The 1968 Green Bay Packers (6-7-1)

September 15: Green Bay Packers (1-0) 30, Philadelphia Eagles (0-1) 13

(GREEN BAY) - Phil Bengtson started the 49th National Football League season with an almost impossible task, replacing Vince Lombardi as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. But Bengtson, the guy who'll get the blame if the Packers don't win it all again, didn't seem to have any problems when Green Bay opened against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Packers were 17-point favorites - and drubbed the Eagles, 30-13. The Packers, who weren't too impressive when they lost two exhibition games, had the old Lombardi touch in the game for real under Bengston. Bart Starr hit on 14 of 18 passes for 230 yards and two first half touchdowns. And a 50-yard kickoff return by Herb Adderley, Bob Jeter's interception and rookie Francis Winkler's recovery of an Eagle onside kick kept the Packers rolling.

PHILADELPHIA - 3 3 0 7 - 13

GREEN BAY - 7 14 6 3 - 30

1st - PHIL - Sam Baker, 27-yard field goal PHILADELPHIA 3-0

1st - GB - Grabowski, 6-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-3

2nd - GB - Dale, 12-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 14-3

2nd - PHIL - Baker, 17-yard field goal GREEN BAY 14-6

2nd - GB - Dowler, 55-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 21-6

3rd - GB - Kramer, 17-yard field goal GREEN BAY 24-6

3rd - GB - Kramer, 22-yard field goal GREEN BAY 27-6

4th - PHIL - Gary Ballman, 2-yard pass from King Hill (Baker kick) GB 27-13

4th - GB - Kramer, 35-yard field goal GREEN BAY 30-13

September 22: Minnesota Vikings (2-0) 26, Green Bay Packers (1-1) 13

(MILWAUKEE) - Give the Minnesota Vikings two inches and they'll take 74 yards—and the Green Bay Packers. The Packers got a taste of such ingratitude when the improving Vikings used those inches to spring the biggest upset of the young season by upending the world champions 26-13. The Vikings decided they'd like those two inches in the third quarter after Green Bay had scored and cut Minnesota's lead to 16-6. The Packers, their momentum growing, had Minnesota stopped, fourth down and two inches needed for a first down on the Vikings' 26 yard line. But Coach Bud Grant decided to try for it and quarterback Joe Kapp crept two inches for a first down, and then drove Minnesota 74 yards for a back-breaking touchdown. Minnesota, which has beaten the Packers four of their last nine meetings, built a 16-0 lead by halftime on a safety and Bill Brown's two scoring runs, but the issue still was in doubt when Kapp inched his way to the vital first down.

MINNESOTA - 7 9 10 0 - 26

GREEN BAY - 0 0 6 7 - 13

1st - MINN - Bill Brown, 1-yard run (Fred Cox kick) MINNESOTA 7-0

2nd - MINN - Brown, 10-yard run (Cox kick) MINNESOTA 14-0

2nd - MINN - Safety, Jim Marshall tackled Bart Starr in the end zone MINN 16-0

3rd - GB - Starr, 10-yard run (Kick failed) MINNESOTA 16-6

3rd - MINN - Clint Jones, 4-yard run (Cox kick) MINNESOTA 23-6

3rd - MINN - Cox, 29-yard field goal MINNESOTA 26-6

4th - GB - Dale, 7-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) MINNESOTA 26-13

September 29: Detroit Lions (2-1) 23, Green Bay Packers (1-2) 17

(GREEN BAY) - "Vince Lombardi, where have you gone? Green Bay turns its lonely eyes to you." Those aren't exactly the Simon and Garfunkel lyrics but it had to be the refrain of the moment in Green Bay where Lombardi's NFL dynasty seems to be in the danger of crumbling. Lombardi kicked himself upstairs at the end of last season with the cry, "the history of the Green Bay Packers is in the future." But right now it seems to be in the past. The Packers lost their second straight game and slipped to third place in the Central Division with a 1-2 record when they were beaten by the Detroit Lions, 23-17. The brilliant passing of Bill Munson, the running of Mel Farr and three interceptions by Lem Barney paced the Lions to the upset victory. Munson completed 15 of 22 passes for 194 yards and two touchdowns. Both passes went to Billy Gambrell, including one with less than 2 minutes left in the game that snapped the tie.

DETROIT - 0 7 10 6 - 23

GREEN BAY - 10 0 0 7 - 17

1st - GB - Dale, 63-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

1st - GB - Kramer, 38-yard field goal GREEN BAY 10-0

2nd - DT - Billy Gambrell, 6-yd pass fr Bill Munson (Jerry DePoyster kick) GB 10-7

3rd - DET - DePoyster, 30-yard field goal TIED 10-10

3rd - DET - Mel Farr, 3-yard run (DePoyster kick) DETROIT 17-10

4th - GB - Dale, 35-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) TIED 17-17

