season tickets, President Joannes told the group, this season approaches the magnitude of a problem vitally important, and he urged the sale of not less than 3,000 tickets. "We need the help of every stockholder," he said. "We must go out and really work, for it is the only means whereby we may keep the Packers in Green Bay. Unless we have exceptional weather, we must depend on our sale of season tickets to avert a loss which might be fatal to the future of professional football in Green Bay."...MAKE ONE EXCEPTION: Season tickets will sell for $6, $9, $12 and $14, every seat in City stadium being marked and reserved. Prices for single home games will range from $1 to $2.50 with one exception - the all-important game with the Chicago Bears. Seats for the Packer-Bear game will sell at $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3, the latter price being for box seats. Purchasers of season tickets, however, will receive seats for that game at no advance in price. It is the desire of corporation leaders to launch the drive no later than next week. All Packer home game tickets this season will be sold at the Columbus Community club, as all branch agencies in Green Bay will be eliminated. The habit of holding reservations until Sunday noon for each game also will be eliminated.
PROSPECTS FOR SEASON HAILED AS BRIGHT
JULY 23 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers will face the 1935 NFL season with greater optimism than they have felt in several years, Coach E.L. Lambeau told stockholders of the corporation at their annual meeting last night, held at the Brown county courthouse. Lambeau sketched the outline of the squad, as it now appears to be taking form, striking a high note of cheer for its chances in 1935. "The Packers may not be in the playoff for the title next fall," he said, "but we will always be in the running. If we get as many good breaks next fall as we received bad breaks last year, we'll be on top at the end. The Chicago Bears cannot improve, and if the Packer replacements are as good as we have reason to believe they are, the Green Bay team definitely is on the upgrade. The Bears will lose Link Lyman, an invaluable lineman, and there is some question as to how valuable Carl Brumbaugh, veteran quarterback, will be to the team this year. Brumbaugh has been to the Chicago Bears as Red Dunn was to the Packers."...LIONS SPEND MONEY: "Detroit is spending a lot of money and has a great organization, but the Bears are our barometer - they are our natural rivals. Still, we have a perfect right to be optimistic as the spirit of the Packer fans is greatly improved, and this attitude is certain to be reflected on the club." The Packers will report Aug. 24, Lambeau said, and the corporation leaders now are seeking a suitable place for the squad to establish a summer training camp. Offers have been received from a dozen communities, some of them very attractive, but lack of a perfect playing field which would guarantee the team against injuries, has prevented a decision. Several practice games will supplant the usual scrimmages for the Packers. These games have been booked to permit the coach to obtain a good line on his material and to take the place of the unsatisfactory scrimmage sessions, wherein Packer is pitted against Packers. There will be little chance of making money on these practice games, but the corporation anticipates covering travel and hotel expenses and may come through with a few hundred dollars on the black side of the books...PLAY ALL STARS: A game has been set tentatively for Aug. 31 at State Fair park, Milwaukee, with the Packers facing the cream of Wisconsin semipro players, including those of La Crosse, Fort Atkinson and Wisconsin Rapids, Lambeau said. These players would be reinforced by University of Wisconsin and Marquette players, and perhaps would be coached by Dunn. Another game is booked tentatively for Monday afternoon, Sept. 2, at Chippewa Falls, and two days later a booking is being arranged at Winona, Minn. A non-league practice game is planned for Green Bay, Sept. 8, affording the squad a fine set of conditioning contests prior to the opening of the league schedule. "The Packers never have had such an array of talent signed and ready to report," Lambeau said. "We had a fine bunch of recruits in 1930, but I believe we will see a better brand next fall. If Bob Jones, veteran guard who has received an offer of a coaching job, reports to the team, I believe there will be not one weak spot on our entire ball club. There is a possibility that Jones will return, and if he does, the Packers will be assured one of the greatest guards in professional football. We will have weight and experience at center. Nate Barragar, who had trouble returning to the game after a year's layoff last season, should have a better year, and I regard Frank Butler, the 224-pounder from Michigan State, as an excellent prospect. Then there is George Svendsen, Minnesota center and tackle, who may break into the game."...TWO HUSKY MEN: "We will have little to worry about at guard, with Michalsek, Evans, Jones, O'Connor and Engebretsen returning. At left tackle there will be two husky newcomers - Ernie Smith of Southern California, who weighs 225 pounds, and George Maddox of Kansas State, weighing 224 pounds and standing 6 feet 3 inches. At right tackle we may depend upon Tar Schwammel and Champ Seibold, and of course there'll be Cal Hubbard, who can play either tackle. Seibold starred last season in the Southern league and gave a great account of himself. At ends we have two of the sturdiest men in the league - Milt Gantenbein and Al Rose. Among our recruits are Bob Tenner of Minnesota, who, I believe, will be able to play 60 minutes of pro football as soon as he joins the team, and Don Hutson, of Alabama, a very fast man who is great at snaring passes but who may need a little toughening before he is ripe for full-time work. Our backs were excellent last year, and next fall they will be reinforced by Swede Johnston and George Sauer, two huskies from whom much is expected. I have never seen an outlook so bright for a successful season. We now have only to await the outcome."
PACKERS WILL PLAY CHIPPEWA FALLS
JULY 27 (Green Bay) - Contracts for a football game between the Green Bay Packers and Chippewa Falls Marines, strong semi-professional outfit, were signed today. The contest will be played at Chippewa Falls Labor Day, Sept. 2, under sponsorship of the Northern Wisconsin District Fair association. The Chippewa Falls park has a seating capacity of 8,000.
