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Calhoun, using his job at the Press-Gazette, [9] wrote a few articles inviting potential football players to attend a meeting to discuss the formation of a local football team. [10] The Green Bay Packers were officially organized on August 11, 1919, in the Press-Gazette office. [11]
The newspaper was founded as the Green Bay Gazette in 1866 as a weekly paper, becoming a daily newspaper in 1871. The Green Bay Gazette merged with its major competitor, the Green Bay Free Press in 1915, assuming its current title. The newspaper was purchased by Gannett in March 1980. [2]
Remmel was born in Shawano, Wisconsin, a small city about 30 miles (48 km) outside Green Bay. He began writing as a freshman at Shawano High School [4] and went to his first Packers game on September 24, 1944. [5] On October 7, 1945, Remmel started covering the Green Bay Packers as a sportswriter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. [6]
Andrew Blair Turnbull (February 26, 1884 – October 17, 1960), was a businessman and American football executive. Turnbull founded and owned the Green Bay Press-Gazette and was the first president of the Green Bay Football Corporation (now called Green Bay Packers, Inc.), the non-profit organization that owns the Green Bay Packers.
His youngest brother, Victor Ivan Minahan, was a lawyer and editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Appleton Post-Crescent. [15] On December 28, 1880, Robert Minahan married Ellen "Nellie" Mulcahy, who he had met while living in Calumet County. They had one son together, Eben Roger Minahan.
Green Bay Packers (AA/FO) Burton F. Gustafson (November 30, 1925 – October 22, 2022) was an American athlete and sports coach. After attending Northern Michigan University (NMU) where he was a three-sport star, he coached several high school football , basketball , and track and field teams.
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The Green Bay News-Chronicle (originally known as the Green Bay Daily News) was a daily newspaper published in Green Bay, Wisconsin from 1972 to 2005. The paper was owned and operated by Denmark, Wisconsin-based Brown County Publishing Company during much of its existence, and competed with the larger and more established Green Bay Press-Gazette.