4th - DET - Gambrell, 12-yard pass from Munson (Kick failed) DETROIT 23-17

October 6: Green Bay Packers (2-2) 38, Atlanta Falcons (0-4) 7

(ATLANTA) - The Green Bay Packers, stung by two straight losses, overcame a stubborn Atlanta defense for 21 points in the third quarter and whipped the Falcons 38-7. The loss spoiled Norm Van Brocklin's debut as the Falcon coach. Atlanta played the Packers on nearly even terms in the first half and a 21-yard field goal by Chuck Mercein with four seconds left in the half gave Green Bay only a 10-7 halftime lead. But the Packers took advantage of Atlanta errors in the third quarter to score two of their three touchdowns, and strong running by Donny Anderson produced a third. Anderson gained 18 and 10 yards on a drive shortly after the half and also caught a 30-yard pass from Bart Starr for a first down before scoring from 11 yards out. After the kickoff, Falcon quarterback Randy Johnson fumbled attempting to pass and the Packers had a first down at the Atlanta two. Starr completed a one-yard pass to Marv Fleming for the score. After Ray Nitschke intercepted a Johnson pass at the Falcon 43, Starr completed a 19-yard pass to Elijah Pitts and an eight-yarder to Travis Williams, before tossing 23 yards to Claudis James for the score. Anderson ran for 101 yards. James scored twice, the only touchdowns of his NFL career. The Packers rolled up 470 yards in offense.

GREEN BAY - 7 3 21 7 - 38

ATLANTA - 0 7 0 0 - 7

1st - GB - Dowler, 9-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

2nd - ATL - Perry Lee Dunn, 1-yard run (Bob Etter kick) TIED 7-7

2nd - GB - Mercein, 21-yard field goal GREEN BAY 10-7

3rd - GB - Anderson, 11-yard run (Mercein kick) GREEN BAY 17-7

3rd - GB - Fleming, 1-yard pass from Starr (Mercein kick) GREEN BAY 24-7

3rd - GB - James, 23-yard pass from Starr (Mercein kick) GREEN BAY 31-7

4th - GB - James, 12-yard pass from Anderson (Mercein kick) GREEN BAY 38-7

October 13: Los Angeles Rams (5-0) 16, Green Bay Packers (2-3) 14

(MILWAUKEE) - Things are different in the NFL this season - so different that it's the Green Bay Packers who conduct the post mortems and the other guys who shrug and say "that's football." Green Bay defensive star Herb Adderley held the postmortem and offensive end Jack Snow of the Los Angeles Rams was the non-committal gent following the Rams' 16-14 victory. The Rams won the game on Bruce Gossett's 27-yard field goal with 55 seconds left after a pass interference penalty against Adderley put the ball on the Green Bay 25. "If I had hit him. I'd be the first to admit it" said Adderley. "The official who called it was about 15 yards away. The most surprised guy in the park must have been Snow. He thought he interfered with me." But Snow didn't act the least bit surprised about the key call which helped the Rams remain unbeaten and tied with the Colts for first place in the Coastal Division. Snow pointed out that the call "was a judgment play and hard for any official to call."

LOS ANGELES - 0 3 10 3 - 16

GREEN BAY - 0 7 0 7 - 14

2nd - LA - Bruce Gossett, 22-yard field goal LOS ANGELES 3-0

2nd - GB - Anderson, 4-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-3

3rd - LA - Willie Ellison, 1-yard run (Gossett kick) LOS ANGELES 10-7

3rd - LA - Gossett, 26-yard field goal LOS ANGELES 13-7

4th - GB - T.Brown, 52-yard punt return (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 14-13

4th - LA - Gossett, 27-yard field goal LOS ANGELES 16-14

October 20: Green Bay Packers (2-3-1) 14, Detroit Lions (3-2-1) 14 (Tie)

(DETROIT) - Sorearmed Bart Starr, in for his only play of the game, late in the fourth quarter, pitched a three-yard scoring pass to Boyd Dowler to give the Green Bay Packers a 14-14 tie as the fumbling Detroit Lions squandered a two-touchdown lead. Starr, who missed last week's game and did not start Sunday because of a sore bicep in his right arm, replaced shaken- up Zeke Bratkowski after Green Bay's No. 2 quarterback had run 12 yards to the Detroit three. The Packers got the ball when Willie Davis recovered a fumble by Lions' quarterback Bill Munson on the Detroit 40. A desperate Green Bay attempt to unknot the game with less than a minute to play broke down when Dowler caught a pass from Bratkowski on the Detroit 22 and fumbled, with linebacker Paul Nanmoff diving over the ball on his 22. Munson faded back on first down on the fifth play of the game and unfurled a 60-yard scoring pass to fleet doublecovered flanker Earl McCullouch. Just 6:28 in to the game, exactly four minutes after the first touchdown, McCullouch ran a post pattern to the left in the end zone and Munson hit him with a rope-like 11-yard scoring strike after Herb Adderley had fumbled the Lions' kickoff on his own 29-yard line. But the Lions had three clutch fumbles to halt any further scoring opportunities and Bratkowski celebrated his 37th birthday by bringing the Packers back to life in the third quarter. Francis Winkler recovered a Lem Barney fumbled punt on the Detroit 14 and three plays later Carroll Dale grabbed a 14-yard Bratkowski pass to give Green Bay the first score.

