1942 Chicago Bears season 1942 Chicago Bears season The 1942 Chicago Bears season was their 23rd regular season and 7th postseason completed in the National Football League. The club posted an 11–0 record under head coach George Halas (who left for World War II in November) and temporary co-coaches Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos. The Bears were denied a three-peat and the undefeated season when they lost to the Washington Redskins in the year's title game. In the previous two NFL championship games, the Bears defeated the Redskins 73-0 and then the Giants 37-9. The 1942 Bears were "the single most dominant team in
1921 NFL Championship controversy applicable as both their games had ended in ties, which forced the league to schedule a playoff game to settle the dispute. The NFL Championship Game would become permanent in when the NFL divided into Eastern and Western divisions and standardized its schedule, with the "greater weight to a later game" tiebreaker being formally abolished. 1921 NFL Championship controversy The 1921 NFL Championship controversy, known among Buffalo sports historians and fans as the Staley Swindle, is a dispute in which the Buffalo All-Americans unintentionally surrendered the 1921 APFA Championship title to the Chicago Staleys (later renamed the Chicago Bears). The