The Archive · 1938

Increasing Attendance

Attendance records for single games were broken by five clubs. The Giants-Redskins battle drew 58285, largest crowd ever to see any kind of football game at the Polo Grounds. The Bears-Green, Bay game at Wrigley Field set a new mark of 44977. Other records were 34000 for the Redskins-Green Bay game at Washington; 21,311 for the Detroit-Green Bay game at Detroit; 17,553 for the Green Bay-Detroit game at Detroit. All of these were capacity crowds.

Can Storck, vice president and treasurer of the National league, reported, "the league experienced the greatest financial year in history.

The success of professional football does not mean that it will attempt to vie with the collegiate brand. Instead, the professionals are making their own fans, a different type than the collegiate spectator. The professional fan wants action, free-scoring and wide-open play and the coaches in the National league cater to him by neglecting the defence and steessing the attack.—United Press.

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