GREEN BAY - 0 0 7 7 - 14

DETROIT - 14 0 0 0 - 14

1st - DT - Earl McCullouch, 60-yd pass f Bill Munson (Jerry DePoyster kick) DT 7-0

1st - DET - McCullouch, 11-yard pass from Munson (DePoyster kick) DET 14-0

3rd - GB - Dale, 14-yard pass from Bratkowski (Mercein kick) DETROIT 14-7

4th - GB - Dowler, 3-yard pass from Starr (Mercein kick) TIED 14-14

October 28: Green Bay Packers (3-3-1) 28, Dallas Cowboys (6-1) 17

(DALLAS) - Take it from the unbeaten Cowboys and former Green Bay coach, Vince Lombardi, there's absolutely nothing wrong with the world champions. With Monday night's 28-17 victory over Dallas before a national television audience, the Packers shot into a tie for the Central lead. Bart Starr, who only last week was on the sidelines for most of the game with a pulled bicep muscle, rifled four touchdown passes and completed 17 of 25 tosses for 260 yards. He hit Marv Fleming on scoring tosses of three and 32 yards and tossed for touchdowns 26 yards to Carroll Dale and five yards to Boyd Dowler. Dallas QB Don Meredith, who suffered a broken nose when he was tackled by Willie Davis, threw touchdown passes of 18 yards to Bob Hayes and 27 yards to Craig Baynham. He had three throws intercepted and completed but 13 of 30 for 219 yards.

GREEN BAY - 0 7 14 7 - 28

DALLAS - 7 3 0 7 - 17

1st - DAL - Bob Hayes, 18-yard pass from Don Meredith (Mike Clark kick) DAL 7-0

2nd - DAL - Clark, 16-yard field goal DALLAS 10-0

2nd - GB - Dale, 26-yard pass from Starr (Mann kick) DALLAS 10-7

3rd - GB - Fleming, 3-yard pass from Starr (Mann kick) GREEN BAY 14-10

3rd - GB - Fleming, 32-yard pass from Starr (Mann kick) GREEN BAY 21-10

4th - DAL - Craig Baynham, 27-yard pass from Meredith (Clark kick) GB 21-17

4th - GB - Dowler, 5-yard pass from Starr (Mann kick) GREEN BAY 28-17

November 3: Chicago Bears (4-4) 13, Green Bay Packers (3-4-1) 10

(GREEN BAY) - Mae Percival caught a free ride for his thrill of the week and the Green Bay Packers couldn't lift a finger as he kicked their teeth in. Pervical booted a 43-yard field goal on a rarely-invoked free kick with 26 seconds to play, giving the Chicago Bears a 13-10 victory over the struggling National Football League champs. The Packers, who had spent most of the afternoon chasing Gale Sayers up and down Lambeau Field, stood by helplessly as Percival kicked the winning three-pointer after Chicago Coach Vince Dooley went for the free kick option. An NFL rule permits a free kick, punt or placement, without opposition after one team makes a fair catch of a punt. So, when Cecil Turner fielded Donny Anderson's short punt on the Green Bay 43, Dooley called the shot - and Percival delivered. Sayers ran through the Packers for 205 yards - his biggest ground-gaining binge as a pro, but he almost wore goat horns after fumbling on the Chicago 39 midway in the final quarter with the game tied 10-10. Packer defensive back Herb Adderley grabbed the ball and raced to the 14, but the Bears held and Chuck Mercein's field goal attempt sailed wide. Minutes later, Percival was on target with his 11th field goal in 12 attempts in the Bears' last three games. He kicked a 10-yarder in the second period for a string of 10 without a miss, but had another three-point bid blocked by Lee Roy Caffey early in the fourth period.

