Nfl championship game 1966

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Self - Dallas Cowboys Fullback. Self - Dallas Cowboys Flanker. Self - Green Bay Packers Fullback. With just left, the game appeared to be slipping out of reach for the Cowboys. However, defensive tackle Bob Lilly kept his team in the game by blocking Chandler's extra point attempt, keeping the deficit at 2 scores, 34—20, rather than 3. Dallas started their comeback attempt on the ensuing drive. Faced with 3rd down and 20, Meredith threw a yard touchdown pass to tight end Frank Clarke , making the score 34— Desperately trying to run out the clock with their ensuing possession, Green Bay started out with an yard reception by Fleming on the Packers But on the next play, Starr was sacked for an 8-yard loss by linebacker Dave Edwards.

Townes broke up a screen pass on the next play, and then Taylor was stuffed for a loss. Now faced with 4th down, a heavy rush from the Dallas defense caused Chandler's punt to go just 17 yards, giving the Cowboys the ball on the Green Bay yard line with remaining.

A yard catch by Clarke and a 4-yard run by Perkins advanced the ball to the Green Bay yard line. Then a pass interference penalty on safety Tom Brown gave the Cowboys a first down at the Packer 2-yard line. Halfback Dan Reeves gained a yard on first down. A crucial mistake on a false start by Jim Boeke penalized the Cowboys back to the Green Bay 6 nullifying a play where a wide-open Pettis Norman had dropped a pass in the end zone , and Reeves then dropped a pass in the flat on second down.

Reeves had been scratched in the eye on his previous run but did not come out of the game in favor of rookie Walt Garrison despite clouded vision, another mental error. Meredith found tight end Pettis Norman on third down to bring Dallas back to the two-yard line, the end making the catch on his knees.

On fourth down, the Cowboys attempted a rollout pass. No one on the Cowboys noticed that end Bob Hayes was in the goal line offense instead of Frank Clarke, who was typically used for better blocking. Packer linebacker Dave Robinson recognized the play from films, brushed Hayes aside, stormed into the Cowboy backfield and enveloped Meredith. Somehow Meredith got a wobbly sidearm toss away, but Tom Brown intercepted the pass in the end zone as the intended receiver, Hayes, was surrounded by Packers defenders.

Starr completed 19 of 28 passes for yards and 4 touchdowns, with no interceptions, though he was sacked five times. His quarterback rating for the game was a stellar Dale caught 5 passes for yards and a score. Pitts led the Packers in rushing with 66 yards and caught a TD pass. Perkins rushed for yards and a score, while Reeves rushed for 47 yards, caught 4 passes for 77 yards, and scored a touchdown. With the win, the Packers earned their tenth NFL championship; it was their second in a row and fourth in six seasons under Lombardi, in his eighth year as Green Bay's head coach.

This was the Packers' only post-season win against the Cowboys in the Dallas area until the season , beating them in another tooth and nail game to advance to the NFC Championship Game. Sunday, January 1, Kickoff: p. The NFL had six game officials in ; the line judge was added a season earlier in and the side judge arrived twelve years later in Bryan Bartlett Starr was a professional American football quarterback and coach.

He played college football at the University of Alabama, and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round of the NFL draft, where he played for them until Starr is the only quarterback in NFL history to lead a team to three consecutive league championships — As the Packers' head coach, he was less successful, compiling a 52—76—3.

Although a single championship game between conference winners was the current format for the league, a tie in the Western Conference standings between the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts necessitated an unscheduled tiebreaker playoff, the first in the league in seven years and the first in the Western conference since A coin flip decided the home team.

The teams had played twice during the regular season and Green Bay had won both: 20—17 in Milwaukee on September 26, and 42—27 in Baltimore on December The league expanded to 15 teams with the addition of the Atlanta Falcons, making a bye necessary each week for one team.

Boyd Hamilton Dowler is a former professional football player, a wide receiver in the National Football League. He played 12 seasons from to , 11 with the Green Bay Packers and one with the Washington Redskins.

He played from to , and is best known for his seven receptions for yards and two touchdowns, holding the first touchdown, in the first Super Bowl in The team was founded in by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, and for the next two years played against local teams in Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan.

The final score was Green Bay 34, Dallas The seasoned Green Bay Packers, defending champions of the season, were favored by a touchdown over the talented, but young Cowboys team, who had no players with championship experience and only one player over 30, linebacker Chuck Howley. The game was expected to be a shootout, and as wary as the Packers were of Cowboys wide-out Bob Hayes , the fastest man in football at the time, Packers Coach Vince Lombardi made the decision before the game not to put double-coverage on the former Olympic sprinter.

It proved to be a good gamble, as Herb Adderley and Bob Jeter held Hayes to only one reception for one yard. Green Bay took an early lead on two first-quarter scores; a yard touchdown pass from Bart Starr to Elijah Pitts and a yard return by Jim Grabowski of a Mel Renfro fumble on the ensuing kickoff, all before the Cowboys' first play.

Before the end of the first quarter, though, they tied the score with two touchdowns. Starr broke the tie in the second quarter with a bomb to Carroll Dale over the head of Warren Livingston. After Dallas had cut the lead to in the third quarter, Starr's fourth touchdown pass of the game gave the Packers a lead with left in the game, but the Cowboys responded with a yard touchdown pass from Don Meredith to Frank Clarke. Dallas advanced to the Green Bay yard line on their next drive, when a pass interference penalty gave the Cowboys a first down at the Packer 2-yard line.

Dan Reeves gained a yard on first down. A false start put the Cowboys back on the Green Bay 6, and halfback Dan Reeves dropped a pass in the flat on second down. Meredith found tight end Pettis Norman on third down to bring Dallas back to the two-yard line. On fourth down, the Cowboys attempted a rollout pass. Packers' linebackk Dave Robinson penetrated on the play, and enveloped Meredith. Somehow Meredith got the ball away, but Green Bay's Tom Brown intercepted the pass in the end zone as the intended receiver, Hayes, was surrounded by Packers defenders.