The "Steagles" is the popular nickname for the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles, during the 1943 season. The teams were forced to merge because both had lost so many players to military service during World War II.

Officially the team was known simply as the Eagles without any city designation.[1] The merged team was referred to at the time as the Eagles-Steelers[2], Steelers-Eagles[3], Phil-Pitt[4] or as the Pennsylvania combine.[5] The league's official record book refers to the team as "Phil-Pitt Combine".[6] But the unofficial "Steagles", despite never being registered by the NFL, has become the most enduring moniker.[7]

The prospect of a unified Pittsburgh-Philadelphia team actually predated World War II by several years. The Pennsylvania Keystoners were a team that was proposed in 1939, conceived with the intention of the Steelers and Eagles owners buying into one of the two teams, then spinning the other off to an ownership group in Boston, Massachusetts. League officials rejected the plan, though it resulted in a convoluted ownership "two-step" that left Eagles owner Bert Bell with a share in the Steelers franchise.

America entered World War II on December 7, 1941 with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of the young men who were of the age to play professional football were also of the age to fight for their country. At least 600 NFL players joined the armed forces.

Feeling that country at war still needed entertainment and sports were a much-needed diversion, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an inspirational message focused on the importance of Major League Baseball to Americans' morale. He made no mention of football, during that address, as baseball far surpassed football in popularity at the time. However at its 1943 annual spring meeting, the NFL decided to follow baseball's lead and continue play. Other football leagues, such as the 1940–41 American Football League, Dixie League and the American Association, decided to suspend operations instead, leaving the NFL and its West Coast counterpart, the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, as the only leagues playing professional football at the time.

Draft deferments [ edit | edit source ]

The young men who remained in the States to play football were deferred from the draft. The Steagles players were either unfit for military service for physical reasons or age, or active servicemen who had obtained leave to play. Three types of deferments defined 1943 NFL players. The first group was called 3-As. If a man was supporting a family the draft board would not make him a priority. The government defined a 3-A as a father whose child/children was born or conceived prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The cutoff date for birth was September 15, 1942, precisely nine months and one week after Pearl Harbor. The second group consisted of those men who worked in the war industry, producing and preparing ammunition, weapons and materials. The third group (4-F's) were those deemed physically unfit due to ailments such as ulcers, flat feet and even partial blindness. Most NFL football players wanted to join the war. In the early 1940s it was considered a patriotic duty to serve and fight for the country. Being classified as a 4-F was an embarrassment. Playing football and being ridiculed was added embarrassment. However there was a feeling that if guys could play football they could fight in the war. One Steagle and future Hall of Famer, Bill Hewitt, quit in the middle of the season. He couldn't take the ridicule and subsequent guilt feelings anymore. Hewitt was good enough to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. However the players weren't making the decisions on who could or couldn't fight. Men with flat feet weren't drafted. They could lead normal lives and even play football, but the Army deemed that flat feet was not conducive to marching long distances. Similar reasons existed for other 4-F deferments. But numerous NFL players in 1943 had medical problems that kept them out of the military. Tony Bova, the Steagles' leading receiver with 17 receptions, was blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Steagles guard Ed Michaels was nearly deaf and center Ray Graves was deaf in one ear.[8] One starting defensive end was blind in one eye and nearly legally blind in the other. Steagles tailback John Butler made his first start one day after being ruled 4-F by his draft board for poor eyesight and bad knees.

1943 NFL Spring Meetings [ edit | edit source ]

Even with these deferments, NFL rosters were hurting. The Cleveland Rams suspended operations, and the Pittsburgh Steelers had only six men left under contract while the Philadelphia Eagles had only sixteen. The 1943 NFL Draft didn't help much. Most players drafted went off to the war instead of joining NFL teams. The league nearly ceased operations before the 1943 season, but it continued.