CHICAGO - 0 3 7 3 - 13

GREEN BAY - 0 0 7 3 - 10

2nd - CHI - Mac Percival, 10-yard field goal CHICAGO 3-0

3rd - CHI - Virgil Carter, 2-yard run (Percival kick) CHICAGO 10-0

3rd - GB - Dale, 50-yard pass from Starr (Mercein kick) CHICAGO 10-7

4th - GB - Mercein, 19-yard field goal TIED 10-10

4th - CHI - Percival, 43-yard field goal CHICAGO 13-10

November 10: Minnesota Vikings (5-4) 14, Green Bay Packers (3-5-1) 10

(MINNESOTA) - Carl Eller blocked a field goal attempt and threw the block for the winning touchdown as the Minnesota Vikings held off three last-gasp Green Bay efforts for a 14-10 win. Eller, who also crunched quarterback Bart Starr to the ground three times for losses, blocked Mike Mercer's 25-yard field goal attempt with 10:04 to play in the game. Eller's block moved back the Packer line in the second period for Bill Brown, who plunged two yards for his second touchdown of the game. Eller, a 265-pound defensive end, was moved into the offensive line for the short yardage play. In the first period, Brown went over from the one and gave the Vikings a 7-3 lead. The fired-up Packers, down 14-3 at the half, stormed back to dominate the game offensively in the second half. The gutty Starr, thrown five times for losses of 40 yards, completed 12 of 19 passes for 118 yards. His passing set up Green Bay's only touchdown in the third period, a one-yard plunge by Donny Anderson. Green Bay, with Zeke Bratkowski at quarterback for the shaken up Starr, drove again in the fourth period to the Vikings 18 but Minnesota safety Paul Krause recovered Anderson's fumble. Then with about a minute to play, Earsell Mackbee scooped up a Green Bay fumble by Claudis James at the Minnesota 45 and ran it to the Green Bay 27, from where the Vikings let the clock run out. Minnesota, winning its first game at Metropolitann Stadium over the Packers, became the first team since 1964 to beat the Packers twice in one season. The game was played before a sellout crowd of 47,644, in 35-degree weather and occasional snow flurries.

GREEN BAY - 3 0 7 0 - 10

MINNESOTA - 7 7 0 0 - 14

1st - GB - Mercer, 32-yard field goal GREEN BAY 3-0

1st - MINN - Bill Brown, 1-yard run (Fred Cox kick) MINNESOTA 7-3

2nd - MINN - Brown, 2-yard run (Cox kick) MINNESOTA 14-3

3rd - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) MINNESOTA 14-10

November 17: Green Bay Packers (4-5-1) 29, New Orleans Saints (3-7) 7

(MILWAUKEE) - Tom Brown scooted 22 yards with a fumble for a touchdown and picked off a misdirected pass to lead Green Bay to an easy 29-7 victory over the New Orleans Saints. The victory, raising Green Bay's record to 4-5-1, renewed hopes that the Packers could have a shot at their fourth consecutive NFL championship. Tackle Ron Kostelnik recovered a Saints fumble to set up Green Bay's 38-yard field goal by Mike Mercer. Then Brown, a defensive back, went to work. Dave Robinson tipped the ball from the hands of Don McCall. Brown picked the ball up on the 22 and raced into the end zone. Brown set up the final Green Bay score in the fourth quarter as he hauled in a pass that had been batted into the air. Elijah Pitts converted the break into six points when he burst though the middle. The Packers' other two touchdowns were fueled by long passes from Bart Starr to Carroll Dale. The first bomb, covering 33 yards, ended on the New Orleans' one. Donny Anderson blasted over the goal on the next play. Dale and Starr collaborated again in the second period, this time on a 47-yard effort that ended in the end zone. New Orleans failed to get a first down until the second quarter. The Saints took over on their 48 and moved in for a touchdown eight plays later. The score was set up by a pass interference call on the one.

NEW ORLEANS - 0 7 0 0 - 7

GREEN BAY - 17 6 0 6 - 29

1st - GB - Mercer, 35-yard field goal GREEN BAY 3-0

1st - GB - T.Brown, 22-yard fumble return (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 10-0

1st - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 17-0

2nd - NO - Don McCall, 11-yard run (Charlie Durkee kick) GREEN BAY 17-7

2nd - GB - Dale, 47-yard pass from Starr (Kick failed) GREEN BAY 23-7

4th - GB - Pitts, 2-yard run (Kick failed) GREEN BAY 29-7

November 24: Green Bay Packers (5-5-1) 27, Washington Redskins (4-7) 7

(WASHINGTON) - The Green Bay Packers, turning to a vintage substitute for victory, have bounded back within reach of a fabled comeback in their try for a fourth straight title. Balding super sub Zeke Bratkowski brought Green Bay back to within half a game of the top in its division battle for a playoff berth as he passed the Packers to a 27-7 conquest of outclassed Washington. The veteran quarterback, who riddled the Redskins for 18 completions on 24 passes for 230 yards, said, '"There's only one statistic that counts—the win." The 37-year-old Bratkowski started in place of Bart Starr, who was sidelined with sore ribs, and completed eight straight passes to guide the Packers to two early touchdowns. He capped the triumph with a 47-yard pass to Donny Anderson, who broke away from three Redskins to score. For Bratkowski, who began his pro career back in 1954 about the same time Anderson was entering the fifth grade, the role of victorious reserve was almost routine. Nine times in the past three championship seasons the backup passer took over to steer the Packers to success in a game. Bart and Brat, Green Bay's interchangeable quarterbacks, plan their play together so that a sudden change in signal callers for the Packers is nearly as smooth as slipping a new part in a machine. The Packers' crushing defense aided by holding the Redskins without a first down for nearly 25 minutes, grabbing three fumbles, and giving up only 33 yards rushing all day.

