by Gayo's players.
And Gayo has carried the ball 10 times for 118 yards, an average of 11.8 for Kerry, the longest run of 63 yards.
She already has gone over the mark of a great day, 118 yards already in the first half and with a big second half coming up.
The teams are about to return to the field. We'll have the kickoff for the second half in just a moment.
Earl Mann is going to kick off, the deep end for the Bears starting this third quarter with the Bears ahead, three to nothing.
Mack Percival's last minute field goal there. Brian Gordon and Gayo Sayers has the deep end.
Here's the run up, here's the boot, here's the wobbly one.
It bounces, picked up by Sayers in the tabby, he's in the 20, the 25, 30, 35 running hard, trapped by the jersey.
And finally, he's dropped down by a swarm of Packers.
The first man to reach the front car all the way down to the Green Bay Packers 45-yard line. Man, did he want to shake loose again.
He ran for 63 yards. The first half has set up the only score of this football game up until now.
Bears ball first and tend to go, football on the Packers 44-yard line.
Berger caught in the quarterback, out of the huddle, they come. Cecil Turner split away to the left, Dick Gordon is out to the right.
Sayers is kind of in a slot to the right, almost winged off the right tackle, Bob Wittach, Karani ball in an ace backfield.
And there's the handoff to Karani, over the middle he goes.
Little blast blocking as the Bears try to push this ball forward.
The real bottom man on this ball set up this time is Henry Jordan, the veteran. He's been on the bottom of a lot of tackles.
The ball was advanced to the Packers 41-yard line. That's going to make a second down now.
Just about seven yards to go. Give them free on that play. Nearly four yards.
Third quarter just underway. Third quarter, 5th of 28th, the Falcons jumping.
Third quarter, the Cardinals 21, Fiddle Elf, the Eagles 17.
Second quarter, Baltimore 16, the Giants nothing.
The Bears three, Green Bay nothing. Hear that Green Bay pile over that ball on the left field.
On his right, Cadillo, the two guards, the tackle, Jackson and Wotoska, Austin Denny, the tight left end.
They're shoulder to shoulder down there. Handoff to Gale Sayers going off the left side.
And he has got first down yardage it looks like as he moves off the left guard spot, the left side of the better line,
doing some good blocking that time and moving.
If it's possible to do it, I suppose that kind of blocking can do it.
Fellows like Henry Jordan and Lionel Aldrich and also the right linebacker, Cappy.
Did they make it? They certainly did.
First down now for the Bears. They move inside the 35, so 34 yard line of the Green Bay Packers.
They're huddling back on the 45, young Virgil Carter, the quarterback.
Jack Conkana, the Bear quarterback, recovering from an injury.
He's up on the phones with the coaches up here.
At halftime he told us he looks for Barksaw to use more of those same passes, those hook-ins from the right and the left
that they used successfully in the first half.
Here's a handoff now to Ronnie Bull.
And again, it is Jordan who grabs him with Ronnie with the momentum that he can generate with those 200 pounds of his
and those powerful legs, drives hard, off-left guard,
advances the ball down to the Green Bay Packers, 31 yard line almost, just a foot or so shy of it.
That's going to make it now, second down, seven, give them three on the last play.
Second down, seven yards to go for a first down.
The ball is almost at the 31 yard line of the Green Bay Packers.
Some of it's like David Albin's play and Willie Davis has a little hurdle here off to the left of the play.
Also I see that Forrest Greg and Bob Brown looking furry.
Make that Bob Brown and the defense of an average.
And here is Carter rolling out to the right.
He's going to carry the ball.
He's at the 30, the 25, and he's down very hard, hit by Herb Adderley who rode him out of bounds
and landed on top of him.
And Carter picks himself up right away.
He's a tough kid.
And it looks like another first half of the bear.
That's Surrey, that puts the ball up 23 yards out the Green Bay.
The boys are still at it.
They're really talking in tune and they said they had to and they've been staying on the ground here
in the first half as they move down the field very nicely.
Of course with Gale Sayers in there, the threat is always there that the Green Bay Packers have to watch for
very, very carefully and sometimes you can counter because of that threat of Gale Sayers.
Here we go, Jack.
They have a flop formation right.
Jim the flop to the right this time is Bull.
A handoff to Brian Piccolo, relieving Sayers and he runs back into Mr. Dave Robinson who says,
come to me, baby, I want to pick you up and just cuddle you for a minute.
And he lands into the ground.
Ran right into him.
And he almost sealed it, Piccolo, like a man fielding a wide drive that time.
Piccolo is one of the great second effort men.
Piccolo out in for one play that time.
And he is also trotting out with third down.
Second down now, nine yards to go.
The ball is on the Green Bay Packers, 22 and a half yard line.
Here's out in front three to nothing, Virgil Carter looking left and right.
Four men on the rush and four defensive backs.
Now here's a quick opener as Honey Bowl explodes over the middle and gets down to the 20, 16 yard line.
And here's Brown, the secondary man, making the pass.
That was a real quick opener and actually I kind of looked for Ronnie to go farther on that play.
They were a little lucky Green Bay that he didn't explode almost all the way on that one
because they only had a four-man rush going and four men as defensive backs,
four linebackers on the play just as the play started to unfold.
And he was past all eight of those guys on a real quick opener.
Third down now, three yards to go for a first down.
The Bears have the ball at the 16 or 17 yard line, called up the 16 yard line of Green Bay.
Third down, here's the snap, here's the hand off the ball.
And on the crossback this time he may have made the first down.
A nice, deceptive big hand off to Sayer, suddenly Bull operating from the right side.
He landed off to the left and cut just inside the right tackle.
On the defense and just make first down for the Bears who have now pushed again toward that Green Bay Packers goal.
Will they have first down at the 12 yard line, almost the 11.
Will caught up the 11 yard line as a matter of fact.
First to the left of the Bears, 10.23 to go here in this third quarter.
Cuddling for the Bears, calling the shot.
Virgil Cahn of the young quarterback, Gale Sayers in an ace back field.
Slotted to the left now just between the tackle.
Randy Jackson, Robson Denny is Ronnie Bull, the hand off to Sayer.
He cuts inside just where Bull was, he's at the five, the three yard line.
Knockdown, caught from behind by Dave Robinson, also helping on that tackle.
Big Bob Brown.
And now it's going to be second down for the Bears.
