2. On September 17, 1920, Halas couldn't afford to have a football team. Staley offered him $5,000 and told him to move to Chicago and in return for Halas' to keep his name for one more year.When Halas moved his team to Chicago he leased Wrigley Field from the owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, Bill Veeck. So starting in 1922, the Bears were officially renamed and born. The Bears was an ideal name coming from the idea of the Cubs baseball field. (1)
3. For Halas' first ten years of coaching, he wasn't just a coach but also a player. Within those ten years, George's team won 321 times, tied 31 times, and lost 141 times. Halas retired 4 times as being a Bears coach. He retired on the 1929, 1942 (due to the fact that he participated in the World War II), 1955, and at age 73. Every time he went back to coach, he was a new Halas. After Halas finally retired from being a coach for the Bears in 1968, he didn't completely stop being associated with football. He stayed being a consultant for the team. (1)
4. George Halas was a larger-than-life football legend as well as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a player and a football coach. In December 17, 2011, Halas was honored in his old high school, Crane Technical High School, by the Hall of Fame and the Allstate insurance. (2)
5. Mark LaNeve, the Allstate executive vice president, said that, "to be part of a program that brings the prestige and tradition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to communities like Chicago is an honor for Allstate, our agents and employees" (Halas remembered at Chicago high school). George Halas was and still is, a great inspiration for the Chicago Bears and the NFL. (2)
6. Halas was known as "Papa Bear" because of his association with the Chicago Bears. Halas coached the Bears for 40 seasons, in which the Chicago Bears won six NFL championships, 324 wins and 318 season victories. Being a coach, Halas was a great motivator and leader. Because of George the Bears have the most amount of player in the Professional Football Hall of Fame. (2)
7. George was the founder, owner, and coach of the Chicago Bears. He was said to be "Mr. Everything" of Professional Football. He was typically associated with the Bears since 1920 till a couple of years before he died on October 31, 1983, 88 years of age. He represented the Bears, originally known as the Decatur Staleys, at the NFL's organizational meeting. (3)
8. George was first in many things associated with football. He was first to hold practice sessions that took place every day, the first to use films taken of the opponents' games (used for study), the first to make meetings for brainstorming tours and the first to have his football team be broadcasting on radio. (3)
9. He didn't tolerate with misbehavior, laziness or insubordination. He expected his team to work to their fullest and punish their opponents physically. While Halas was the Bears' coach, they were known as the "Monsters of the Midway" because they had won 6 championship leagues. (6)
10. George halas first got involved in football when he went to school at the University of Illinois. He began to participate in football then, and finally stopped being associated with coaching it on 1968 when he was 73 years old, 10 years before he passed away. (4)
11. Halas set then stages for now-a-days football offenses by including a man-in-motion to the classic, and well know, T Formation. Halas had gotten this idea from Clark Shaughnessy, an american football coach. This offense formation was used to become a power house. The Bears beat the Washington Redskins in 1940, by using the T Formation, and won 73-0, which is the greatest victory in league history today. (4)
12. Halas played on his team till 1929. The Chicago Bears' 324 wins stayed as being a record till 1963. It is also said that they were named the Bears because football players are larger than baseball players. George Halas was the oldest coach in all of league history. (10)
13. George Halas was born in Pilsen to Bohemian parents. He was born on February 2, 1895 and was taught self-discipline, frugality and business smarts by his family. In U of C he didn't just play football but also baseball and basketball. He was mostly into baseball at first but while being on the Yankees team he severely injured his hip and his baseball career ended. He promised his mother that he was done with sports for the rest of his life. He didn't keep his promise and snuck off on the weekends to play football in club teams. (5)
14. Halas was recommended by contacts of Illinois. He was based on the reputation organized by the military service sports teams. That was when in 1920, he received the call from Staley Starch Works. Staley's company wanted Halas to relocate himself to Illinois so that he could work for the company and organize, as well as coach football and baseball teams. He took the offer. (5)
