Bears Over Giants

In professional football a ball is not down unless its runner is completely stopped. A forward pass may be thrown from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The goalposts are on the goalline, instead of 10 yards behind. How these rules open up the game 30,000 spectators saw for themselves last week when the Chicago Bears played the New York Giants in Chicago's Wrigley Field for the national professional championship. They also saw first hand what many of them had only known about from hearsay before--that the best professional football, given less to grandstand theatricals and more to the theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best of college games. Thirty-five forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants' crack Quarterback Harry Newman (Michigan's All-American of last year) alone threw 17, completed 12. Fullback Jack Manders of the Bears kicked three out of four field goals, one from the 42-yd. line. The lead changed six times, stood 21-to-16 in favor of the Giants in the last minutes of play when the Bears' Fullback Bronko Nagurski duplicated his earlier pass that brought about his team's first touchdown. Almost tackled as he butted into the line, he leaped, passed the ball to Left End Hewitt who passed it to Right End Karr who ran across the goal line to win the national title for the second consecutive season, 23-to-21.

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