CONTENT OF PILLARS OF THE NFL BY PATRICK MCCASKEY OF THE CHICAGO BEARS

PILLARS BOOK

This post was published in the front matter of  Pillars of the NFL by Patrick McCaskey and is Copyright Sporting Chance Press. The book is divided into 10 Chapters with each coach receiving coverage of his own football life as illustrated below for Coach Halas:

Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . v
The Ten Commandments of Football. . . . . . . . . vii
George Halas . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Early Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
University of Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
World War I Service . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
New York Yankees . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Back to Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
 Professional Football Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Staleys in 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Professional Football Team Owner . .  . . . . . . . . . 16
Chicago Staleys’ 1921 Season . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . 16
Chicago Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . 17
1922 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1923 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1924 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Magnificent Red Grange . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 19
1925-1928 Seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Bears and Stock Market Crash in 1929 . . .  . . . . . 22
Papa’s Bears in the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1930 and 1931 Seasons . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1932 Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1933 Season and Championship . . .  . . . . . . . . . . 23
1935 and 1936 Seasons . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1937 Championship Challenge .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1938 and 1939 Seasons . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Stunning the Nation n . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1940 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1941 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1942 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1943 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1944-1945 Seasons . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Bears in 1947-1949 . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Bears in the 1950s . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Bears in the 1960s . . . . . . . .  . . .  . . . .. . . . . . . . . 36
1963 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1964-1967 Seasons . .. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Finks Era . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Papa Bear’s Last Run at the Championship  . . . . . 42
Halas’s Contributions to the Game . . . .. . . . . . . . . 43
George Halas Timeline . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . 46