GREEN BAY - 7 7 10 3 - 27

WASHINGTON - 0 7 0 0 - 7

1st - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

2nd - GB - Pitts, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 14-0

2nd - WA - Pat Richter, 2-yd pass fr Sonny Jurgensen (Charlie Gogolak kick) GB 14-7

3rd - GB - Anderson, 47-yard pass from Bratkowski (Mercer kick) GB 21-7

3rd - GB - Mercer, 29-yard field goal GREEN BAY 24-7

4th - GB - Mercer, 27-yard field goal GREEN BAY 27-7

December 1: San Francisco 49ers (6-5-1) 27, Green Bay Packers (5-6-1) 20

(SAN FRANCISCO) - John Brodie threw three touchdown passes - two in the fourth period to Bill Tucker - to lead a 27-20 San Francisco upset over the Green Bay Packers.The loss put the Packer at 5-6-1, a half-game behind Minnesota and Chicago in the National Football League's Central Division. Trailing 20-7 going into the last quarter, the 49ers struck for 20 points. Kermlt Alexander intercepted a Zeke Bratkowski pass on the Green Bay 40 and returned it to the 24. Brodie hit Tucker for 19 yards and a touchdown. With 10 minutes left, Brodie hit Dick Witcher for 22 yards, setting up a 41-yard scoring toss to Tucker. Tommy Davis' extra point kick provided a 21-20 lead. Davis padded the score with two more field goals, from 37 yards with 5:37 to go and from 13 yards with 53 seconds left. Trailing 10-0 in the second quarter, Brodie took the 49ers 90 yards in 11 plays, all on passes. He completed nine of them, hitting Clifton McNeil for 16 and a touchdown. Bart Starr, who passed the Packers to the 10-0 lead, left midway in the second quarter and did not return. Rookie Bill Stevens spelled Bratkowski briefly in the last four minutes. The Packers' scoring came on two plunges of one-yard each by Jim Grabowski and two field goals by Mike Mercer.

GREEN BAY - 7 3 10 0 - 20

SAN FRANCISCO - 0 7 0 20 - 27

1st - GB - Grabowski, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

2nd - GB - Mercer, 44-yard field goal GREEN BAY 10-0

2nd - SF - Clifton McNeil, 15-yd pass fr John Brodie (Tommy Davis kick) GB 10-7

3rd - GB - Grabowski, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 17-7

3rd - GB - Mercer, 44-yard field goal GREEN BAY 20-7

4th - SF - Bill Tucker, 19-yard pass from Brodie (Davis kick) GREEN BAY 20-14

4th - SF - Tucker, 59-yard pass from Brodie (Davis kick) SAN FRANCISCO 21-20

4th - SF - Davis, 37-yard field goal SAN FRANCISCO 23-20

4th - SF - Davis, 13-yard field goal SAN FRANCISCO 27-20

December 7: Baltimore Colts (12-1) 16, Green Bay Packers (5-7-1) 3

(GREEN BAY) - The Baltimore Colts defense converted three fumbles into 13 points for a 16-3 victory which ended the Green Bay Packers' hopes for another National Football League Central Division crown. The victory gave the Colts a full game lead at least for a day over the Los Angeles Rams in the Coastal Division. The Packers at least temporarily fell a full game behind both Minnesota and Chicago in the Central, and a win Sunday by either the Vikings or Bears would eliminate Green Bay. Baltimore scored its only touchdown 5:03 into the game on a 26-yard pass from Earl Morrall to Willie Richardson, then added field goals of 37, 15 and 15 yards by Lou Michaels. Green Bay's only score was a 45-yard Mike Mercer field goal in the first period as the Colt defense now has allowed just two touchdowns in the last seven games. The Packers, 5-7-1, will suffer their first losing season since the pre-Vince Lombardi year of 1958. On Green Bay's first series of plays, Donny Anderson was hit by Mike Curtis and fumbled with Bob Boyd recovering on the Packer 28. Two plays later, Richardson got behind Herb Adderley on the right side of the end zone and Morrall drilled a perfect scoring pass. The Packers got their only score after the ensuing kickoff. Zeke Bratkowski, who played all the way at quarterback in place of the injured Bart Starr, passed 18-yards to Anderson to set up Mercer's field goal. The Colts scored on the first series of the second quarter following an Anderson punt. Starting at their own 38, Morrall hit John Mackey on passes of 17 and 11 yards. The drive stalled on the Packers 30, and Michaels kicked a 37 yard field goal to give Baltimore a 10-3 lead. Late in the second period, a Bratkowski fumble was recovered by Dennis Gaubatz on the Packer 48. A 36-yard Morrall to Ray Perkins pass sparked a drive to the 6, and Michaels kicked a 15-yard field goal to make the score 13-3 with 15 seconds left in the half. An Anderson fumble was recovered by Curtis on the Packer 37 early in the third period. The Colts drove to the Packer 8 on eight plays, seven of them on the ground, and Michaels kicked his final field goal. After 5 titles in 7 years, Packer fans rose to cheer their heroes in the final quarter as the playoff hopes and the Glory Days ended.

