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The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team that has played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921. The team was founded in 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun , and for the next two years played against local teams in Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan .
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919, [1] by former high-school football rivals Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. [27] Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company , a meat packing company . [ 28 ]
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [1] The Packers were founded in 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun; for the first two years the team competed against local teams based in cities around the Wisconsin and Michigan area.
Green Bay Packers, Inc. is the publicly held nonprofit corporation that owns the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers football franchise, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The corporation was established in 1923 as the Green Bay Football Corporation , and received its current legal name in 1935.
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, ... founded in Green Bay in 1901, ... Green Bay Packers: American Football: 1919 [91]
Lambeau, along with his friend and fellow Green Bay, Wisconsin, native George Whitney Calhoun, founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919. He served as team captain in the team's first year before becoming player-coach in 1920. As a player, Lambeau lined up as a halfback, which in the early years of the NFL was the premier position. He was the team ...
On August 11, local athletes came together in the editorial room at the Press-Gazette building and formed the team that would become the Green Bay Packers. [3] While the Packer organization recognizes 1919 as the year this town team was founded, a number of sources show that the 1919 team succeeded teams organized on an annual basis since 1896.
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.