15. Staley typically gave Halas the $5,000 to get his team started in Chicago. After the season that George promised (keeping the team's name, Staley Decaturs , the Staleys were renamed to the Bears as in honor of the Cubs. (5)
16. Halas was not alone when he first moved to Chicago with his team. He had a partner named DUtch Sternamen. He helped George come up with the name for the Bears. Before the NFL was called the NFL it was called the American Professorial Football Association, APFA. After renaming the Bears, he came up with the idea of naming the APFA, N FL and other owners agreed with him. (6)
17. After Halas retired from being a player for the Bears, he hired Ralph Jones as the Bears' coach for 3 seasons. They lost lots of money because of the depression years. Hence, George took over again in 1933. He said, "I came cheap." (6)
18. When Halas isn't on the field he is a very "quiet and soft-spoken" person, but when he's on the field he is very violent. He is considered to be a hero. When he isn't engrossed with the Bears, he acted like a president of a small-town banker (7)
19. When Halas was a player, he used to kick field goals,squirm away from tacklers and throw blocks. And while he was being coach he would always be running back and up the sidelines and yelling at officials. Chicago Bears fans loved to watch him play and coach. There's even less booing when George Halas plays and coaches. (7)
20. "He was a lot tougher before," Luckman says. "But don't get me wrong. I don't think there's a Bear who ever played for Halas who doesn't have the deepest respect and admiration for him. You knew he would stick by you. He was like a father to me. I can truthfully say that all I am today I owe to George Halas and the Bears." Luckman ended up being a successful Chicago businessman. (7)
21. Halas was very strict and full od discipline in the outside but in thee inside he had warmth seeping though. He even made count in his team. He wanted a certin weight for all of the team members. He explained that, "it's like handicapping a horse. A 2-pound up in weight means difference in speed. I figure five extra pounds on a 190-pound halfback is the difference between a good and a great player." (8)
22. In general while Halas was coaching the Bears, they won 324 victories. He was the owner of the Chicago Bears for over 60 years. He coached them more than forty years. Halas also played on the team for ten years. (9)
23. Halas' parents' names were Frank and Barbara Halas. His parents immigrated to Pilsen in the 1880's and that is how he ended up being born in Pilsen. It's a coincidence how on the year Halas was born, 1895, was the year the first professional football game took action in history. (9)
24. Halas may have seemed very tough, enthusiastic and bossy but when he was in college he was almost always over powered by people larger than him. He was six feet tall and 170 pounds. His college coaches had to always be aware of his shortcomings since he has broken his jaw and a leg during his sophomore and junior years. (9)
25. George won lots of awards about football. He won the American Professional Football Association Championship in 1921. He won the first National League title game in 1933. In 1940-1941, he won the NFL Championship. In 1963, he was named as the NFL Coach of the Year and added to Pro Football Hall of Fame and on 1965, he was named the NFL Coach of the Year again. Finally in 1997, a stamp was issued in the honor for Halas' retirement. In 1999 the Sporting News named Halas to be one of "The Most Powerful People In Sports For The 20th Century." He will forever be known as "Papa Bear" (8)
26. Halas and Minnie Bushing got married on February 18, 1922. Minnie passed away after 44 years of marriage on 1966 on Valentine's Day. They had 2 children, George S Halas Jr. and Virginia Marion McCaskey. They both became involved with the football league in their adulthood. (8)
27. The Chicago Bears team officially began on 1920 named as the Decatur Staleys. They were sponsored by the A.E. Staley Company, which is a starch manufacturer. The Staleys first recruited college players, like Halas, and employees to help make the American Pro Football Association, became NFL in 1922. (11)
28. In 1921, which was the one of the years of the depression, a business recession cut the starch profits. That was when and why Staley told Halas to go to Chicago along with his team. (11)