Steelers' owner Art Rooney knew that the league needed at least eight teams to survive. Rooney's idea was to merge the Steelers with the Eagles.[9] This idea came quickly to him since two years earlier he thought about combining the two teams into the Pennsylvania Keystoners. Eagles' owner Alexis Thompson, who was serving in the US Army as a corporal, was not as keen on the plan since he at least had 16 players under contract. However Thompson remembered how Rooney in 1941 swapped cities with him, allowing him to keep the Eagles in Philadelphia, close to his New York City home. This led to an agreement on combining the teams.

The league approved the merger by a vote of 5–4.[10] However, several owners expressed fears that the merger would produce a team with an unfair advantage. The merger had a slight lean in favor of Philadelphia based on stipulations imposed by Thompson. The team would be known as the Philadelphia Eagles and be based in Philadelphia. Rooney had very little leverage, bringing only six players to the table. However he was successful in landing two home games in Pittsburgh, while Philadelphia would host four. The team was also to wear the Eagles' green and white colors instead of Pittsburgh's black and gold.[11] This event officially marked the only time in the Steelers history that the team colors were something other than black and gold. The league also stated that helmets were mandated for the first time[12] and that the league would expand in 1944, with the Boston Yanks paying $50,000 for entry into the league.[13]

1943 season [ edit | edit source ]

Philadelphia's Greasy Neale and Pittsburgh's Walt Kiesling would be co-head coaches because each coach refused to be demoted.[14] This led to several problems. The first being that the two men hated each other. Secondly even Kiesling's own players didn't like him so asking the Eagles players to like him was too much to ask. However Neale took advantage when Kiesling was delayed en route to camp, which was held at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia.[15] By the time Keisling arrived, Neale already had the offense learning the T-formation, which was all the rage in those days because of its success in college football by Frank Leahy at Notre Dame and for Red Blaik at Army. This conflict led to Neale serving as the team's offensive coordinator while Kiesling served as the defensive coordinator. They would then split head coaching duties. According to defensive back Ernie Steele, the situation between the two coaches got so bad that Kiesling and Neale walked off the field after a heated argument in practice the Friday before a game. They returned for the game, but the players were nonetheless stunned. However after the Steagles' in 1943 & Card-Pitt in 1944, Pittsburgh reverted to using the single-wing formation through 1952, becoming the last NFL team to ever use it as its primary offensive set.

Another difficult issue that at the time, was that the Steelers and Eagles were bitter interstate rivals, much like the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers rivalry of today, and usually ended up at near the bottom of standings each year. The Steagles were the only professional sports team where all the players held full-time war jobs, as it was a requirement of the team.[16] Playing football was seen as an extracurricular activity. All of the 25 players on the roster kept full-time jobs in defense plants. One of Pittsburgh's players, Ted Doyle, worked at Westinghouse Electric and figured out later that his work assisted the Manhattan Project, which was America's effort to build the first atomic bomb, according to Matthew Algeo's book Last Team Standing.

As the season got underway, fans and newspapers began calling the team the Steagles, a combination of Steelers and Eagles. It had a nice ring to it and was fair to both cities. Steagles eventually became the common name used for the team throughout most of the country, except in Philadelphia, where the writers and even the team insisted on being called the Philadelphia Eagles. Chet Smith, the sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press, was initially the one who wrote in a column the moniker Steagles, for the merged team.[17](and according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Slowly, the team began to come together, united by hard work, shared sacrifice, and teamwork. The Steagles jumped out to a 2–0 start after defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants at Shibe Park. During the New York game the Steagles fumbled the ball a record 10 times, but managed to win 28–14. The Steagles record of 10 fumbles in one game by one team is still in existence today. The squad of outcasts and misfits then banded together and managed to shockingly tie the defending champion Washington Redskins in their first meeting, and even defeated the 'Skins in their second meeting. The team stumbled on the road and after seven games was 3–3–1. However the team regrouped during two games at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which were wins over the Chicago Cardinals on Halloween and over the Detroit Lions on Nov. 21. The team's final game was played in front of 35,000 fans at Shibe Park against Don Hutson and the Green Bay Packers. The Packers would go on to win the game 38–28.