They have that ball at the three and a half yard line of the Green Bay Packers.
And up there, offensive line is doing outstanding work at this moment in this game.
9.43 to go.
We're in the third quarter to Green Bay.
It is second down, about a yard to go for first down,
three and a half to go for the touchdown for the Chicago Bears.
Watch this one, big play coming up maybe.
Goose back field, Ronnie Bull and Sayers almost shoulder to shoulder,
less than a yard apart in the back field.
The hand off goes to Ronnie Bull, head down, he bores and he's way shy on the goal line by about a yard and a half.
And that's considerable distance by these terms.
Get under these conditions, but he still managed to get some yardage on the play, possibly enough for a first down.
Bob Brown, the bottom end of the tackle, and out comes the chain gang to see if it is a first down.
And if it is, the Bears will have first and goal to go at the two.
It's going to be close.
I don't believe he's going to make it on this one.
Nope, he's about, oh, I'd say five or six minutes a shot, no more earth.
Just close, third down.
Third down.
Would you or Carter, would you risk assassination here by a quarterback snake cup?
I guess that's his number one choice, I would say.
Unless he wants to pull a surprise and send Gale on one of their stonewall tackle plays
and go for the whole work here instead of for the first down.
And he may do that.
The Bears have got good running power behind Gale, good blocking for him today.
And you know, he can go, he can pick up three yards.
Both Ty Dand, Michael and Austin Denny are in there to do some blocking.
A real powerful, blast blocking set up.
And the handoff goes to Sayers.
He dives off left guard.
It's going to be very, very close.
Now they only needed about six inches for the first down.
Gale Sayers, springing forward the moment he got that ball in his midsection,
just made a dive right into that mass of humanity out there.
And getting up are several backers.
George, Brown, Aldrich, the key men on the tackle, help on it by Niski,
who's the middle linebacker.
They've moved that ball.
It looks like they might make that first down on that plan.
They did by the length of the football.
So first and goal to go now for the Chicago Bears.
They have it first and goal to go and a free to nothing lead for the Bears.
They have the ball, goes inside the two-yard line of Drain Bay.
Rachel Carter, a real center of the story up to now.
A fellow who just a short time ago was on the taxi squad.
Now he's the most talked about quarterback in the football game today.
Here's the snap.
And it's the keeper and he's got it easy.
Oh, standing up, Rachel Carter, breaking the lead off.
We'll make that tomorrow around the left right.
And about six or seven of his old men gang up on him.
Mike Howe, George Seals, potting him on the bat.
He's still turning.
Oh, did he look slick on that one.
That was a beautiful play called just at the right time.
The psychological point was that they were watching Gale's players on the sweep to the other side.
And Carter did the right thing.
He faked it to Gale and kept it in the growth.
Hit it on and then it's blended around the left end for the touchdown.
Incidentally, Jack, the Bears march down the field without the use of one forward pass.
Here we go for the extra point.
The move by Percival is perfect.
Eight thirty-seven to go in the third quarter.
And the score of this game is now the Chicago Bears have the Green Bay Packers topping.
And we'll be returning with the kickoff in just one minute.
Adderley and Travis Williams of the Deep Band Percival holds his hand up.
And again, I noticed he's not using the tee up.
The ball fell off of the tee, but, well, I guess he is deciding to use the tee it up now.
The last time he kicked off, it was a flat kick off that tee.
But now, Mac Percival backs up.
The two receivers, the Deep Men, are inside the 10 at about the seven-yard line.
Here's a run-up.
He posted his high.
Carter is very high and very well.
He's posted out at the five-yard line, taken by Williams at the 10 to 15.
And he's set at the 18-yard line.
Hit very, very hard by Jussie Bofall.
Jerry Weill also getting it in that tackle.
And now the Bears.
And a roused ball club.
You can see, as I told you before the ball game, he was in the dressing room.
And this ball club is as high as a kite today.
They're really roused.
The Green Bay Packers are still the cool, tough champions.
They're a well-organized unit.
They come out of the huddle now.
The ball is on the 19-yard line.
Green Bay's ball, first and 10 to go.
Bart Starr has the job of trying to overcome a 10-point deficit.
Bears out in front, 10 to nothing.
Here's the snap.
The fake handoff.
And here is a pass out on the planet.
It is caught by a line.
This is the 20.
He's at the 25.
And upended by Richie Fennibar.
The crusher tackle put on him by Dick Bucke.
That's the 20-yard line.
Very close to first down yardage.
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Ball on the 28.
Second down.
About a yard to go for first down.
The handoff goes to Pith.
And Elijah goes off right guard.
He's got his first down yardage.
They've moved the ball out of the 31-yard line.
Seven minutes and 15 seconds to go in the third quarter of Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
A down of over 50,000, which means that again every seat is sold up here on this perfect autumn afternoon.
The multicolored wardrobe reports that the football fandom will wear at the time of the year.
Clear skies, blue skies.
The field just drenched in sunshine most of the afternoon here.
And what a stunning this is.
Two great ball clubs battling it out.
Here's Bartzah.
He waits.
He throws up the medal.
And it's way over the head.
That's a 42-yard line.
Carrolldale for Holman was intended.
You can bet that the Bear Pass defense is going to have its work cut out for it here in this fourth quarter coming up here in the remainder of this third quarter.
Because if the Bears are still ahead, it will be fairly evident that Bartzah will go to the air more than ever in order to try to move that ball and move it in a hurry.
And of course, nobody but nobody in this world can milk a clock like Bartzah.
Nobody can spot those little bitty weaknesses, those chinks in the armor better than he can.
He's one of the cleverest quarterbacks to have ever come down the pike.
Morrie down the way to the right, Carrolldale in the slot to the right, second down, 10.
The ball is 30 and back goes Star once more.
He backs up his money, throws up the medal, and here he is.
Right down.
And the intended receiver Anderson was tackled out in the open while the ball was still in the air at the 44-yard line.
Ricky Pettiball and Bucket were both after him on that one.
Bucket is backed up to anticipate the play, and I think Dick is the one who put the tackle on him.
That will be first to 10. That goes to class interference.
The linebacker, incidentally, has an interesting instinct that he has to develop as regards to that kind of a play.
Whether to rush or whether to back up and help out on past events, this is something he has to make up his mind of.
For one thing, he has to watch the quarterback's eyes a lot.