BALTIMORE - 7 3 6 0 - 16

GREEN BAY - 3 0 0 0 - 3

1st - BA - Jerry Richardson, 26-yd pass fr Earl Morrall (Lou Michaels kick) BAL 7-0

1st - GB - Mercer, 45-yard field goal BALTIMORE 7-3

2nd - BALT - Michaels, 37-yard field goal BALTIMORE 10-3

3rd - BALT - Michaels, 15-yard field goal BALTIMORE 13-3

3rd - BALT - Michaels, 15-yard field goal BALTIMORE 16-3

December 15: Green Bay Packers (6-7-1) 28, Chicago Bears (7-7) 27

(CHICAGO) - Don Horn started the day backing up Green Bay's back-up quarterback and wound up throwing the Chicago Bears for a fatal loss. He had an unlikely band of Packer-backers from Minnesota behind him all the way. Horn, activated Saturday night by the Packers as standby for Zeke Bratkowski, Bart Starr's relief pitcher, came off the bench and keyed a 28-27 triumph over Chicago that knocked the Bears out of the National Football League championship picture. Chicago's setback, coupled with Minnesota's 24-17 victory at Philadelphia, crowned the Vikings as champions of the Central Division. But the Vikings, who followed the Green Bay-Chicago game via clubhouse radio after the finish of their game, had to sweat out a furious Bear charge in the final minutes before nailing their first division title in eight years as a NFL expansion franchise. Horn, released from the Army just 10 days ago, entered the Packers-Bears scrap with Chicago leading 10-7 in the first quarter after Bratkowski, who had started in place of the injury-plagued Starr, was shaken up. The 23-year-old San Diego State alumnus, Green Bay's No. 1 draft choice last year, uncorked a 67-yard touchdown pass to Jim Grabowski and then set up Chuck Mercein's one-yard scoring plunge with a 45-yard pass to Boyd Dowler as the Packers grabbed a 21-10 halftime lead. Horn capped an 83-yard third quarter drive with a 25-yard TD strike to Dowler, boosting the margin to 28-10, before the Bears struck back. Ronnie Bull's eight-yard touchdown run and Mac Percival's 26-yard field goal closed the gap to 28-20 and Dick Gordon grabbed a 51-yard TD pass from Jack Concannon with 3:58 remaining in the game. Percival's conversion left the Bears one point back. The Packers, unable to move the ball after the kickoff, were forced to punt. Chicago stormed back to a first down on the Packer 43 with 1:19 to play, but Concannon was thrown for a five-yard loss, two passes failed and Ray Nitschke intercepted Concannon's desperate fourth down toss.

GREEN BAY - 7 14 7 0 - 28

CHICAGO - 10 0 0 17 - 27

1st - CHI - Mac Percival, 14-yard field goal CHICAGO 3-0

1st - GB - Dowler, 72-yard pass from Bratkowski (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 7-3

1st - CHI - Dick Gordon, 48-yard pass from Jack Concannon (Percival kick) CHI 10-7

2nd - GB - Grabowski, 67-yard pass from Horn (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 14-10

2nd - GB - Mercein, 1-yard run (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 21-10

