T formation the key weapon used by the Chicago Bears, who had used the T formation since the team's inception in 1920, to defeat the Washington Redskins, 73–0, in the 1940 NFL Championship Game and immortalized afterward in their fight song. Shaughnessy helped the Bears prepare for the game against the Redskins. He has been called "The father of the T formation". The T-formation was viewed as a complicated "gadget" offense by early football coaches. But NFL owner-coach George Halas and Ralph Jones of the Chicago Bears along with University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy, University of Texas coach Dana X. Bible,
1940 NFL Championship Game to the team which had just beaten them, the Bears made an eleven-touchdown pile and used it as a pedestal to raise the NFL to view in all corners of the country... Pro football, the T-formation and the Chicago Bears were the sudden sports news of the year." "Sunday, December 8, 1940"<br> Kickoff: 1:30 p.m. EST The NFL had only four game officials in ; the back judge was added in , the line judge in , and the side judge in . Source: The net gate receipts from the sellout were over $102,000, a record, and each Bear player