First and 10, then. The ball is at the 44-yard line at Green Bay.
Elijah Bitt over the medal. He's got a little day light.
He advances the ball to near midfield, the 49-yard line.
Tackle made again by Lloyd Phillips, who's been playing some real rough, tough, hard-nosed football for the Bears the last few weeks particularly.
Little yardage on the play. Give them six altogether, and that makes it now second down, four yards to go for a first down.
The Green Bay Packers have moved that ball to their own 49-yard line.
Bears on the defense, Lloyd Phillips, Dick Eby, John Johnson, Ella Bradovich, Doug Perfau, and for now the linebacker's up on the line, giving the Bears the six-man rush.
Butch is directly over the center almost. Here's the hand up now to Anderson. He sweeps around the left side, and he is out of bounds at midfield.
They have made a yard on the play. Yet we have not seen Jim Grabowski in this game. Jim has had a little bit of an injury problem.
Elijah Fitz has been doing such a good job anyway that I can understand why Brinkman would want to stay with Elijah at this time.
Elijah gives him a lot more speed in the back. That's what they've been looking for, apparently.
And not the power that Jim Grabowski has, but the speed that Elijah Fitz has is getting him in the line up there.
We see Jim down on the sidelines, the only Chicago favorite of ours, and he looks like he's raring to go. He always gives a good performance.
Third down, just about four yards to go for the first down of the ball.
Well, he is midfield, green baseball, Bears ahead, 10 to nothing in this quarter.
And there is Star dropping back. He's pumped, and now he's going all the way down here, and it's going to be a touchdown.
Way in the open. Oh, boy. They made that one look real easy. Caravale will never be more open in his life than he was on that tackle, Greg.
A practice, practice fair. There's no nobody at all. Was anywhere near him. There was no defense on that play.
The closest ran to him was Joe Taylor, and Joe had to be a good 15 yards away from him.
And so the backers have struck through the air for 50 yards, and that is the Bears defense for the first time.
The backers are going to try to keep that ball on the ground. It hasn't worked. The Bears defense has been 2-0.
The backers have gone in the air, and Mark Starr has penetrated the Bears for the first time.
That will kick. Bears to boot. It's good. 5.51 to go in the third quarter. The Bears have green 37.
We'll be back with a kickoff in just one minute.
Jack, that touchdown pass by Starr-Gaudere was a complete breakdown by the Bears defense.
He was out there all by himself. He couldn't conceivably be that he was supposed to be covered by anybody in that field.
Here we go, Jack. Jerry Kramer kicked off his side. Jerry's very well.
It's going into the end zone and out of the end zone. Gale Sayers decides not to try to do anything with it.
It'll be the Bears ball. First and center goal in a row. 20-yard line. Bears have a 10-7 lead.
The margin at this point provided by the field goal of the last few seconds of the first half by Backeversville,
who is now 6th in a row. The record is 12 in a row.
Bobby Lane, I believe, has it. And also, I'm not sure, but I think George Blander may have kicked 12 in a row anyway.
We'll worry about that later. For some reason or another, the test of field goals are not included in the record book,
which the NFL provides us. Bears ball, first and center goal in their own 20-yard line.
The other number 15, Carter, hands off to Gale Sayers. And Gale trying to cut back as he pulls out on the left, is down.
As he crosses the 20 through, there was a flag down on the play.
And we'll have a walk off against the Green Bay Packers, advancing the ball up to the Chicago Bears, 34-yard line.
Now he decides he's got the double take and puts it at the 37-yard line.
It is a personal foul, grabbing the mass mentally against one of the Packers.
15 yards on that play. The Bears have first and 10 to go on their own 37-yard line.
File over the ball. On the left is him, is George Seals, the right guard, is Cadille.
They're both doing good work again today. Wayne Moss, the right tackle.
Randy Jackson, the left tackle. Denny, the tight left-handed.
Here's the pass over the middle and it's intended for Turner in and out of his fingers.
And Segal was off to the races on that one. Boy, if he can hang on to that one,
Willie Wood and Tom Brown and Adderley all started to try to move in on him at the same time and grab the mass.
Actually, the pass found its way through that maze and there was nobody behind Segal Turner and the Green Bay Goals.
That was a beautiful pass and brother I know Segal Turner wanted to catch that more than anybody in the stadium,
but it hit him in the hands and bounced right out for no reason that we could see.
And he feels as badly as anybody out here because that looks like it might have been a TD.
Here we go, James. 5.40 to go in the third quarter. Second down, 10 for the Bears.
Pull on the left. Gale Sayers on the right in the setup and back goes Carter.
He looks, he may run. He does.
Ronnie's in the 40. Sutter steps him on it and finally is down at the 44-yard line met by Willie Wood and by Nitschke.
That's Boxer Ball now. They're going to get to the 45-yard line almost on this one.
Willie Wood. That's going to leave him just maybe a couple of yards shy of a first down off third down.
So here's a big play for the Bears offensive. They can get a couple of yards here and get a fresh set of outs.
Who knows what might happen here in the remaining five minutes and 13 seconds of the third quarter at Green Bay.
Ball on the 35-yard line, rather the huddle on the 35-yard line and the ball on the 45-yard line.
Bears ball first and then Carter. Looks left and right.
He puts his hands up for Sadat from the crowd, which is not maybe the best idea in the world from a Green Bay crowd.
And here's Sayers. He gets a little bit of a run from Ronnie Ball and he has got his first down yardage.
Gale Sayers moving off the left of the slam play.
Nitschke an extra yard with him. That's first down for the Bears.
Getting up a little slowly from the tackle also is Leroy Caffey, one of the outside linebackers, another veteran with the Green Bay Packers.
The Bears are the champions again, find themselves being pushed around a little bit by the Bears.
Gale Sayers lost a shoe on that play so he walked over to the sideline for another equipment repair session while Brian Piccolo comes in to relieve him.
Gale standing very close to Billy Martell, the equipment man, putting his shoe back on.
Good luck, man. Kind of kibitzing the operation a little bit along with Cody, Ed Cody.
Bears ball first and 10 to go on their 48 yard line. Here's Carter. He looks for a receiver.
He's got Turner. This time he'll make the diving effort for the ball incomplete.
That was his 45 yard line.
And the reason the crowd is blowing here, this part of the Green Bay crowd, is because they thought the shooter actually should have been credit with catching the pass
because it bounced out of his hands as he hit the ground and one of the Green Bay Manzellos.