The Steagles 1943 season was the Philadelphia franchise's first winning season in its history and the second for Pittsburgh's.[18]

The next season, 1944, the NFL was back on solid footing. The Army had declared that it had enough soldiers and men over 26 years of age would not be drafted, though the league had another problem. With the Cleveland Rams back in operation, the expansion Boston Yanks team in the fold and the Eagles and Steelers back in their separate ways, the NFL had 11 teams, which created a nightmare with divisions and scheduling. NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden begged for two teams to combine again in 1944. Ten teams made for a perfect league and eleven seemed impossible. The Steelers were still short of players due to the war. Pittsburgh owner Art Rooney was rumored to be so unhappy with the "Phil-Pitt" arrangement that he merged with the Chicago Cardinals for the 1944 season, creating a team known as Card-Pitt (derisively called "carpet" due to going winless, and the commentary that "every team walked all over them"). The war ended by the time the 1945 NFL season started, and with the Brooklyn Tigers and the aforementioned Boston franchising permanently merging, there was an even number of ten teams to the delight of owners.

The Eagles, now having enough players back from the war, resumed their traditional operation and continued under Neale, who would take home back-to-back coach of the year awards as Philadelphia won consecutive NFL championships in 1948 and 1949.

Individually, the Steagles' Jack Hinkle ended the season with 571 rushing yards. He lost the rushing title to New York's Bill Paschal by one yard. Against those very Giants Hinkle was not given credit for a 37-yard run (they gave it to John Butler). Hinkle did not complain about not winning the NFL rushing crown.[18] He figured with a war going on there were better things to cry about. Tony Bova, a half-blind 4-F, led the team in receiving with 417 yards.

Popular culture [ edit | edit source ]

The 1971 film "The Steagle", starring Richard Benjamin, takes its name from the Steagles football team. In the opening scene, the protagonist of the film, a bookish college professor, explains the history and meaning of the term to a pair of loudly arguing sports fans on a commuter train, and draws an admiring look from an attractive Asian woman who is a fellow passenger. The film concerns the personality change which overcomes the protagonist during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the film's title impliedly references the transient nature of the Steagles team, existing for only one brief season during a national crisis.

60th anniversary [ edit | edit source ]

The Steelers celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Steagles on August 17, 2003 during the pregame and halftime ceremonies at Heinz Field.

Six of the nine surviving members of that team were honored at halftime. Those members were quarterback Allie Sherman, running back and defensive back Ernie Steele, center Ray Graves, and tackles Al Wistert, Vic Sears, and Bucko Kilroy. End Tom Miller, tackle Ted Doyle and halfback John Hinkle were unable to attend.[19] Graves, Wistert and Sherman are the only three players from the 1943 squad still alive as of June 2011.[20] All three of the surviving players belonged to the Eagles. Ted Doyle, who died in 2006, was the last surviving Steeler player from the team.[21]

In addition the Steelers recreated the Steagles era in their "Turn Back the Clock" ceremonies, including broadcasting in black and white on the Jumbotron and airing World War II footage during the national anthem. All live entertainment reflected the 1940s.[19] During the festivities the Steelers gave each of the six members a replica Steagles jersey to wear. The jerseys worn by honorees were later given back to the Steelers and sold to help benefit a local charity. The Steelers also painted the south end zone in plain diagonal white lines, a common practice in the NFL until the 1960s. The Steelers later kept the "plain" design in the south end zone permanently. The Eagles won the game 21–16.

Main article: 1943 NFL Draft

Player Selections [ edit | edit source ]

The table shows the Eagles selections and the Steelers selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the their pick ended up with this team via another team that they made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that were traded away.

