Halas holds the team record for coaching the most seasons with 40 and for having the most career victories of 324.

Ditka is the closest Bears coach to Halas, with 112 career victories.

He shares the distinction with rival George Halas of the Chicago Bears of coaching his team to the most NFL championships, with six.

Meanwhile, George Halas and the Chicago Staleys, manage to capture second place in the AFPA in 1921, with their only loss of the season against Buffalo.

More plausible is a theory that George Halas wanted to move the Decatur Staleys to Chicago but because they already had the Tigers and the Cardinals, he would have had a very difficult time moving into a city with two teams in the league.

In 1919, the team starred George Halas at wide receiver ; Halas left for the Decatur Staleys -- the future Chicago Bears -- the next year and remained with that franchise as a player, coach and owner until his death in 1983.

Along with being the winningest coach in Vikings history, Grant is the third winningest professional football coach, behind Don Shula and George Halas, with a combined 290 wins in the NFL and CFL.

Allen had been out of coaching since 1977 ; he had been a candidate for the vacant head coaching position with the Chicago Bears a year earlier, but Bears owner George Halas had never forgiven Allen for defecting to the Rams in 1965.

Upon starting with Halas, Luckman mastered an offense that revolutionized football, and became the basis of most modern professional offenses.

After he played in the College All-Star game in August 1940, George Halas asked him not to return to Los Angeles immediately because Halas wanted to sign him to a contract with the Chicago Bears.

Marshall, along with George Halas, suggested two major rules changes designed to open up the game and increase scoring which were subsequently adopted.

* Marshall was known for a " love-hate " relationship with fellow NFL icon George Halas, the Bears ' owner / coach.

Poet František Halas published a poem with verse about " ringing bell of betrayal ".

He signed with the NFL's Chicago Bears the day after his last college game ; player / manager George Halas agreed to a contract for a 19-game barnstorming tour which earned Grange a salary and share of gate receipts that amounted to $ 100, 000, during an era when typical league salaries were less than $ 100 / game.

On a team which included Paddy Driscoll and Jimmy Conzelman, Halas scored a receiving touchdown and returned an intercepted pass 77 yards in a 17-0 win ; the team was also rewarded with their military discharges.

After one year with the Pros ( also known as the All-Stars ), Halas moved to Decatur, Illinois to take a position with the A. E. Staley Company, a starch manufacturer.

In the late 1930s, Halas — with University of Chicago coach Clark Shaughnessy — perfected the T-formation system to create a revolutionary and overwhelming style of play which drove the Bears to an astonishing 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

Halas and Shaughnessy had created a revolutionary concept with the T-formation offense.

Looking for a quarterback to run his new offense, Halas was particularly impressed with Sid Luckman, a passing star at Columbia University.

Halas was not satisfied with other players who succeeded Luckman under center.

He was also selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round ( 32nd overall ) of the 1960 NFL Draft, after Bears owner George Halas made the pick to help ensure that the expansion Cowboys got off to a solid start.

He capped off a stellar 1985 season earning the George S. Halas Trophy for having been voted the NEA's co-NFL Defensive Player of the Year ( along with Andre Tippett ).

Wilson and Adams are the two of only three men who have owned a Professional Football franchise continuously for fifty years ( George Halas, who owned the Chicago Bears from 1920 until his death in 1983, is the third ).

The manor and town was known as Hala ( from the Anglo-Saxon word " halh ", meaning nook or remote valley ), until it was gifted by King Henry II to Welsh Prince David Owen and became known as Halas Owen.

After ten seasons, Halas stepped back from the game in 1930, retiring as a player and leaving the sidelines as coach ; but he remained the team's owner, becoming sole owner in 1932.

Halas received her Bachelor's degree from La Salle University in 1980.

Halas has received a " Cancer Innovator " from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs of the US Department of Defence.