3rd - GB - Dowler, 25-yard pass from Horn (Mercer kick) GREEN BAY 28-10

4th - CHI - Ronnie Bull, 8-yard run (Percival kick) GREEN BAY 28-17

4th - CHI - Percival, 26-yard field goal GREEN BAY 28-20

4th - CHI - Gordon, 51-yard pass from Concannon (Percival kick) GB 28-27

NAME NO POS HGT WGT COLLEGE YR PR AG G HOW ACQUIRED

Herb Adderley 26 CB 6- 1 200 Michigan State 8 8 29 14 1961 Draft - 1st round

Lionel Aldridge 62 DE 6- 4 245 Utah State 6 6 27 14 1963 Draft - 4th round

Donny Anderson 44 RB 6- 3 210 Texas Tech 3 3 25 14 1965 Draft - 1st round

Ken Bowman 57 C 6- 3 230 Wisconsin 5 5 25 14 1964 Draft - 8th round

Zeke Bratkowski 12 QB 6- 3 210 Georgia 6 13 36 10 1963 FA - Los Angeles

Bob Brown 78 DE 6- 5 260 Ark-Pine Bluff 3 3 28 6 1966 FA

Tom Brown 40 DB 6- 1 190 Maryland 5 5 27 14 1963 Draft - 2nd round

Lee Roy Caffey 60 LB 6- 3 250 Texas A&M 5 6 27 14 1964 Trade - Phil

Fred Carr 53 LB 6- 5 238 Texas-El Paso 1 1 22 14 1968 Draft - 1st round

Leo Carroll 67 DE 6- 7 250 San Diego State 1 1 24 6 1968 Trade - Atlanta

Leon Crenshaw 70 DT 6- 6 280 Tuskegee 1 1 25 10 1968 FA

Carroll Dale 84 WR 6- 2 200 Virginia Tech 4 9 30 14 1965 Trade - L. Angeles

Willie Davis 87 DE 6- 3 245 Grambling 9 11 34 14 1960 Trade - Cleveland

Boyd Dowler 86 WR 6- 5 225 Colorado 10 10 30 14 1959 Draft - 3rd round

Dave Dunaway 29 WR 6- 2 205 Duke 1 1 23 2 1967 Draft - 2nd round

Jim Flanigan 55 LB 6- 3 240 Pittsburgh 2 2 23 13 1967 Draft - 2nd round

Marv Fleming 81 TE 6- 4 235 Utah 6 6 26 14 1963 Draft - 11th round

Gale Gillingham 68 G 6- 3 255 Minnesota 3 3 24 14 1966 Draft - 1st round

Jim Grabowski 33 RB 6- 2 220 Illinois 3 3 23 14 1966 Draft - 1st round

Forrest Gregg 75 G 6- 4 250 SMU 12 12 34 14 1956 Draft - 2nd round

Doug Hart 43 DB 6- 0 190 Arlington State 5 5 29 14 1964 FA - St. Louis

Dick Himes 72 T 60 4 244 Ohio State 1 1 22 14 1968 Draft - 3rd round

Don Horn 13 QB 6- 2 195 San Diego State 2 2 23 1 1967 Draft - 1st round

Bob Hyland 50 C-G 6- 5 250 Boston College 2 2 23 14 1967 Draft - 1st round

Claudis James 27 WR 6- 2 190 Jackson State 2 2 24 14 1967 Draft - 14th round

Bob Jeter 21 DB 6- 1 205 Iowa 6 6 31 12 1960 Draft - 2nd round

Henry Jordan 74 DT 6- 3 250 Virginia 10 12 33 14 1959 Trade - Cleveland

Ron Kostelnik 77 DT 6- 4 260 Cincinnati 8 8 28 13 1961 Draft - 2nd round

Jerry Kramer 64 G 6- 3 245 Idaho 11 11 32 14 1958 Draft - 4th round

Bill Lueck 62 G 6- 3 235 Arizona 1 1 22 11 1968 Draft - 1st round

Errol Mann 39 K 6- 0 203 North Dakota 1 1 27 2 1968 FA

Chuck Mercein 30 RB 6- 3 230 Yale 2 4 25 11 1967 FA - NY Giants

Mike Mercer 38 K 6- 0 217 Arizona State 1 8 32 6 1968 FA - Buffalo

Ray Nitschke 66 LB 6- 3 235 Illinois 11 11 31 14 1958 Draft - 3rd round

Francis Peay 71 T 6- 5 250 Missouri 1 3 24 14 1968 Trade - NY Giants

Elijah Pitts 22 HB 6- 1 205 Philander Smith 8 8 29 14 1961 Draft - 13th round

Bucky Pope 80 WR 6- 5 200 Catawba 1 4 27 3 1968 FA - LA (1967)

Dave Robinson 89 LB 6- 3 240 Penn State 6 6 27 14 1963 Draft - 1st round

John Rowser 45 DB 6- 1 180 Michigan 2 2 24 14 1967 Draft - 3rd round

Gordon Rule 47 S 6- 2 180 Dartmouth 1 1 22 1 1968 Draft - 11th round

Bob Skoronski 76 T 6- 3 245 Indiana 11 11 34 14 1956 Draft - 5th round

Bart Starr 15 QB 6- 1 190 Alabama 13 13 34 12 1956 Draft - 17th round

Bill Stevens 10 QB 6- 3 195 Texas-El Paso 1 1 23 1 1968 Draft - 3rd round

Phil Vandersea 83 LB 6- 3 235 Massachusetts 2 3 25 10 1968 FA - NO (1967)

Travis Williams 23 RB 6- 1 210 Arizona State 2 2 22 14 1967 Draft - 4th round

Francis Winkler 58 DE 6- 3 230 Memphis State 1 1 21 7 1968 Draft - 5th round

Willie Wood 24 DB 5-10 190 USC 9 9 31 14 1960 FA

NO - Jersey Number POS - Position HGT - Height WGT - Weight YR - Years with Packers PR - Years of Professional Football AGE - Age on September 1 G - Games Played FA - Free Agent

August 2: Green Bay Packers (1-0) 34, College All-Stars 17

(CHICAGO) - Bart Starr almost gave the College All-Stars the complete lesson of how to play pro football. Of course, the rest of the Packers were full participants too in a 34-17 decision over the 1968 collegians, but Starr was the difference in the game. Starr played when Green Bay had the ball for the first 46 minutes. During that time he completed 13 of 17 passes for 288 yards including touchdowns to Dale of 20, 36 and 13 yards. Another toss to Elijah Pitts covered 72 yards and set up the Packers fourth touchdown of the night, on a one-yard plunge by Anderson. The Packers got off to a 21-0 lead as Starr, after missing his first two passes, connected on 10 straight before missing again. Meanwhile, Wade Traynham, obtained only this week from Atlanta, kicked a 30-yard field goal. The Packers' final points also came on a field goal, 47 yards by Jerry Kramer, for a new All Star game record. It beat the mark set at 46 yards in 1941 by Lee Artoe of the Chicago Bears. August 7 - Pro soccer player Fernando Souza has signed a 1-year contract with the Packers, GM Vince Lombardi said Wednesday. Souza, 28, a center-forward for the Fall River, Mass., Astros of the ASL, boomed six of 10 field goal efforts in his tryout and is Green Bay's first-ever soccer-style kicker