Regular season [ edit | edit source ]

Final standings [ edit | edit source ]

NFL Eastern Conference W L T PCT PF PA STK Washington Redskins 6 3 1 .667 229 137 L-3 New York Giants 6 3 1 .667 197 170 W-4 Steagles 5 4 1 .556 225 230 L-1 Brooklyn Dodgers 2 8 0 .200 65 234 L-2

Game summaries [ edit | edit source ]

Week 1: vs. Brooklyn Dodgers [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Dodgers 0 0 0 0 0 Steagles 10 7 0 0 17





The Steagles held the Dodgers to minus 33 rushing yards; this was the second lowest rushing total posted by a single team in an NFL game to that point. It currently ranks as the third-lowest rushing output in league history.[34]

Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Zimmerman 32 yard field goal

– Zimmerman 32 yard field goal Steagles – Butler 10 yard run (Zimmerman kick) 2nd quarter Steagles – Steele 10 yard run (Zimmerman kick) 3rd quarter No scoring 4th quarter No scoring Steagles Game Statistics[24] Dodgers 10 First downs 8 50–202 Rushes–yards 23–(−33) 98 Passing yards 126 4–16–0 Template:Abbr 14–34–3 21 Punt return yards 26 0 Kickoff return yards 93 3–43.3 Template:Abbr 5–42.8 4–3 Fumbles–lost 3–2 3–37 Penalties–yards 0–0

Week 2: vs. New York Giants [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Giants 14 0 0 0 14 Steagles 0 7 0 21 28





Despite setting a league record by fumbling the ball ten times, the Steagles overcame the Giants on the strength of three fourth-quarter touchdowns. The mark of ten fumbles in a game by one team has since been matched three times, but it has never been topped.[35]

Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Giants – Younce 30 yard interception return (Cuff kick)

– Younce 30 yard interception return (Cuff kick) Giants – Paschal 1 yard run (Cuff kick) 2nd quarter Steagles – Steele 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick) 3rd quarter No scoring 4th quarter Steagles – Thurbon 11 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick)

– Thurbon 11 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Miller 31 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick)

– Miller 31 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Sherman 4 yard run (Paschka kick) Steagles Game Statistics[25] Giants 14 First downs 6 43–191 Rushes–yards 33–42 112 Passing yards 50 5–13–3 Template:Abbr 6–14–3 83 Return yards 76 22 Template:Abbr 42.8 10–5 Fumbles–lost 2–0 6–50 Penalties–yards 5–35

Week 3: at Chicago Bears [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Steagles 7 0 0 14 {{{RTotal}}} Bears 7 28 7 6 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Steele 60 yard pass from Zimmerman(Zimmerman kick)

– Steele 60 yard pass from Zimmerman(Zimmerman kick) Bears – Magnani 96 yard kick return (Snyder kick) 2nd quarter Bears – Wilson 16 yard pass from Luckman (Snyder kick)

– Wilson 16 yard pass from Luckman (Snyder kick) Bears – Magnani 13 yard run (Snyder kick)

– Magnani 13 yard run (Snyder kick) Bears – Nolting 3 yard run (Snyder kick)

– Nolting 3 yard run (Snyder kick) Bears – McEnulty 10 yard pass from Luckman (Snyder kick) 3rd quarter Bears – Clarke 81 yard fumble return (Snyder kick) 4th quarter Bears – Pool 17 yard pass from Luckman (kick failed)

– Pool 17 yard pass from Luckman (kick failed) Steagles – Bova 51 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick)

– Bova 51 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Butler 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Steagles Game Statistics[36][26] Bears 12 First downs 15 30–60 Rushes–yards 46–205 109 Passing yards 176 6–24–2 Template:Abbr 13–25–2 130 Return yards 183 3–36.7 Template:Abbr 5–37 2–1 Fumbles–lost 2–1 7–76.5 Penalties–yards 15–108.5

Week 4: at New York Giants [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Steagles 0 0 0 14 {{{RTotal}}} Giants 14 14 14 0 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Giants – Adams 34 yard blocked punt return (Cuff kick)

– Adams 34 yard blocked punt return (Cuff kick) Giants – Walls 31 yard pass from Nix (Cuff kick) 2nd quarter Giants – Paschal 4 yard run (Cuff kick)

