WORLD CHAMPIONS
The 1929 Green Bay Packers - 12-0-1 (1st)
1929 PRE-SEASON RESULTS (1-0)
SEPTEMBER (1-0)
15 PORTSMOUTH SPARTANS W 14- 0 1-0-0 5,000
1929 RESULTS (12-0-1)
SEPTEMBER (2-0)
22 DAYTON TRIANGLES (0-0-0) W 9- 0 1-0-0 5,000
29 CHICAGO BEARS (1-0-0) W 23- 0 2-0-0 13,000
OCTOBER (4-0)
6 CHICAGO CARDINALS (1-0-0) W 9- 2 3-0-0 6,000
13 FRANKFORD YELLOWJACKETS (3-0-0) W 14- 2 4-0-0 9,000
20 MINNEAPOLIS RED
… MoreJACKETS (1-2-0) W 24- 0 5-0-0 6,000
PLAYER POS COLLEGE G YRS HT WT
Verne Lewellen B Nebraska 13 6 6- 2 181
Cully Lidberg B Minnesota 2 6- 0 200
Hurdis McCrary B Georgia 13 1 6- 2 205
Johnny McNally B St. Johns 12 1 6- 0 190
Mike Michalske G Penn State 13 1 6- 1 215
Paul Minick G Iowa 6 2 5-11 210
Bo Molenda B Michigan 12 2 5-11 208
Tom Nash E Georgia 10 2 6- 3 210
Dick O'Donnell E Minnesota 10 6 5-10 196
Claude Perry T Alabama 12 3 6- 1 211
Red Smith B Notre Dame 5 2 5-10 225
Whitey Woodin G Marquette 6 8 5-11 206
Bill Young G Ohio State 2 1 6- 1 200
Dave Zuidmulder B St. Ambrose 1 1 6- 1 184
PLAYER POS COLLEGE G YRS HT WT
Roger Ashmore T Gonzaga 8 2 6- 1 212
Bullet Baker B USC 2 2 6- 0 177
James Bowdoin G Alabama 12 2 6- 2 220
Tiny Cahoon T Gonzaga 2 4 6- 2 235
Boob Darling C Beloit 11 3 6- 3 215
Lavvie Dilweg E Marquette 13 4 6- 3 202
Red Dunn B Marquette 11 3 6- 0 178
Jug Earp T Monmouth 11 8 6- 1 235
Jack Evans B California 1 6- 0 195
Don Hill B Stanford 3 1 5-11 190
Cal Hubbard T-E Geneva 12 1 6- 5 250
William Kern T Pittsburgh 1 6- 0 187
Eddie Kotal B Lawrence 11 5 5-10 165
Curly Lambeau B Notre Dame 1 10 6- 0 190
1929 IN REVIEW
The Packers signed B Johnny Blood (McNally), T Cal Hubbard and G Mike Michalske, leading to a 12-0-1 record and their first NFL title, posting 12-0-1 record. Curly Lambeau appeared only once on the field, playing in the November 17 win over the Cardinals. He was the last remaining member of the 1921 Packers which played in the NFL. Upon their return to the city after beating the Bears in Chicago for their first NFL title, the Packers were greeted at the Chicago & North Western railroad depot by an estimated crowd of 20,000. At a dinner the following night, each player was rewarded with $220 and a watch raised through public donations. The year also saw Packer games broadcast on the radio for the first time, when WTMJ recreated a game from New York between the Giants and Packers. Russ Winnie recreated the broadcast using raw data from a teletype machine.
ON THE AIR IN PACKERLAND
Before radio, when Packers played on the road, as many as 500 fans turned out at Legion Park to “watch” game on Playograph board (telegraph reports from press box re-created game on screen, complete with PA). Milwaukee radio station WTMJ broadcast its first Packer game on November 24, 1929, a Packer win in New York. Announcer Russ Winnie was not actually in the Big Apple. He "re-created" the broadcast based on teletype report. The first live broadcast came in 1931 when Winnie traveled to Chicago. Though its broadcasts began in 1929, WTMJ did not begin paying the Packers for broadcast rights until 1943; it paid the team $7500 to broadcast the season. In the early 1930s, there was no exclusive right given to broadcast games, and WHBY in Green Bay often sent its own announcers to call the game. Here are the primary radio announcers in Packer history, although the list is by no means complete:
Russ Winnie (1929-1946) - Winnie, with assistance from his spotter, his wife, was the first radio voice of the Packers. He stepped down in 1947 to become station manager of WTMJ, then died too young, at age 49, of a heart attack in 1956.
Bob Heiss (1947-54) - Heiss had started with WTMJ in 1938 broadcasting Wisconsin Badger football.
Earl Gillespie (1952 -?) - Gillespie was the voice of the Packers when the games were on WEMP, as well as WTMJ.
Tony Flynn (1954-?)
Bob Forte (1954-?)
Larry Clark (1947-1960) - Clark left to do the Cardinals broadcasts when they moved to St. Less