That, of course, has given Green Bay a recovered fumble.
The pass is real simply an incomplete pass with 4.04 to go in the third quarter.
The Bears 10 to factor 7. It is sunken down 10 now.
The Stronger Bears on the football at the 49 yard line of the Bears.
Ball on the left and Brian Piccolo on the right in the loose backfield.
Slotted to the right is Turner. Here's Carter dropping back in, backpedals. He throws a screen over the line.
Fumble by Ronnie Bull. Had his hands on it but just could not hang onto it.
He and Mitchie Bull went rolling out of bounds, tumbling over to the fair branch where Ed Cote and Avery Giffrin and Jim Dilley all had to move fast to get out of the way of the flooring bodies.
Now with...
Turner down.
And 10 yards to go for the first out. The Bears still have the ball in their own 49 yard line.
Third down.
Now this is the kind of a situation in which Barstow excels. This is what makes them a great quarterback.
The ability to get 10 yards in a spot like this on third down a long yardie.
Let's see if Virgil Carter can come up with the right play.
Brian Piccolo is slotted out to the left. Here's Carter. He drops back again. Willie Davis has a little rush on him and he loses the ball.
There's a battle for him at the 41 yard line and the Bears have recovered.
Whoo boy! Huge loss on the play. They almost lost the football to Green Bay.
The fellow who recovered was Bob Witowska for the Bears. The tackle was backed up to protect and do a little pass blocking for Carter.
Witowska, generally, gave one of the great blocks on that run of Gale Sayers. That 63 yard run which set up the field goal as it turned out in the first half.
So that puts the ball way back on the 42 yard line and John Kilgore will now play.
Three minutes, 30 seconds to go in the third quarter at Green Bay.
Dropping back in the twin safety for the Packers, R. Brown and Willie Woods. They're heading not too far from the 20 yard line.
He gets the kick away from the 31. That's a terrible boost.
Right off the side of his foot and it goes out of bounds at the back of the 42 yard line.
Right off the side of his foot. John Kilgore has bad luck and that punt is a net 16 yards from Trinney.
Time out of the field, 3.19 to go in the third quarter. Score 10 to 7 Bears. We'll return with more action and jokes. One minute.
The game continues at the beginning of side three to set number two.
Packers ball, first to 10 to the 41 yard line. Bears ahead 10 to 7. 3.19 to go in the third quarter.
Bart Starr gets the ball, moves out to his left. Tops the arm, throws way down there.
The first time he's been in there's a fly down. The Packers were hollering their heads off.
Buckets, a line of Witz-Ribowski, the two a line high. Giving each other a hard time and it could be one.
But Inter finish rolling against the Bears. That's what it is all right.
That gives the Packers first down of the Bear 45 yard line.
Jim Witz-Ribowski in for the first time this afternoon. Here's the final score. The St. Louis Cardinals 45, the Philadelphia Eagles 17, Q Herrick and the Eagles are now 0-8.
One eye, first to 10, Green Bay. Double slot left.
The handoff to Witz-Ribowski. Over left side, going in there and he's got the play line way down to the 30 yard line.
A big hole ripped in the Bear's blocking. The Bear's defending by the blocking and the right side of the Bear defense just barely to the right of center as Kenny Boatman and Jerry Kramer just combined blocking.
Along with Gail Gullingham on that one.
Now Major Haselton comes in and Mike Riley is coming in. One of the Bears has a little slow getting up down there. He is sitting down at the 25 yard line. Ed Rosie, the Bear trainer and Dr. Ted Fox come out to have a little look at him. Billy Martell, the equipment man, is also out there and Ed Rosie's assistant. That could be Obradovich.
Nope it's not. Obradovich is up. There's a seven on his uniform so that means it's got to be Pettibone, the other with a seven on his uniform. Obradovich 87 and Pettibone 17 and the Bears defensive set up. And it looks like Richie Pettibone was jarred on the play.
The Bears have Green Bay 7. Green Bay is threatening out of it the way they're beginning to move with 251 to go in the third quarter. You're right Jack. Green Bay has got the momentum now and it looks tough for our Chicago Bears. The Bears were stopped offensively by a very south Green Bay defense in the last series of downs and the incomplete advances and so forth.
The Bears forced a punt and Kilgore got off only a 15 yard punt which added to the Bears woes at this moment and Green Bay has more impetus and now they are on the march and the Bears defense has done its work out off our top two.
That's the rally at this point. Here we go. We're back in action. It's a first down 10 on the Bears 30 yard line for the Green Bay Pack. Let's go Jack.
All right they're lined up. Ball on the 30 and here's Starp taking a hand off Kravatsky. Now he throws the sideline pass. Incomplete. The target was Maura Fleming the tight left end.
The Bears defensive backs here are Benny McCray, Joe Taylor, Rosamil Taylor and Curtis Gentry who has replaced Richie Pettibone. It is now going to be second down 10 Green Bay's ball on the Chicago Bear 30 yard line. The clock now shows 2 minutes and 46 seconds to go in the third quarter.
The Bear defense certainly has its work cut out for it as we said closing out the first half. But for the Bear pass defense they really have its work cut out for here in the next several minutes and back goes Starp once more.
Here's the pass. He hits his man. He hits Dale at the 19 yard line. The flat out just a little bit away from a flat pass. And diddy or diddy not make first down yard. He did. Made it with a couple of feet to spare. That puts the ball now first and 10 Green Bay on the Bear 19 yard line.
Let's see what this Bear defense can do. They have been superb for the most part today particularly those front rush men and the linebackers.
First and 10 the ball on the Bear 19 yard line. Watch Starp. Hands up now to Travis Williams. Reaps the round to the right. Cuts inside a block by Jerry Kramer who managed to take the right end out.
Ball down to the 15 yard line. Bottom end of the tackle for Zettel Gradovid along with Dick Butchett. And Kramer actually took the linebacker for phone out who would line up on the left side.
So who's no longer the linebacker but instead was the defensive left end of the play. And he's the one Jerry Kramer took out and the ball carrier cut right inside of that.
The first break coming in. It is now second down. Ball from 15 yard line. The snap, the handoff goes to Grabasco. Over the middle goes Jimmy.
And even though he is upended, not off balance as he gets through that hole in the right side of the line just to the right of center he still managed to move the ball down to the 11 yard line.
