NFL Championship Game, 1948

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1948 NFL Championship Game
Cardinals 'Eagles'
0 7
1 2 3 4 Total
Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0
Eagles 0 0 0 7 7
Date December 19, 1948
Stadium Shibe Park
City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Referee N/A
Attendance 36,309
TV/Radio in the United States
TV Network ABC
TV Announcers Harry Wismer
Radio Network N/A
Radio Announcers N/A

The 1948 National Football League Championship game was the 16th NFL title game played. The game was a rematch of the previous year's championship game between the Chicago Cardinals, champions of the Western Division and the Philadelphia Eagles, champions of the Eastern Division. It was the first NFL championship game to be televised. In the early days of television, "snow" was a frequent problem, but in this case the snow was real. The grounds crew needed the help of players from both teams to remove the tarp from the field, because of the heavy snowfall.[citation needed]

[edit] Game summary

The game was played at Philadelphia's Shibe Park on December 19, 1948 during a blizzard. Bert Bell, commissioner of the NFL had considered postponing the game but the players for both teams wanted to play the game. The attendance for the game was 36,309. The teams played a scoreless game until early in the fourth quarter when, after Chicago had fumbled in their own end of the field, the Eagles recovered the fumble that set up Steve Van Buren's five yard touchdown at 1:05 into the fourth quarter.

This game turned out be the Cardinals' last appearance in any NFL Championsship game (including Super Bowl) to date.

  • First Quarter
    • No Scoring
  • Second Quarter
    • No Scoring
  • Third Quarter
    • No scoring
  • Fourth Quarter
    • Phil- Van Buren 5 run (Patton kick)
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