– Paschal 4 yard run (Cuff kick) Giants – Liebel 6 yard pass from Leemans (Cuff kick) 3rd quarter Giants – Blozis 35 yard blocked punt return (Cuff kick)

– Blozis 35 yard blocked punt return (Cuff kick) Giants – Paschal 1 yard run (Cuff kick) 4th quarter Steagles – Kish 4 yard pass from Sherman (Lauxkick)

– Kish 4 yard pass from Sherman (Lauxkick) Steagles – Wukits 2 yard fumble return (Laux kick) Steagles Game Statistics[27] Giants 10 First downs 12 38–64 Rushes–yards 30–72 168 Passing yards 127 13–32–1 Template:Abbr 10–17–0 47 Punt return yards 60 13–35 Template:Abbr 6–49 4–1 Fumbles–lost 1–0 5–19 Penalties–yards 2–10

Week 5: vs. Chicago Cardinals [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Cardinals 0 13 0 0 {{{RTotal}}} Steagles 21 0 0 13 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Kish 86 yard interception return (Zimmerman kick)

– Kish 86 yard interception return (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Bova 31 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick)

– Bova 31 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Hinkle fumble recovery in end zone (Zimmerman kick) 2nd quarter Cardinals – Currivan 35 yard pass from Masters (kick failed)

– Currivan 35 yard pass from Masters (kick failed) Cardinals – Hall 67 yard pass from Cahill (Stokes kick) 3rd quarter No scoring 4th quarter Steagles – Thurbon 3 yard run (kick failed)

– Thurbon 3 yard run (kick failed) Steagles – Bova 26 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles Game Statistics[28] Cardinals 16 First downs 9 54–167 Rushes–yards 28–31 74 Passing yards 173 4–10–1 Template:Abbr 8–21–3 45 Punt return yards 17 5–33 Template:Abbr 7–36.3 75 Kickoff return yards 28 4–2 Fumbles–lost 2–2 6–82 Penalties–yards 6–59

Week 6: vs. Washington Redskins [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Redskins 0 0 7 7 {{{RTotal}}} Steagles 0 0 7 7 {{{HTotal}}}





The 1942 NFL Champion Washington Redskins come to Philadelphia with a 13 regular season game winning streak, and for 1943 scoring an avg of 30 points per game and allowing on 6 a game.





Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter No scoring 2nd quarter No scoring 3rd quarter Steagles – Cabrelli 24 yard interception return (Zimmerman kick)

– Cabrelli 24 yard interception return (Zimmerman kick) Redskins – Moore 25 yard pass from Baugh (Masterson kick) 4th quarter Steagles – Rymkus 4 yard blocked punt return (Masterson kick)

– Rymkus 4 yard blocked punt return (Masterson kick) Redskins – Steele 35 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles Game Statistics[29] Redskins 10 First downs 11 44–80 Rushes–yards 23–62 89 Passing yards 147 5–17–3 Template:Abbr 15–30–3 32 Punt return yards 47 11–31.5 Template:Abbr 5–48.6 56 Kickoff return yards 52 2–0 Fumbles–lost 6–3 7–79 Penalties–yards 6–60

Week 7: at Brooklyn Dodgers [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Steagles 7 0 0 0 {{{RTotal}}} Dodgers 0 7 6 0 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Thurbon 3 yard run (Paschka kick) 2nd quarter Dodgers – Manders 2 yard run (Kinard kick) 3rd quarter Dodgers – Condit 65 yard pass from Heineman (kick failed) 4th quarter No scoring Steagles Game Statistics[30] Redskins 10 First downs 11 44–80 Rushes–yards 23–62 89 Passing yards 147 5–17–3 Template:Abbr 15–30–3 32 Punt return yards 47 11–31.5 Template:Abbr 5–48.6 56 Kickoff return yards 52 2–0 Fumbles–lost 6–3 7–79 Penalties–yards 6–60