Should they jump third down a yard to go for first down. Third down and one. And the backers if they do not get first down on this next play are going to have a decision to make.
Should they go for the guy field goal or should they press on to try to get the touchdown.
Well that's anticipating a little far in advance because right now we have to concentrate on this very next play to see what happens on third down and a yard to go.
A little over a yard to go for first down. The ball up the Chicago Bear 11 yard line. Watch it now. They're all lined up.
That's the ball to start. The handoff now on the slow count to Williams. He's three to the left side and it's going to be close. I don't know whether he made first down yardage or not.
I don't think he did. He's down. As he tried to turn the corner by Brunel and Dick Butkus who threw his body through the air that's 140 pounds real well and gawked up that play as Williams tried to turn the corner.
And now in comes Chuck Mercin who is going to attempt a field goal. Looks like Chuck Mercin who was certainly a real find for these fellows last year.
From New Trier, from Yale. The kick will come from right about the 19 yard line. The line of scrimmage is the 11 and a half and there goes the gun. The third quarter is ended. So the first play of the fourth quarter no doubt will be a field goal effort this score.
At the end of the third quarter the Bears 10, the Green Bay Packers 7.
We're just about to start the fourth quarter of what has turned into another typical Green Bay Bear football game. A lot of headbumping. You can hear the bone and muscles colliding up here in the booth where we are.
The first play of this fourth quarter is going to be Chuck Mercin's field goal effort from the 19 yard line. Boxed on a wheel hole. Here's the kick. It is good.
That's all the score of the game is now. The Bears 10, Green Bay 10. We'll be back with the kickoff in just a minute.
And now the kick and the ball bounces away from Tim Gordon and is down in the end zone by Gordon I believe. It's very, very close.
We have rule of safety against the Bears. Gordon actually made contact with the ball. The officials opinion on about the one-point line split under the end zone and down the fair and consequently the impetus that provided the ball moving into the end zone was provided by the Bears.
And now the Bears have a chance to get a green bay. I believe they have rule of safety for Green Bay which of course would give them the lead.
Wait a minute. Now what?
Well, it's being the case of course the Bears have to kick off from their 20 yard line and give Green Bay the ball and the two points.
Wait a minute. I guess not, Chubb. Certainly they changed it. At first they gave the signal for safety and now just an ordinary touchback. The Bears have possession of the ball on the 20 yard line and the score is still 10 to 10.
They took away the safety which was the original decision by the officials.
And the backer bands are blowing and blowing and blowing. I think it should have been a safety all the way. One official raced over there and in the gesture which indicates a safety which he held his palms together, pointed upward and high above his head.
And that is definitely a safety call. And it was backed up by another official who was near there who gave the same sign. We automatically, and so did all the other people here, think that the Bears have been put at a disadvantage in the game by a safety.
But instead they rolled it a touchback. Bears ball first and 10 and listen to this crowd boo. Alright, Bears ball first and 10 on their own 20 yard line. The game is still tied at 10 to 10. We're in the fourth quarter. Here's the handoff to Bears. A quick opener.
Gale loses the football. It's a battle at the 30 yard line. The Bears recover. Two Bears making a dive for the ball as it squirts out of Gale's hands and the fellow who fell on it was Ronnie Ball. Both he and Cecil Turner made a real fast reflex dive for the ball.
The Bears keep a few yards on the front ball putting the ball just inches away from a first down at the almost the 30 yard line. Bears ball first and 10 and from here on out they're going to separate the men from the boys in this game.
14-15 to go. Game tied 10 to 10. The handoff to Bears. He's got his first down and he hangs onto the football. He's still going. Second effort and he moves all the way to the 42 yard line before Willie Wood managed to hang on with a real tenacious grip.
And that was close because it looked like Gale had managed to bounce away from everybody including Willie but Willie grabbed that one leg and held on. First and 10 for the Bears as Bears ripped off some more yardies.
Moving the ball up to the 42 yard line. May 12 on that last play. First and 10 Bears are out there now where a couple of good games now will put them in packer territory in an impressive manner.
Here's Carter. He looks for a receiver. Looks like those and he hits Piccolo. Good catch by Bryant. He's across midfield at the 48 yard line. Credit Piccolo on that last play with a very fine catch.
Bryant Piccolo in there relieving Gale Sayers momentarily as he has so frequently today. 11 yards on that play. Let's go on five seconds for a station break. This is the WGN Chicago Bears football network. WGN Radio Chicago where you can hear the Bulls and the Blackhawks and Illinois and Michigan next Saturday at 12-10.
Jack Brickhouse comes in back here now at Lambeau Stadium. Bob Wallace is in. He's way out there at the flanker end. It is first and 10 for the Bears. They have the ball up the 48 yard line. Here's the snap. The handoff goes to Piccolo.
Head down he plows and he runs right into Willie Davis. It's like bulldozing a steer. Willie grabs him by the helmet and down he goes. No game. Two-amounts or anything on this way. Well, maybe we'll give them a couple of feet. They'll get as far as the forward motion carried them which puts them at the, oh, we'll say the 47 yard line.
Second down and just about, well, he made a couple of feet. We'll call it second down. Well, make it second down 10 because he didn't make that much yardage. Second down 10. Fourth period, Baltimore 26, New York nothing. Final, Pittsburgh 41, Atlanta 21.
Goose backfield for the Bears. And here's Carter running around to the right. He's going to try to outrun everybody. He outruns Oldridge. He's at the point and collides with his own man on the far side of the field and is knocked out.
Oh, brother. Both Virgil Carter and Bob Wallace who was run down field and then started back and started back to see if he could do a little blocking I guess right into his own man Carter and knocked almost both of them cold.
There's one of the most freaky things I've ever seen of the Open Field Cup. That certainly is hard to understand. Now a man out there to block runs into his own man and knocks him out almost knocked him out. And that is one of the, and there's a penalty on the play on top of that.
Add to the embarrassment, a penalty. You don't suppose they're charging Wallace with unnecessary roughness against his own teammate, do you?
Where's that everything else happen today here? Bears have a 15 yard penalty here, Jack, for grabbing the face mask. Now how about the offensive team get an impenetrable for grabbing a face mask? That's usually a defensive maneuver.
And here the Bears are slapped with that 15 yard penalty. Well, let's keep the rally going anyway.