29. On 1925, Halas signed the University of Illinois star senior Harold “Red” Grange after the college football season had finished. Both the Grange and the Bears played the Chicago Cardinals. The score was a tie and it had drawn 36,000 people, the largest amount of people the league had drawn. The Bears played eight games in less than 2 weeks. They played in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, St. Louis Washington, Detroit, and Boston. When the Bears played against the Giants in New York City, they drew 73,000 people. After then, the Bears played another nine games towards the South and West, including the game at Los Angeles Coliseum, which drew 75,000 people. (11)
30. Halas' birth was and is very important to football. He played an important role in the success of the Bears and the NFL in general. His signing on Red Grange attracted more an attention of more than 75,000 people to the league. Coaching wasn't all he did. He also introduced different things to the game as announcement systems, radio broadcasts that were public and he was one of the Pro Football Hall of Fame members. (12)
31. It is said that George even took care of selling the game day tickets. When people asked him why he quit or retired from coaching, he would respond saying that he "was too slow to run up and down the sidelines to chew out the refs". He was known as the NFL foulest mouth.(13)
32. Halas was the first coach ever to put assistant coaches to keep a perspective watch during the game. He was known to be generous because once he helped send one of his players to dental college. When his player, Brian Piccolo, came back from his college years, he was diagnosed with cancer. George paid th entire medical expenses. Halas himself had cancer. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but he chose to keep it a secret. (13)
33. George Halas new his death was near, so right before he passed away he bought a bottle of champagne and attached a note that said "TO MIKE, FOR WINNING THE SUPER BOWL." in 1985, when George finally died, the Bears gave Mike Ditka, the last coach Halas hired, the champagne bottle and he cried in the memory of "Papa Bear". (13)
34. Halas was also the first coach to have assistant coaches in press boxes and the first coach to motion athletes before the plays started. He was strict in disciplinary and maintained complete control over his team and their operations. (22)
35. Halas is known as the "Father of Football" because football wouldn't be what it is today without any of this contributions. The NFC Championship trophy has his name. The sleeves of the Bears jerseys have the initials of "GHS", which stand for George Staley Halas. Today, the Bears training facility is named the Halas Hall in the memory of Halas. (22)
3. For Halas' first ten years of coaching, he wasn't just a coach but also a player. Within those ten years, George's team won 321 times, tied 31 times, and lost 141 times. Halas retired 4 times as being a Bears coach. He retired on the 1929, 1942 (due to the fact that he participated in the World War II), 1955, and at age 73. Every time he went back to coach, he was a new Halas. After Halas finally retired from being a coach for the Bears in 1968, he didn't completely stop being associated with football. He stayed being a consultant for the team. (1)
4. George Halas was a larger-than-life football legend as well as a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a player and a football coach. In December 17, 2011, Halas was honored in his old high school, Crane Technical High School, by the Hall of Fame and the Allstate insurance. (2)
5. Mark LaNeve, the Allstate executive vice president, said that, "to be part of a program that brings the prestige and tradition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to communities like Chicago is an honor for Allstate, our agents and employees" (Halas remembered at Chicago high school). George Halas was and still is, a great inspiration for the Chicago Bears and the NFL. (2)
6. Halas was known as "Papa Bear" because of his association with the Chicago Bears. Halas coached the Bears for 40 seasons, in which the Chicago Bears won six NFL championships, 324 wins and 318 season victories. Being a coach, Halas was a great motivator and leader. Because of George the Bears have the most amount of player in the Professional Football Hall of Fame. (2)
7. George was the founder, owner, and coach of the Chicago Bears. He was said to be "Mr. Everything" of Professional Football. He was typically associated with the Bears since 1920 till a couple of years before he died on October 31, 1983, 88 years of age. He represented the Bears, originally known as the Decatur Staleys, at the NFL's organizational meeting. (3)
8. George was first in many things associated with football. He was first to hold practice sessions that took place every day, the first to use films taken of the opponents' games (used for study), the first to make meetings for brainstorming tours and the first to have his football team be broadcasting on radio. (3)
