Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Masterminded by Quarterback Sid Luckman (Columbia '39), last year's Bears made the hoary T offense work like magic. This year, not quite satisfied with a team that could pile up the biggest score in the annals of the National Football League, Owner-Coach George Halas has added to his squad Halfback Hugh Gallarneau and Fullback Norman Standlee, 1940 All-Americans who learned how to make the T stand for touchdowns under Coach Clark Shaughnessy at Stanford...
...Bears, last year's national professional football champions: a night game (for charity); against a team of college All-Stars poll-picked from the recent graduates of college football; 37-to-13; before a crowd of 98,200; at Soldier Field, Chicago. The forward passing of Quarterback Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, was responsible for three of the Bears' five touchdowns...
...seven in the second. Radio fans, tuning in at half time, thought they were listening to a basketball game - or an Atlantic City auction. By sixes and sevens, the score jumped: "35, 41, 47, no 48, 54." Those who actually saw the game were even more dumfounded. With Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, calling the plays with the genius of a clairvoyant, the Bears were a perfect football machine. By the end of the third quarter, the game had become an undignified rout. At the end of the last quarter, it was a massacre...