The ball is on the 43 yard line of the Bears. Right now, second down, 20 yards to go for a first down for the Bears. Second down, 20 to ball game guys, 10 to 10, 1149 to go here at Green Bay. We're in the fourth quarter. Here's Carter dropping back. He waits, he waits. He now moves out of the pocket. He throws and it's in.
And that's it by Jeter at the 44. Picks himself up, he moves up to the 50 yard line. He is now nearly at midfield. The ball deflected out of the hands of the intended receiver.
And Bob Jeter, with a great reflex effort, managed to pick that ball up in the air about six inches off the ground. He fell down, trampled to his feet. The play was through emotion. It has not been dead. Consequently, he was allowed to keep on going and he advanced it back to the 49 yard line of Green Bay.
1130 yards to go in this football game. It's Bart Starr with a ball game all tied at 10 to 10. The left side heavy with intended receivers or possible receivers, but he gives the ball to Anderson to sweep around the right side.
The ball is grabbed in the air by Purnell and must be a free throw to be for now. Maybe thrown out of the game. He's so angry. That's Gary Bergman, the headliner who rules that it's not a recovered combo by the Bears.
Now wait a minute, the Bear Offensive field has come out in the field and Bergman has been overruled.
He's started to say no, although it's possible that what he might have been telling Jimmy was you cannot advance the ball, you're out of bounds. Jimmy may have misunderstood him.
But anyway, the Bears own that football. Anderson after a good rebound with a pretty good game, lost the ball and popped it up in the air and Jimmy Purnell smacked it out of the air. His foot did go out of bounds near the Packer bench.
And the Bears have the ball now first and 10 to go on their own 42 yard line. Talk about excitement. We've got it now. We're in the last 11 minutes and 13 seconds. Here's Sayers creeping around the left side and he moves up to the 48 yard line.
Thanks to all, Ankerley on the ground to be down, mad at himself, unhappy because he was unable to escape Leroy Cappy who knocked him out balance and down.
Gale Sayers all worked up, really charged up as are all the rest of the Bears and this football is very, very unhappy with himself because he didn't go all the way on that play. Of course he gets unhappy when he doesn't go all the way on every play. That's the kind of an intense football player he is.
Second down, four to go, made six on that last one. Jerry Lyle is put away to the right. He's a spread and in the slot to the right now Cecil Turner and you have Sayers and Ronnie Bull in the new backfield. Here's somebody going across the line a little early. Gale Sayers runs with the ball flag down on lower place. He sweeps out to the right.
He's at the 40, the 35, we've been bothered just out of the 31 yard line. Now the question is is that penalty against the Bears or against the Green Bay Packers? If it's against the Packers the Bears will probably decline.
And if it's against the Bears, the Packers will accept it just about as happily as they've accepted anything in their lives.
It is offside Packers. We saw the Packers offside but you can't call that until you make sure because it's possible that a motion by the Bear opposite that man on the line may have drawn him across, in which case the onus is on the offensive ball club. They put the lights on here now at Lambeau Field.
Gale Sayers ripping off 21 yards on that play. The play stands up. The Bears have the ball first and 10 to go on the Packer 31 yard line. 10 minutes and 23 seconds to go in this football game. She's all tied up now 10 to 10.
Signal called. Here is a handoff to Piccolo. Head down. By and by as hard as he can ahead. Comes right over Cadeel who tried very hard to block Brown out of the play. Managed to get Brown down on the ground and Piccolo ran over the top of both of them.
And they both have some fleet marks probably in their backs on this play but they're used to that too. He got himself a couple. He advanced to the bottom of the 29 yard line. Up front now for the Green Bay Packers such great names as Willie Davis, Dave Robinson, Henry Jordan, Lionel Alvey.
In the middle there is big Bob Brown. The white backer Nischke. Blanked on the right this side by Leo Icafee who's up on the line of scrimmage. Here's Carter handing off now to Piccolo and Justice Bryant. Took that handoff and started to reverse him.
Don't be flippin' now. You can just see his clean slide in that dirt down there. Loose dirt. And he is down at the 31 yard line. A loss on the play which puts the ball back now where it's third down and almost 11 yards to go for the first down the bottom of the 31 yard line of the Green Bay Packers.
9.24 to go in this football game. The game tied up 10 to 10 and this is heading for a game somewhat similar to the game we had up here last year with Green Bay and the Bears. Let's hope we don't have the same finish because if the game tied 10 to 10 with seconds to go, Chandler kicks a deep field goal.
It's going to be like last week's game too, Jack. At least we have a 10 to 10 game going into the final minutes maybe. I don't know. We've got a lot of time left. 9 minutes to go. Here's a pass over the line going by Cecil Turner on the rather Brian Piccolo out there on the plant and he advanced the ball to the 22 yard line.
A little shy of first down yardage on the third down long yardage effort. Give them nine on the play but they have a little over 10 to go. Now here comes Mack Percival in once more as Mack tries to make his 11th consecutive field goal.
He made one earlier today. 8.30 to go. The clock continues to move here at Lambeau Field in Green Bay with Cotson. I'm Jack Brickhouse along with Irv Cotson and Frank Babcock.
We've got ourselves a real rouser again today. The Brairston Packers, the 99th meeting of these two ball clubs. Mack Percival will attempt to kick one now from the 29 yard line of Green Bay.
Richie Pettibone who was groggy a little while ago is OK now. He will hold the play style. The ball is blocked. The kick is blocked and there's a battle for the ball and it's down by a Green Bay Packer at the 20 yard line.
It's blocked too. And so Green Bay takes the ball. First and 10 to go now on their 20 yard line. And Mack Percival's string is broken. 8.03 to go. Time out. We'll return with more action in just one minute.
Game tied. 10 to 10. We're in the final eight minutes of this action. Here is Bart Starr throwing a sideline pass intended for Anderson. Over his head, incomplete, he was being guarded very closely by Roosevelt Taylor.
And Bart threw the ball right over his head that time. It's very possible in a spot like that that Bart is allowed to throw that ball over the ball and that receiver said deliberately too.
Yes, Jack. Rich Smith did an interesting column on that talking about passers throwing the ball deliberately out of bounds are really guilty, he says, of deliberately grounding the ball.
But of course that's not true in most cases even when they throw the ball out of bounds. There is a receiver in the area and consequently no official when he sees a receiver in the area is going to call it deliberate bounding of the ball.