Week 8: vs. Detroit Lions [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Lions 0 13 7 14 {{{RTotal}}} Steagles 7 7 7 14 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Butler 4 yard run (Zimmerman kick) 2nd quarter Steagles – Hinkle 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Hinkle 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Lions – Mathews 98 yard kick return (Lio kick)

– Mathews 98 yard kick return (Lio kick) Lions – Hopp 88 yard run (kick failed) 3rd quarter Steagles – Thurbon 2 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Thurbon 2 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Lions – Hackney 7 yard run (Lio kick) 4th quarter Lions – Hopp 88 yard lateral from Mathews (Lio kick)

– Hopp 88 yard lateral from Mathews (Lio kick) Steagles – Cabrelli 7 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick)

– Cabrelli 7 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Zimmerman 2 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Zimmerman 2 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Lions – Van Tone 71 yard pass from Fenenbock (Lio kick) Steagles Game Statistics[31] Lions 17 First downs 12 48–262 Rushes–yards 33–160 83 Passing yards 194 10 Yards off laterals 25 7–13–1 Template:Abbr 10–22–4 0 Punt return yards 9 4–40.75 Template:Abbr 2–32.5 101 Kickoff return yards 167 2–1 Fumbles–lost 3–1 3–35 Penalties–yards 4–40

Week 9: at Washington Redskins [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Steagles 7 0 7 13 {{{RTotal}}} Washington 0 0 7 7 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Steagles – Thurbon 6 yard run (Zimmerman kick) 2nd quarter No scoring 3rd quarter Steagles – Thurbon 5 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Thurbon 5 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Redskins – Masterson 4 yard pass from Baugh (Masterson kick) 4th quarter Steagles – Steele 47 yard run (Zimmerman kick failed)

– Steele 47 yard run (Zimmerman kick failed) Steagles – Hinkle 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Hinkle 1 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Redskins – Aguirre 12 yard pass from Baugh (Aguirre kick) Steagles Game Statistics[32] Redskins 19 First downs 10 64–297 Rushes–yards 20–58 82 Passing yards 211 6–13–1 Template:Abbr 14–28–2 13 Punt return yards 61 6–29.7 Template:Abbr 7–39.5 59 Kickoff return yards 81 4–2 Fumbles–lost 1–0 5–30 Penalties–yards 10–60

Week 10: vs. Green Bay Packers [ edit | edit source ]

Team 1 2 3 4 Total Packers 14 3 7 14 {{{RTotal}}} Steagles 14 0 0 14 {{{HTotal}}}









Scoring Drives and Statistics: 1st quarter Packers – Canadeo 35 yard run (Hutson kick)

– Canadeo 35 yard run (Hutson kick) Steagles – Hinkle 38 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Hinkle 38 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Packers – Canadeo 13 yard pass from Brock (Hutson kick)

– Canadeo 13 yard pass from Brock (Hutson kick) Steagles – Bova 48 yard pass from Zimmerman (Zimmerman kick) 2nd quarter Packers – Hutson 25 yard field goal 3rd quarter Packers – Comp 4 yard run (Hutson kick) 4th quarter Packers – Hutson 12 yard pass from Comp (Hutson kick)

– Hutson 12 yard pass from Comp (Hutson kick) Steagles – Bova 13 yard pass from Sherman (Zimmerman kick)

– Bova 13 yard pass from Sherman (Zimmerman kick) Steagles – Steele 4 yard run (Zimmerman kick)

– Steele 4 yard run (Zimmerman kick) Packers – Hutson 23 yard pass from Comp (Hutson kick) Steagles Game Statistics[37] Packers 10 First downs 8 40–142 Rushes–yards 38–175 176 Passing yards 103 7–18–6 Template:Abbr 9–23–2 57 Punt return yards 8 3–36 Template:Abbr 5–39 176 Kickoff return yards 63 4–2 Fumbles–lost 0–0 2–10 Penalties–yards 8–55

Algeo, Matthew (2006), Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles—"The Steagles"—Saved Pro Football During World War II. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press. ISBN ISBN 978-0-306-81472-3