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...Chicago Bears, masterminded by Quarterback Sid Luckman, are the most powerful all-around team in the history of professional football. But the Green Bay Packers have at left end a streak of lightning named Don Hutson. Hutson, onetime Alabama star who looks more like a fancy figure-skater than a footballer, has been the Bears' nemesis ever since he joined the Packers...
That year, on his very first play as a professional, Hutson faked big Bear Beattie Feathers out of his way, caught a 60-yd. pass and scooted for a touchdown that beat the Bears, 7-to-0. Later in his rookie year, he trapped the Bears again with two sensational touchdown passes in the last three minutes of play. Since then-though the Bears' strategists have lain awake nights trying to figure out ways to stop him-the Alabama Flash, pussyfooted and sure-fingered, has robbed the mighty Bears of at least two more Western Division titles...
Accomplice in Hutson's recent robberies has been red-headed left halfback Cecil Isbell (Purdue '38), one of the slickest passers in the game. Since they teamed up. Isbell-to-Hutson has become to football what Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance once was to baseball. This season, completing 117 passes in 206 attempts (for a gain of nearly a mile), Green Bay's Isbell has put Washington's "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh in the shade...
...Bears have won the National League championship four times. Last week no team looked capable of stopping the Dream Team from making it five. In the Western Division of the league, the Bears' only real opposition is Wisconsin's Green Bay Packers, boasting Cecil Isbell and Don Hutson, the best passing pair in pro football (last week against the Brooklyn Dodgers they completed eight passes for a gain of 113 yards). The Packers have won four games and lost...
...weeks' team play behind them, might humble the mighty Packers, five-time professional champions and as smooth a machine as football has ever produced. But the next moment the boys from Green Bay (Wis.) began their famed shenanigans. Paced by Cecil Isbell, onetime star of Purdue, and Don Hutson, pass-catching nonpareil, they gave the All-Stars a lesson in air maneuvers. Before the final whistle, the professional champions had scored six touchdowns-five of them by dazzling 30-, 40-, 50-yard forward passes. Just to show the Packers' versatility, Packer Ernie Smith kicked a 34-yard field...