Here goes, Jack. Second down, 10. Once again, Bart Starr backpedals. He looks, he waits, he waits, he may run. He's smeared. A Radavitz got to him. He waited too long.
As a matter of fact, he finally collided with Boris Gregg, his own tackle who's backed up for pass protection. And then as Bart saw Big Hole there, saw nobody open, so maybe he tried to make a little yardage.
He bumped into his own man and that slowed him up enough so that the loss carries all the way back to the 14 yard line. It now becomes third down. Here's Bart Starr.
Here's the kind of a situation that has made Bart Starr, Bart Starr. Third down and 16 to go. Now the Bears need to hold here, but this guy is so good at picking the right player and the right play for this particular long yardage type pass.
Let's see what he comes up with now. He sends...
...Roddy James who just came in, way out to the left. Brought it to the left now is Dale. Here he is looking left, now right, now left. Backed up to the goal line. He's almost at the end zone. He starts to run. He knocks the arm. He's with the 20, the 25. He is knocked out of bounds. He is knocked out of bounds at about the 29 yard line.
The Bears had real good pass protection going that time and Bart Starr was back up all the way where he was one foot in the end zone. Made it almost back to first down yardage. Just going to be very, very close.
And Starr incidentally was shaken up a little on the play and so was one of the Bears who bumped him out of bounds.
Oh boy, if he does this again. Of course the Bears are claimed to have only had 10 men on the field in that last one that last year, although we haven't been sure. And here's the kick. He gets it high. Bear catch called for. Hang on to it, kid. And he does.
It's hung on to with the 35 yard line to the Bears by Cecil Turner. 35 yard. That bump was no fake bargain. That now was seven seconds to go in the football game. The game all tied up 10 to 10. The Bears have the ball first and 10 to go and they're on 35 yard line.
And here's the final. Baltimore 26 to New York. Nothing. Hang on to your seat. Hang on to your hat to fasten your seat belt. This one is liable to beat something. Six minutes and 55 seconds.
Game tied 10 to 10. Here's Carter and the handoff to Gale Sayers. Picks his way. Finds a little hole. Moves up to the 40 yard line. So number 40 carries to the 40. He's got five, maybe six yards on the play.
Turner in the slot to the left. You have Bullensayers in the new smack field for the Bears. Carter hands off to Sayers. He sweeps off to the right side. But he can't. Wait a minute. A combo. And a pick up by a Packer. It's picked up by Adderley. He's stuck from behind.
14 yard line by Turner. Gale Sayers tackles as he's got up to the right side. Balls down. Looses the ball. Stacked by Herb Adderley. And the Packers have a chance to go out in front now. With that ball returned all the way to the Bears. 14 yard line by Herb Adderley.
Oh brother, what a heartbreaking development for Bear fans. 557 to go in this game. The ball on the 14 yard line. First and 10 now for the Green Bay Packers. And this is a made order situation for Bob Star.
The Bears defense has a human job cut out for it now. They're all lined up. First and 10 to go on the Bear 14. Here is a handoff to Anderson. He goes out to the right side. Blowed up by Joe Taylor and knocked down by Baphon and Buccus. He got one, maybe two on the play.
Here's the snap star handing off again to Anderson. He sweeps around the left side. He tries to turn the corner and he's knocked down. Off balance by Joe Taylor. Moving up from the secondary. Hardly any gain on the play. Possibly a yard. Possibly nothing. Let's see where they decide to spot the ball.
They bring it up to the sidelines. He actually lost a little on the play. It's going to be third down now as the Bear defense continues to try to hold these Green Bay Packers. Willie Holman racing it to the sidelines. He has replaced Lloyd Phillips for the Bears. Third down for the pack.
Just about eight yards to go for a first down. Here's the signal. The snap. The handoff to Anderson. He's going to throw a left handed pass maybe. He may have to run with it. Here's Holman. He's got him down at the 16 yard line.
Chuck Merceen is in there. He is trying to tempt a field goal. The kick will come from just about the 22 yard line with three minutes and 43 seconds showing on the clock.
Bartzog will hold the play down. The kick is in the air. Wait a minute. Oh good. Oh good. And the Bears take over on the 20 yard line. Oh brother. Whoo. Next time you come bar, drink my stomach. And here to score is 10-10 in what is shaping up as another one of those flip hanging finishes Jack.
And the slider to the right. He spreads Gary Wilde out there as a flanker. Austin Denny is a tight left end. Here's the handoff to Sayers. He cuts inside Cadille and he spins away from a couple of men. A fumble. Battle for the ball at the 25 yard line. The Bears recover.
Game all tied 10-10. Out of the huddle they come. Jerry Lyle is way here to the left. It's a flanker left now. Cecil Turner. Austin Denny a tight right end on this play. They've reversed from the last play. Here's the handoff to Sayers again. No hole so he makes his own.
He moves to the side and he gets up to the 30 yard line. It's going to be close to a first down. He may have made it all the way for a first down yardie. Third down and well they're officially going to call it one but I'll tell you right now it can't be more than two or three inches because the nose of that ball is almost at the 30 yard line.
They started out on a touchback from the 20. Felicia Carter punches over trying to get two or three inches for a first down. That's what it is. Virgil Carter head down, bores in and it looks like he's made his first down yardie to all right.
Virgil Carter made him throw a yard on the play and that was a very precious yard. One of the most important single yards we'll have all afternoon maybe. Two minutes to go in the game to score. The Bears 10, the Packers 10 and we'll be back with more action in just a minute.
The ball deepened up at least the next couple of minutes so that we can come up with another one of those first of all miracles in the final seconds. Let's see what he does. First and 10 for the Bears. The ball is on their own 31. Here's Virgil Carter rolling up to the right. Blocked by Cadil and Wotaka. Rolls around the right side. Spikes away from Robinson. He's at the 40. He's in the way and gets up to the 45 yard line.
Virgil Carter coming up with a very fine movement against Robinson, the linebacker, one of the surest tacklers in the game of football. Now it is first and 10 for the Bears on their own 45 yard line. They line up, no huddles. Here's the pass.
A sideline pass that was deflected and unfortunately it was incomplete. Dave Robinson deflecting it. Almost intercepting it from here. Wouldn't that have been something if the guys were to deliver it out of our pass trying to stop the clock. Wouldn't that have been something if that would have been intercepted.
