Football Friday: Baltimore Colts at Green Bay Packers, 10/8/61
Another trip to the Life photo archives has yielded another great set of classic NFL photographs. These were snapped by Robert W. Kelley at a game played between the Green Bay Packers and the visiting Baltimore Colts at Lambeau Field -- then known as New City Stadium -- on October 8, 1961.
Tracking down the date for this game was a little tricky, as the Life photo pages provide no details. How I figured it out was by using the visual clues.
Weeb Ewbank is pictured on the Baltimore sideline. He coached the Colts from 1954-1962.
One of the Baltimore players pictured is wearing jersey #34, and he appears to be a back of some kind. Only one player from this era was a back and wore #34 -- Joe "The Jet" Perry. Perry was a fullback in Baltimore for the '61 and '62 seasons only.
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