NFL 1940

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1940 NFL season
Regular season
season 1940
East Champions Washington Redskins
West Champions Chicago Bears
Championship game
NFL Champion Chicago Bears
NFL season
 <1939 1941> 

The 1940 NFL season was the National Football League's 21st season . The Chicago Bears emerged as the winner of this season .

Changes

Named to the 1940 season Art Rooney , the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh Steelers to. In December 1940, he sold the franchise to Alexis Thompson and acquired half of the Philadelphia Eagles himself . Before the start of the next season, Rooney and Thompson swapped the venues and NFL rights of the two teams. Thus from 1941 onwards the Eagles became the Steelers and the Steelers became the Eagles.

Regular season

Eastern Division
team S. N U SQ P + P-
Washington Redskins 9 2 0 .818 245 142
Brooklyn Dodgers 8th 3 0 .727 186 120
New York Giants 6th 4th 1 .600 131 133
Pittsburgh Steelers 2 7th 2 .222 60 178
Philadelphia Eagles 1 10 0 .091 111 211
Western Division
team S. N U SQ P + P-
Chicago Bears 8th 3 0 .727 238 152
Green Bay Packers 6th 4th 1 .600 238 155
Detroit Lions 5 5 1 .500 138 153
Cleveland Rams 4th 6th 1 .400 171 191
Chicago Cardinals 2 7th 2 .222 139 222

S = wins N = defeats U = draws P + = points scored P- = points against yourself

NFL Championship Game

The Championship Game took place on December 8, 1940 . The Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC in front of 36,034 spectators with a record 73-0.

1 2 3 4th total
Washington Redskins 0 0 0 0 0
Chicago Bears 21st 7th 26th 19th 73

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speaking of Ownership, When Was the Last Time the Rooneys Did NOT Own the Pittsburgh Steelers? Retrieved December 11, 2016 .