Well as I've said we've had everything else happen here today. First and 10 for the Bears. Make that second and 10 for the Bears. And here's the hand off the fair. Squeaks around the right side. He doesn't have much real estate and he goes out of bounds as he tackles at the knees by Robinson. Advancing the ball to the 47, possibly the 48 yard line.
But you know he can walk that tightrope as well as anybody if he gets an opening. It's hard to over emphasize the importance of this particular play. Third down a long yard he's now. Third down an ace. They've got to get eight yards here in order to keep possession of that football.
Here's the snap. Farter back. And the ball is batted up a knee as he starts forward with it. It'll probably be ruled an incomplete pass but the rush was on. He was met by Jordan, by Willie Davis who got through there. Lyle Aldrich crashed in and Doded Brown. They all got on him as a matter of fact Brown obscured them from sight the way he draped over him.
And that goes then as. Wait a minute they're not ruling that an incomplete pass. They are ruling that a play. And the ball is down at the 40 yard line. They are and the officials are conferring and one of the officials are are you sure that's not an incomplete pass?
He's not an emotion but apparently apparently now the Bears are going to have to punt the football. With one pin to go John Kilgore standing on his 25 yard line. He'll kick from about the 29. And there's the pass to center. He gets the kick away.
A hand over and it's just a fair punt but it takes a fair bounce. Takes a bounce on the deep man at the 15 yard line but he hangs on to it. Willie Wood. He was hit by Major Hazelden coming down very fast. Tried to deflect the ball and just lodged it from Willie Wood's grip.
The Packers fall now with 56 seconds to go. 45 yards net from Scrimmage. It was not exactly a pitcher but punt but it got the job he had. So now the Packers are the ones who are if anything in the driver's seat in the game. Let's see what Bod Star does.
How about a nice interception fellas. Here's Star throwing up the sideline. Oh brother Joe Taylor nearly intercepted that one. He made a dive in front of Carroll Dale at the sideline. 48 seconds to go in the game.
He's all tied up here now. 10 to 10. The Bears and the Packers. Head bumping like crazy today. Rock them and sock them. Here's 6 brawling. And believe me we've got ourselves a kind of a contest that will be talked about for a long time no matter how it comes out. Number 99 in the series. That means when they get back in Wrigley Field later on it's going to be number 100 in this great historic series.
This legendary series in the annals of sport in our great country. The ball is on the 15 yard line. The Packers are 85 yards away from the bare goal. Bob Skromsky in their left tackle. Being sized up now by John Johnson and by Phillips who want to make a good rush.
And here is the rush now as Bob Skromsky moves back he avoids the Bradovich. He throws a wobbly pass incomplete. The target was Elijah Fitz just over the line at the 21 yard line. One of those short yardage passes hoping that Elijah could rip off enough gain to get down there into bear territory.
And this next play is going to be intensely significant because if they don't make good yardage on this play on third down and tenth the Bears can still get that football because the Packers it would be reasonably safe to say I think if anything is reasonably safe to say in this game would have to punt.
And the Bears would still get their hands on the football once more. Who knows it could be a lousy punt. We've had a couple of those today too. Deer Star dropping back. Hang on there boys don't let him complete this one. It is complete and out of bounds at the 24 yard line.
What he was out about when he caught the ball. There's a break for the Bears. That puts the ball back on the 15 yard line. 38 seconds to go in this game. Now let's don't have anything silly like roughing a kicker on this one boys but if you want to block it it's all right with Cup and me.
Donnie Anderson dropping back to about the goal line. Bill kick about the four and dropping back for the Chicago Bears our players that Cecil can't rise there's a kick he gets it away.
It comes up here and it's caught down at the Green Bay Packers 44 yard line. 32 seconds to go in this game. The game is tied 10 to 10. Now here's the story. The Bears are entitled to a free kick. A fair kick.
Here's the rule. After a five point on the next play here's a free kick for a field goal. Here's the book watch it. Hit hit.
The rule in the book. There's a rule in the book that says after a fair kick is called for after a punt on the ensuing play a team is entitled to a free kick either by place kick or by tee up or rather by place down or by drop kick.
But what happened there the Bears called for the right to employ that particular rule. Mack Percival had to be given a 10 yard restraining wall a free area of 10 yards.
Nobody could rush him. The rule called for the Chicago Bears to be allowed to kick that ball as a free kick.
And if that ball went between the goalpost it was going to be three points down. The Bears have made that kick 43 yards and they lead 13 to 10 in this game with 23 seconds to go.
I'm telling you we have had ourselves some football the last couple of weeks in this United States of America. If you're around the Chicago Bears Percival will kick off now for the Bears.
There's a pack of crowd that's absolutely stunned and I have a feeling about 45000 people don't understand that rule. Here's the kickoff. It comes down here to Travis Williams at the five. He's at the 10, the 20, 25.
He's met hard by Mike Riley and by Ralph Keurig. And he is hit and knocked down by them and by Prewald at the 27 yard line. 21 seconds to go. 21 seconds showing on the clock and I'm going to tell you something. If you think this game is going to be talked about for a while.
And back goes Star now. He's going to go for the bound. He's still dangerous. He throws a sideline pass, hit juggle and then grabbed by Elijah Pitts who's tackled inbound. Tackled inbound by Doug LaFont and with 13 seconds to go now at the 29 yard line of Green Bay.
The Green Bay Packers on the football and they grabbed themselves one of the few remaining timeouts they own. Timeout has been called by the Green Bay Packers and brothers of the Bears hang on to this football game I guarantee you. The first one is on me tonight.
All right. But our way to the left is James this time. There's Star looking and he says go on upfield boys and he hits himself down there and the ball is fumbled. However the play has been whiskled dead as the Packers fall at the 37, 38 yard line of Green Bay.
And the ball tackled the man. The Bears have what was called a prevent defense right now. In other words preventing us from bound. Five seconds to go this football game. The football game is all over. The Bears 13 to Packers 10 in one of the most wild finishes.
One of the most spectacular games. I didn't think anything could top last week but believe me for suspense and for absolute startling shocking dramatic turn of events this ball game today has got to go in the books as one of the greatest in this entire series.
The final score the Chicago Bears 13 the Green Bay Packers 10 as they reverse the score of the two games of the two teams that they played up here last year at this time couple have a read. Wrap in just a moment. The final score the Bears 13 Green Bay 10.