* 1895 – George Halas, American NFL co-founder ( d. 1983 )

The coin toss ceremony featured Pro Football Hall of Famer and longtime Chicago Bears owner / head coach George Halas.

The pregame festivities, which paid tribute to George Halas, featured the University of Florida Fightin ' Gator Marching Band and the Florida State University Marching Chiefs.

* February 2 – George Halas, American football player, coach, and co-founder of the National Football League ( d. 1983 )

They appeared in the 1919 Tournament East-West football game again, one year later, losing by a 17-0 score to a Great Lakes Naval Station team that included future football legends George Halas, Paddy Driscoll and Jimmy Conzelman.

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

Ditka was unimpressed, as was Bears owner and founder George Halas.

With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football.

* October 31 – death of George Halas, Chicago Bears founder and coach

The team wound up playing one of its final two " home " games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise's only win occurred — over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, in front of an estimated 3, 000 fans on Thanksgiving Day.

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.

Despite the long-time backing of Bears founder George Halas, Steelers founder Art Rooney and, more recently, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL ’ s other owners, led, not surprisingly, by the Cardinals, still continue to vote it down ( 30-2 ).

The team did not return after World War II ; instead, George Halas took what was left of the team and split it into the Newark Bombers and the Akron Bears.

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.

Also at this meeting, a membership fee of $ 100 per team was established, however George Halas stated that none of the charter teams ever paid it.

It was at this meeting that Chicago Bears owner, George Halas, suggested that the APFA be renamed the NFL.

However Red's agent, Grange's services, his agent, C. C. " Cash and Carry " Pyle challenged the Bears owner George Halas in 1926, by stating that Red's contract was owned by himself, and not Halas.

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.

* George Halas

The Independents lost only to the Hammond Pros, led by George Halas in 1919.

After he missed the Olympics cut, Berwanger and Bears ' owner George Halas were unable to reach an agreement on salary ; Berwanger was requesting $ 15, 000 and Halas ' final offer was $ 13, 500.

Chicago Bears owner George Halas introduced Schramm to Clint Murchison, Jr., who had tried to bring the NFL to Dallas several times in the past.

Ohio State finished the season with a 10-2 record, and George was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American and won the Heisman Trophy in the closest vote in the history of the award at the time, beating the University of Nebraska's Tommie Frazier by 264 votes.

It started as an East-versus-West format, where the George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions from the East would play the Abbott Cup champions from the West.

Other NHLers hailing from Flin Flon include Ken Baird, Ken Baumgartner, Matt Davidson, Kim Davis, Dean Evason, Al Hamilton, Ted Hampson ( who was the second player to ever receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy ), Gerry Hart, Ron Hutchinson, George Konik, Ray Maluta, Dunc McCallum, Eric Nesterenko, Mel Pearson, Reid Simpson, David Struch and Ernie Wakely.

Ron Lancaster won the Jeff Nicklin Memorial Trophy as the Western Conference's most outstanding player while George Reed, receiver Hugh Campbell and four other Riders were named league all-stars, the most from any team that year.

He received the George Parsons Trophy as the most sportsmanlike player of the tournament.

Other cricketers known to have died as a result of on-field injuries in a first-class fixture after being hit while batting: George Summers of Nottinghamshire on the head at Lord's in 1870, Abdul Aziz, the Karachi wicket-keeper, over the heart in the 1958-59 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, and Ian Folley of Lancashire ( playing for Whitehaven ), in the face in 1993.

George Richardson Memorial Trophy

Rovers lost in the final of the Yorkshire Cup 7-8 to Leeds but won the Premiership Trophy beating Hull 11-7. International full back George Fairbairn was signed from Wigan suring the summer of 1981 for a ten world record fee of £ 72. 500.

While at Victoria Park, he was awarded the Arnold Trophy for excellence in academics and athletics, donated by George Arnold whose sons had been excellent track & field, football and basketball athletes.

* September 29 – Following the Schneider Trophy success, Flt Lt. George Stainforth in S. 6B serial S1596 breaks the 400 mph air speed record barrier at 407. 5 mph ( 655. 67 km / h ).

He was voted the George S. Halas Trophy in 1971 as the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year as awarded by the Newspaper Enterprise Association ( NEA ).

In 1932 and 1935 this team won the George Richardson Memorial Trophy as Eastern Canada's Junior " A " champions.

Under the management of Max Silverman, this team won the George Richardson Memorial Trophy in 1932 and 1935, as Eastern Canadian champions.

George Richardson Memorial Trophy

Niagara Falls won the right to play for the Cup by defeating the Toronto Neil McNeil Maroons for the OHA championship, and the Espanola Eagles to win the George Richardson Memorial Trophy as eastern Canadian representatives.

: George Richardson Memorial Trophy

George Richardson Memorial Trophy

: George Richardson Memorial Trophy

* 1953-54: George H. Wilkinson Trophy, awarded to the IHL's leading scorer

" Though he was often double teamed, he finished the season with six sacks, and was voted the NFL Defensive Player of the Year by NEA ( and awarded the George S. Halas Trophy ).

In Montreal, Jordan established himself on a successful Impact team that won the inaugural Canadian Championship in 2008, posting two clean sheets and receiving the George Gross Memorial Trophy as tournament MVP.

* George Gross Memorial Trophy: 2008

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 ).

George Burnett was voted the OHL Coach of the Year in the 1990 – 91 and 1991 – 92 seasons, winning the Matt Leyden Trophy in only his first and second full seasons as a head coach in the OHL.

Progress though the National Cup provided interest early in the season, and the Final was reached with Teeside Mohawks providing the opposition at the EIS Sheffield, however it was Raiders who walked away with the George Williams Trophy after a close 89-82 victory.