LAUNCH PACKERS' TICKET CAMPAIGN
JULY 29 (Green Bay) - The Green Bay Packers, Inc., season ticket sale will be launched officially tonight at Joannes Bros., when officers, members of the board of directors, stockholders and volunteer solicitors get together to talk over the campaign. President L.H. Joannes of the football corporation will serve as chairman of the drive and he wants to sell 3,000 season tickets so that Coach E.L. Lambeau's entry in the National league will have enough funds available to keep pace with the larger cities in the circuit. Green Bay is the only small city left in big time postgraduate football and it takes a lot of money to compete with such metropolitan entries as New York, Chicago, Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Detroit. The most intensive season ticket sales campaign ever attempted by the Packers has been mapped out by President Joannes and his associate officers. the entire program will be outlined at tonight's session which gets underway promptly at 7:45.
BULLETIN
JULY 29 (Green Bay) - The scheduled game in Milwaukee between the Green Bay Packers and an all star semi-pro eleven, set for Aug. 31, has been cancelled, the Packers were notified late today.
LOOKING UP IN THE REALM OF SPORTS
JULY 30 (Green Bay) - With sultry, muggy weather settled over the city like a damp shroud, and the temperature fit for little in an athletic way but swimming or boating, this department today swings to the promise of another football season. Hemmed in on all sides of the National league front by the most formidable array of powerful elevens in the history of the circuit, the Packers nevertheless are counted upon to make a strong showing, and upon the likelihood that they will do just that rests the hopes of a corps of season ticket salesmen who today, perhaps, will ask you to arrange for your permanent 1935 reservations. Why should you accommodate these volunteer workers? You can write your own answers, but here are a couple you can't overlook:
1. Your purchase will help keep the Packers in Green Bay. Facing year by year a great financial outlay, and competing with bank rolls as impressive as the fourth period temperament of the Chicago Bears, the team absolutely cannot do without the 100 percent support of every one of its fans. It would be a dull Sunday afternoon in the autumn without a Packer team in Green Bay.
2. Your purchase will assure you the same seat for every one of the six home games, which bring to Green Bay the cream of the professional football league. By a new arrangement at the Packer ticket office, you may obtain special accommodations for special guests - thus, if your part is increased by one or two on the eve of a game, your seats will be changed so that the entire group may sit together.
3. Your purchase will enable you to see the Packer-Bear game, probably the outstanding annual clash in midwestern professional football, at no advance in price.
LAMBEAU SKETCHES CRUCIAL PACKER CONTESTS FOR LIONS
JULY 30 (Green Bay) - Down through the years, with a thrill in every sentence, Coach E.L. Lambeau of the Green Bay Packers yesterday sketched his personal highlights of the team's many seasons before the Lions club at the Beaumont hotel. Lambeau, after describing the team's well-known excellent prospects for the coming season, detailed the games of the past which, in his own mind, marked important milestones in the development of the Packers. The first crucial game the team ever faced, he recalled, was in 1919 at Ishpeming, Mich. "There was plenty of war money in the air," said the coach, "and the young Packer team had been winning all its games by big scores. We were offered a large guarantee to go to Ishpeming, and they lined up a tough team for us to meet. On the first three plays three men, including Al Petcka and Jimmy Coffeen, were carried from the field with broken bones. We decided to be elusive, and for the last 55 minutes of that game we only threw three passes and punted all the rest of the time - yet we won by three touchdowns. Then came that important game with the Minneapolis Marines, in 1921, when the Packers were trying to get into the NFL. We were told to make a showing against the Marines, and they came to Green Bay with a galaxy of stars, to play at old Hagemeister park. Minneapolis got an early touchdown, and was leading, 6 to 0. The team had several other scoring chances but missed them by fumbling. Finally, the visiting safety man fumbled and a Green Bay end recovered on the Minneapolis 22-yard line. In five plays the Packers worked the ball to the three-yard line for a first down, and even then it took us three or four plays to get it over. We won the game, 7 to 6, and earned the right to enter the National league."...ANOTHER CRUCIAL TILT: Lambeau regards the Packer-Bear game of 1925, played here, as the next crucial game. With eight minutes to play against an all-powerful Bear team, the Packers had the ball, last down, on the visitors' six-yard line. "The men's faces showed that they though they could score," continued the coach, "and we decided to try for a touchdown rather than the safer goal kick, which would have tied the score at 10 to 10. Charlie Mathys faked to the fullback and tossed a touchdown pass to Lewellen, defeating the Bears. Another important game was the 1928 engagement against the Bears at Chicago, when twelve Packers were battered through sixty minutes of play, to win out by 16 to 6. You can't disregard that 1929 game at New York, when the western clubs of the National league were fighting to remain in the league. Both the Giants and Packers were undefeated, but Green Bay was crippled, with the veterans Red Dunn and Eddie Kotal on the bench. Eleven men played almost the entire game, there being but one substitution at guard near the end, and the Packers rode through for a 20 to 6 victory. One week later they crushed the Bears, 26 to 0, at Chicago to win the national professional championship. Again this year is the league situation crucial. The circuit wants to function with eight teams instead of nine, permitting home and home schedules totaling 14 games for each club. Green Bay must not be the team to be eliminated. There never was a time when the Packers were more greatly in need of their fans' support."