The 1950

1950 NFL season

The 1950 NFL season was the 31st regular season of the National Football League. The merger with the All-America Football Conference expanded the league to 13 teams. Meanwhile, television brought a new era to the game. The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL team to have all of its games – both...

 Chicago Bears

Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

 season was their 31st regular season

Regular season (NFL)

The National Football League regular season begins the weekend after Labor Day. Each team plays 16 games during a 17-week period. Traditionally, the majority of each week's games are played on Sunday afternoon, with weekly games on Sunday night and Monday night, and occasional games on Thursday...

 and 10th postseason

NFL playoffs

The National Football League playoffs are a single-elimination tournament held at the end of the regular season to determine the NFL champion. Six teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records, and a tie-breaking procedure exists in the...

 completed in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

. The club posted a 9-3 record under head coach George Halas

George Halas

George Stanley Halas, Sr. , nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional American football. He was the iconic longtime leader of the NFL's Chicago Bears...

 forcing a tie for first in the National Conference with the Los Angeles Rams, but the team finished in second place because the Bears lost to the Rams in the NFL's National Conference one-game playoff allowing the Rams to move on to the NFL Championship Game

NFL Championship Game, 1950

The 1950 National Football League championship game was the 18th NFL title game. The game was played on December 24, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio's Municipal Stadium.-Background:...

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Schedule

Bye

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
1	September 17, 1950	at Los Angeles Rams	W 24-20
2	September 24, 1950	at San Francisco 49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...	W 32-20
3	October 1, 1950	at Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...	L 31-21
4	October 8, 1950	Chicago Cardinals	W 27-6
5	October 15, 1950	Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...	W 28-14
7	October 29, 1950	at New York Yanks New York Yanks The New York Yanks American football team played in the National Football League under that name in the 1950 and 1951 seasons. In 1949, Boston Yanks owner Ted Collins had requested the NFL to fold his Boston team and give him a new one in New York City...	L 38-27
8	November 5, 1950	at Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	W 35-21
9	November 12, 1950	New York Yanks New York Yanks The New York Yanks American football team played in the National Football League under that name in the 1950 and 1951 seasons. In 1949, Boston Yanks owner Ted Collins had requested the NFL to fold his Boston team and give him a new one in New York City...	W 28-20
10	November 19, 1950	San Francisco 49ers San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...	W 17-0
11	November 26, 1950	Los Angeles Rams	W 24-14
12	December 3, 1950	at Chicago Cardinals	L 20-10
13	December 10, 1950	Detroit Lions Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...	W 6-3

Playoffs

Week	Date	Opponent	Result
Division	December 17, 1950	at Los Angeles Rams	L 24-14

Standings

NFL National Eastern and Western Divisions (NFL) 1933-69 The Eastern and Western Divisions of the National Football League, renamed the American and National Conferences in 1950 and then the Eastern and Western Conferences in 1953, were organized as a result of the disputed NFL championship of 1932...
	W	L	T	PCT	PF	PA	STK
Los Angeles Rams 1950 Los Angeles Rams season The 1950 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 13th year with the National Football League and the fifth season in Los Angeles.The 1950 Rams hold the NFL's all-time record for average points per game, scoring 38.8 points per game...	9	3	0	.750	466	309	W-1
Chicago Bears	9	3	0	0.750	279	207	W-1
New York Yanks 1950 New York Yanks season The 1950 New York Yanks season was their first as the Yanks . The team improved on their previous season's output of 1-10-1, winning seven games. Their games were particularly high scoring; in seven of their twelve games, forty or more points were scored by a single...	7	5	0	.583	366	367	W-1
Detroit Lions 1950 Detroit Lions season The 1950 Detroit Lions season was their 21st in the league. The team improved on their previous season's output of 4-8, winning six games. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 15th consecutive season.-Schedule:-Standings:-References:...	6	6	0	.500	321	285	L-1
San Francisco 49ers 1950 San Francisco 49ers season The 1950 San Francisco 49ers season was the team's first season in the NFL, after playing the previous four years in the All-America Football Conference, which folded after the 1949 season...	3	9	0	.250	213	300	W-1
Green Bay Packers 1950 Green Bay Packers season The 1950 Green Bay Packers season was their 32nd season in the National Football League. The club posted a 3-9 record under coach Gene Ronzani, earning them a fifth place finish in the National Conference.-Offseason:...	3	9	0	.250	244	406	L-2
Baltimore Colts 1950 Baltimore Colts season The 1950 Baltimore Colts season was their fourth as a franchise and lone season in the NFL. The team matched their previous season's output of 1-11. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive season.-Schedule:-Standings:...	1	11	0	.083	213	462	L-5