9. He didn't tolerate with misbehavior, laziness or insubordination. He expected his team to work to their fullest and punish their opponents physically. While Halas was the Bears' coach, they were known as the "Monsters of the Midway" because they had won 6 championship leagues. (6)
10. George halas first got involved in football when he went to school at the University of Illinois. He began to participate in football then, and finally stopped being associated with coaching it on 1968 when he was 73 years old, 10 years before he passed away. (4)
11. Halas set then stages for now-a-days football offenses by including a man-in-motion to the classic, and well know, T Formation. Halas had gotten this idea from Clark Shaughnessy, an american football coach. This offense formation was used to become a power house. The Bears beat the Washington Redskins in 1940, by using the T Formation, and won 73-0, which is the greatest victory in league history today. (4)
12. Halas played on his team till 1929. The Chicago Bears' 324 wins stayed as being a record till 1963. It is also said that they were named the Bears because football players are larger than baseball players. George Halas was the oldest coach in all of league history. (10)
13. George Halas was born in Pilsen to Bohemian parents. He was born on February 2, 1895 and was taught self-discipline, frugality and business smarts by his family. In U of C he didn't just play football but also baseball and basketball. He was mostly into baseball at first but while being on the Yankees team he severely injured his hip and his baseball career ended. He promised his mother that he was done with sports for the rest of his life. He didn't keep his promise and snuck off on the weekends to play football in club teams. (5)
14. Halas was recommended by contacts of Illinois. He was based on the reputation organized by the military service sports teams. That was when in 1920, he received the call from Staley Starch Works. Staley's company wanted Halas to relocate himself to Illinois so that he could work for the company and organize, as well as coach football and baseball teams. He took the offer. (5)
15. Staley typically gave Halas the $5,000 to get his team started in Chicago. After the season that George promised (keeping the team's name, Staley Decaturs , the Staleys were renamed to the Bears as in honor of the Cubs. (5)
16. Halas was not alone when he first moved to Chicago with his team. He had a partner named DUtch Sternamen. He helped George come up with the name for the Bears. Before the NFL was called the NFL it was called the American Professorial Football Association, APFA. After renaming the Bears, he came up with the idea of naming the APFA, N FL and other owners agreed with him. (6)
17. After Halas retired from being a player for the Bears, he hired Ralph Jones as the Bears' coach for 3 seasons. They lost lots of money because of the depression years. Hence, George took over again in 1933. He said, "I came cheap." (6)
18. When Halas isn't on the field he is a very "quiet and soft-spoken" person, but when he's on the field he is very violent. He is considered to be a hero. When he isn't engrossed with the Bears, he acted like a president of a small-town banker (7)
19. When Halas was a player, he used to kick field goals,squirm away from tacklers and throw blocks. And while he was being coach he would always be running back and up the sidelines and yelling at officials. Chicago Bears fans loved to watch him play and coach. There's even less booing when George Halas plays and coaches. (7)
20. "He was a lot tougher before," Luckman says. "But don't get me wrong. I don't think there's a Bear who ever played for Halas who doesn't have the deepest respect and admiration for him. You knew he would stick by you. He was like a father to me. I can truthfully say that all I am today I owe to George Halas and the Bears." Luckman ended up being a successful Chicago businessman. (7)
21. Halas was very strict and full od discipline in the outside but in thee inside he had warmth seeping though. He even made count in his team. He wanted a certin weight for all of the team members. He explained that, "it's like handicapping a horse. A 2-pound up in weight means difference in speed. I figure five extra pounds on a 190-pound halfback is the difference between a good and a great player." (8)
22. In general while Halas was coaching the Bears, they won 324 victories. He was the owner of the Chicago Bears for over 60 years. He coached them more than forty years. Halas also played on the team for ten years. (9)
