- 1949 NFL Championship Game
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1949 NFL Championship Game Philadelphia Eagles Los Angeles Rams 14 0 1 2 3 4 Total Philadelphia Eagles 0 7 7 0 14 Los Angeles Rams 0 0 0 0 0 Date December 18, 1949 Stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum City Los Angeles, CA Attendance 27,980 TV/Radio in the United States TV Network ABC TV Announcers Harry Wismer, Red Grange Timeline Previous game Next game 1948 1950 The 1949 National Football League championship game was the 17th annual title game for the NFL. It was played on December 18, 1949 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The game is remembered for the driving rain that caused the field to become a mud pit. The attendance for the game was 27,980.
The game featured the Eastern Division champion Philadelphia Eagles (11-1), who were also the defending NFL champions, against the Los Angeles Rams (8-2-2), winners of the Western Division. This was the first NFL title game played in Los Angeles. The Rams had last appeared in a title game in 1945 when the franchise was still in Cleveland.
- First Quarter
- No Scoring
- Second Quarter
- Phil- Pihos 31 yard pass from Tommy Thompson (Patton kick) 7-0 PHI
- Third Quarter
- Phil-Skladany 2 yard block punt return (Patton kick) 14-0 PHI
- Fourth Quarter
- No Scoring
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1949Succeeded by
1950 NFL Championship GamePhiladelphia Eagles 1949 NFL Champions Neill Armstrong | Walt Barnes | Chuck Bednarik | Russ Craft | Otis Douglas | Jack Ferrante | Mario Giannelli | John Green | Dick Humbert | Mike Jarmoluk | Bucko Kilroy | Ben Kish | Vic Lindskog | Jay MacDowell | Bill Mackrides | John Magee | Duke Maronic | Pat McHugh | Joe Muha | Jack Myers | Jim Parmer | Cliff Patton | Pete Pihos | Hal Prescott | Bosh Pritchard | Frank Reagan | George Savitsky | Clyde Scott | Vic Sears | Leo Skladany | Tommy Thompson | Steve Van Buren | Al Wistert | Alex Wojciechowicz | Frank Ziegler
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2 – Dates in the list denote the season, not the calendar year in which the championship game was played. For instance, Super Bowl XLI was played in 2007, but was the championship for the 2006 season.Categories:- Philadelphia Eagles postseason
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