Bears owner George Halas prevented Gagne from pursuing both football and wrestling ( likely due to former Bear Bronko Nagurski having moonlighted as a professional wrestler during the height of his NFL career ), and forced Gagne to make a choice.

The heating system, made by General Electric, cost $ 80, 000 and was bought from the nephew of George Halas, George Halas Jr. On the sidelines before the game, some Dallas players believed that Lombardi had purposely removed power to the heating coils.

The George Halas Trophy should not be confused with the Newspaper Enterprise Association's George S. Halas Trophy which was awarded to the NFL's defensive player of the year from 1966 to 1996 or the Pro Football Writers Association's George S. Halas Courage Award.

In reality, Jim Dooley was the head coach at that time, as Halas had retired from the position following the 1968 season.

Layne was offered $ 77, 000 to play for the Colts, but George Halas " sweet talked " him into signing with the Bears.

Hearing of Sid Luckman's exploits as a single-wing tailback at Columbia University, Chicago Bears owner and coach George Halas believed Luckman had the ability to become an effective T-formation quarterback, and traveled to New York to watch him play.

Afterward, Halas played minor league and semi-pro baseball, eventually earning a promotion to the New York Yankees, where he played 12 games as an outfielder in 1919.

Players arrive in one of: New Halas, Hate's Envy in Darklight Woods, " The Nursery " in Greater Faydark and Timorous Deep in Kunark, and then move to one of Six cities, New Halas ( Neutral ) Qeynos or Kelethin ( the ' good ' cities ) or Freeport, Neriak, or Gorowyn ( the ' evil ' cities ).

Evil classes, such as the Shadowknight, are only available in Freeport, Neriak, or Gorowyn, while good classes, such as the Paladin, are available in Qeynos, Kelethin or New Halas.

George Halas of the NFL Chicago Bears was the owner of the Chicago Bruins, and department store magnate Max Rosenblum, a part owner of the NFL's Cleveland Bulldogs, financed the Cleveland Rosenblums.

Halas rebutted that the second game was played on December 4 ( well before teams in Illinois typically stopped playing games in those days ), and the Staleys played two more games against top opponents, the Canton Bulldogs and Chicago Cardinals after the second Buffalo game ( though, at the time of the Buffalo-Chicago matchup, Chicago had played three fewer games than Buffalo ).

After a moment of silence for Halas, Singer Barry Manilow performed the national anthem.

The show was based on original artwork by British illustrator Nick Price, original scripts and ideas by Jeffrey O ' Kelly, and television scripts for each episode by Richard Carpenter and John Halas.

Pyle then approached Halas to demand for Grange a generous salary and one-third ownership of the Bears.

After gaining an invitation to Luckman's tiny apartment for a dinner which Luckman's wife Estelle prepared, Halas produced a contract for $ 5, 500 ($ today ) which Luckman immediately signed.

In his book, The Chicago Bears ; An Illustrated History, Richard Whittington reports a story that Marshall's wife, often the audience for Marshall's complaints about Halas, said something to him about, " that awful George Halas ".

A whole new alignment was built, greatly smoothing the S-curve ( later named, in a fortuitous coincidence, for Chicago Bears founder George Halas ).

He received a supporting actor Emmy Award for his performance as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in Brian's Song, and was twice nominated for his starring role in the 1980s comedy series, Crazy Like a Fox.

In 1915, Halas worked temporarily for Western Electric and was planning on being on the Eastland.

He served as a company sales representative, an outfielder on the company-sponsored baseball team, and the player-coach of the company-sponsored football team, Halas selected his alma mater's colors — orange and navy blue — for the team's uniforms.

In 1925, Halas persuaded Illinois star player Red Grange to join the Bears ; it was a significant step in establishing both the respectability and popularity of the league, which had previously been viewed as a refuge for less admirable players.

The lure of the field was too much, however, as Halas returned in 1933 to coach the Bears for another ten seasons.

Although Luckman was a single wing tailback, Halas felt he was the perfect quarterback for this offense.