23. Halas' parents' names were Frank and Barbara Halas. His parents immigrated to Pilsen in the 1880's and that is how he ended up being born in Pilsen. It's a coincidence how on the year Halas was born, 1895, was the year the first professional football game took action in history. (9)
24. Halas may have seemed very tough, enthusiastic and bossy but when he was in college he was almost always over powered by people larger than him. He was six feet tall and 170 pounds. His college coaches had to always be aware of his shortcomings since he has broken his jaw and a leg during his sophomore and junior years. (9)
25. George won lots of awards about football. He won the American Professional Football Association Championship in 1921. He won the first National League title game in 1933. In 1940-1941, he won the NFL Championship. In 1963, he was named as the NFL Coach of the Year and added to Pro Football Hall of Fame and on 1965, he was named the NFL Coach of the Year again. Finally in 1997, a stamp was issued in the honor for Halas' retirement. In 1999 the Sporting News named Halas to be one of "The Most Powerful People In Sports For The 20th Century." He will forever be known as "Papa Bear" (8)
26. Halas and Minnie Bushing got married on February 18, 1922. Minnie passed away after 44 years of marriage on 1966 on Valentine's Day. They had 2 children, George S Halas Jr. and Virginia Marion McCaskey. They both became involved with the football league in their adulthood. (8)
27. The Chicago Bears team officially began on 1920 named as the Decatur Staleys. They were sponsored by the A.E. Staley Company, which is a starch manufacturer. The Staleys first recruited college players, like Halas, and employees to help make the American Pro Football Association, became NFL in 1922. (11)
28. In 1921, which was the one of the years of the depression, a business recession cut the starch profits. That was when and why Staley told Halas to go to Chicago along with his team. (11)
29. On 1925, Halas signed the University of Illinois star senior Harold “Red” Grange after the college football season had finished. Both the Grange and the Bears played the Chicago Cardinals. The score was a tie and it had drawn 36,000 people, the largest amount of people the league had drawn. The Bears played eight games in less than 2 weeks. They played in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, St. Louis Washington, Detroit, and Boston. When the Bears played against the Giants in New York City, they drew 73,000 people. After then, the Bears played another nine games towards the South and West, including the game at Los Angeles Coliseum, which drew 75,000 people. (11)
30. Halas' birth was and is very important to football. He played an important role in the success of the Bears and the NFL in general. His signing on Red Grange attracted more an attention of more than 75,000 people to the league. Coaching wasn't all he did. He also introduced different things to the game as announcement systems, radio broadcasts that were public and he was one of the Pro Football Hall of Fame members. (12)
31. It is said that George even took care of selling the game day tickets. When people asked him why he quit or retired from coaching, he would respond saying that he "was too slow to run up and down the sidelines to chew out the refs". He was known as the NFL foulest mouth.(13)
32. Halas was the first coach ever to put assistant coaches to keep a perspective watch during the game. He was known to be generous because once he helped send one of his players to dental college. When his player, Brian Piccolo, came back from his college years, he was diagnosed with cancer. George paid th entire medical expenses. Halas himself had cancer. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer but he chose to keep it a secret. (13)
33. George Halas new his death was near, so right before he passed away he bought a bottle of champagne and attached a note that said "TO MIKE, FOR WINNING THE SUPER BOWL." in 1985, when George finally died, the Bears gave Mike Ditka, the last coach Halas hired, the champagne bottle and he cried in the memory of "Papa Bear". (13)
34. Halas was also the first coach to have assistant coaches in press boxes and the first coach to motion athletes before the plays started. He was strict in disciplinary and maintained complete control over his team and their operations. (22)
35. Halas is known as the "Father of Football" because football wouldn't be what it is today without any of this contributions. The NFC Championship trophy has his name. The sleeves of the Bears jerseys have the initials of "GHS", which stand for George Staley Halas. Today, the Bears training facility is named the Halas Hall in the memory of Halas. (22)
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