Dan Fortmann team captain, he led the Bears to back-to-back NFL championships in 1940 and 1941 with records of 8–3 and 10–1. After the 1940 season, Fortmann was rated as the best lineman in the NFL. The United Press called him "the heart and soul" of the Bears' ground attack that "rolled up a vast amount of yardage overland." In the 1940 NFL Championship Game, the Bears defeated the Washington Redskins by a 73-0 score. Fortman later cited the 1940 championship game as proof of Halas' skill as a "master of psychology." The Bears had lost to the Redskins three weeks earlier,
1942 NFL Championship Game Bears won in a 73–0 rout. "Sunday, December 13, 1942"<br> Kickoff: 2 p.m. EWT (EDT) The NFL had only four game officials in ; the back judge was added in , the line judge in , and the side judge in . The gate receipts from the sellout were over $113,000, a record, and each Redskin player received about $976 while each Bear saw about $639. At the time, an owners' winter meeting and the annual draft of college players was held around the title game. A year into World War II for the United States and with much of