Ernie Nevers

Sports Legend Revealed: Did a $1 investment turn into 10% ownership of the Minnesota Vikings?

2010-10-06 16:33:14

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Sports Legend Revealed: Were the Washington Redskins once the Duluth Eskimos?

2011-03-15 16:33:08

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U.S. Approves Project to Clear Bunker Hill

2009-10-31 16:32:42

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Delicious memories

2001-11-20 00:00:00

Some of the NFL�s most memorable characters and unforgettable plays are associated with Thanksgiving Day, and the list of holiday classics begins with November 28, 1929. That�s when Chicago Cardinals fullback Ernie Nevers wrote his name into the NFL...

Nevers again

2001-11-20 00:00:00

Running back Corey Dillon was shoeless at a press conference in October, 2000, when the Bengals honored their star for his 278-yard rushing effort against the Broncos. That�s because Pro Football Hall of Fame historian Joe Horrigan was on hand to claim...

Thanksgiving Day Records

2001-11-20 00:00:00

The top performers on Thanksgiving SCORING Most Touchdowns, Game 6 Ernie Nevers, Chi. Cardinals vs. Chi. Bears, Nov. 28, 1929* 4 Sterling Sharpe, Green Bay at Dallas, Nov. 24, 1994 3 By many players RUSHING Most Yards Rushing, Game 273 O.J....

Pilgrims & pigskins

2001-11-20 00:00:00

Before facemasks and player substitution and championship games, the NFL had Thanksgiving. A generation of younger fans might have a hard time believing the marriage of football and Thanksgiving is older than the careers of Barry Sanders and Emmitt...

Bears win: Sayers scores 6 TDs

1965-12-12 00:00:00

The ghosts of Red Grange, Ernie Nevers, George McAfee and Jim Thorpe moved over in football's Valhalla yesterday to make room for a mercurial rookie from Kansas, who tore up the record book and the sodden turf of Wrigley Field with one of the most...

Chicago Bears coach George Halas (left) is seen with Chicago Cardinals coach Ernie Nevers (right) and Cardinals owner Charles Bidwill in December 1939. Halas and Bidwill had known each other since World War One , and Bidwill once was a part-owner of the Bears. During the lean years of the Great

2009-01-28 08:18:30