GREEN BAY - 7 17 0 10 - 34

ALL-STARS - 0 3 7 7 - 17

1st - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

2nd - GB - Dale, 20-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 14-0

2nd - GB - Dale, 36-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 21-0

2nd - COLL - Jerry DePoyster, 22-yard field goal GREEN BAY 21-3

2nd - GB - Traynham, 30-yard field goal GREEN BAY 24-3

3rd - COL - Earl McCullouch, 7-yd pass fr Gary Beban (DePoyster kick) GB 24-10

4th - GB - Dale, 13-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 31-10

4th - GB - Kramer, 47-yard field goal GREEN BAY 34-10

4th - COL - McCullouch, 24-yd pass from Greg Landry (DePoyster kick) GB 34-17

August 10: New York Giants 15, Green Bay Packers (1-1) 14

(GREEN BAY) - A Fran Tarkenton touchdown pass with 15 seconds left to play gave New York a 15-14 win over the Green Bay Packers Saturday night to spoil new head coach Phil Bengtson's home debut in Lambeau Field. With 50,861 fans on hand for the eighth annual Bishop's Charities game, Tarkenton flipped a three-yard pass to flanker Joe Morrison to cap an 80-yard drive which took over nine minutes of playing time. The win ended a 12-game losing streak by the Giants to the Packers. The Giants started fast, taking a 9-0 lead before the Packers came to life behind quarterback Bart Starr. Green Bay fought into the lead, 14-9, with two consecutive touchdowns.

NEW YORK - 2 7 0 6 - 15

GREEN BAY - 0 7 7 0 - 14

1st - NY - Safety, Roger Anderson sacked Starr in end zone NEW YORK 2-0

2nd - NY - Homer Jones, 82-yd pass fr Fran Tarkenton (Les Murdock kick) NY 9-0

2nd - GB - Grabowski, 1-yard run (Souza kick) NEW YORK 9-7

3rd - GB - Fleming, 14-yard pass from Starr (Souza kick) GREEN BAY 14-9

4th - NY - Joe Morrison, 3-yard pass from Tarkenton (Run failed) NY 15-14

August 19: Chicago Bears 10, Green Bay Packers (1-2) 7

(MILWAUKEE) - The Packers learned Monday night that ball control isn't everything, not when there is someone named Gale Sayers around. Sayers, the only setback in the Chicago backfield on the second scrimmage play, took a handoff from Jack Concannon, sped to his left, shook two tacklers and then ran 76 yards with no one in front of him to lead the Bears to a 10-7 win over the Packers in the 19th annual Midwest Shrine Charities game. The Packers, looking far off the form that has brought them three successive championships, then plodded their way the rest of the game, controlling the ball on 76 plays to only 50 for the Bears and still not being able to pull it out. Each team managed just one score apiece after Sayers' run, the Bears on a 42-yard Mac Percival field goal in the second quarter and the Packers in the third period on a Bart Starr to Boyd Dowler pass.

CHICAGO - 7 3 0 0 - 10

GREEN BAY - 0 0 7 0 - 7

1st - CHI - Gale Sayers, 76-yard run (Mac Percival kick) CHICAGO 7-0

2nd - CHI - Percival, 42-yard field goal CHICAGO 10-0

3rd - GB - Dowler, 14-yard pass from Starr (Traynham kick) CHICAGO 10-7

August 24: Green Bay Packers (2-2) 31, Dallas Cowboys 27

(DALLAS) - World champion Green Bay, proving it can play in 91-degree Texas heat as well as sub-zero cold, turned Dallas mistakes touchdowns last night and defeated the Cowboys, 31-27, in an exhibition that matched the teams in last year's NFL Championship. It was 104 degrees warmer than when the Pacers nicked Dallas to win the title. The victory was the first for new Packer coach Phil Bengtson over a professional team. The Packers ran up a 31-13 lead before Dallas made a comeback before a national TV audience. The game ended when a Cowboy onside kick failed.

GREEN BAY - 7 10 14 0 - 31

DALLAS - 0 10 3 14 - 27

1st - GB - Grabowski, 1-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

2nd - GB - Kramer, 15-yard field goal GREEN BAY 10-0

2nd - DA - Lance Rentzel, 11-yd pass from Don Meredith (Mike Clark kick) GB 10-7

2nd - GB - Bratkowski, 3-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 17-7

2nd - DAL - Clark, 16-yard field goal GREEN BAY 17-10

3rd - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 24-10

3rd - DAL - Clark, 45-yard field goal GREEN BAY 24-13

3rd - GB - William, 75-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 31-13

4th - DAL - Peter Gent, 27-yard pass from Meredith (Clark kick) GB 31-20

4th - DAL - Dennis Homan, 10-yard pass from Meredith (Clark kick) GB 31-27

August 31: Green Bay Packers (3-2) 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17

(MILWAUKEE) - Veteran quarterbacks Bart Starr and Zeke Bratkowski burned Pittsburgh's rookie defensive backs with bombs as the world champion Packers upended the Steelers Saturday night. Starr connected with Carroll Dale on passes of 50 and 57 yards while Bratkowski hit Bob Long with a 54-yard toss during a second half played in a driving rainstorm.

PITTSBURGH - 10 0 0 7 - 17

GREEN BAY - 7 7 7 0 - 21

1st - PIT - Bill Shockley, 31-yard field goal PITTSBURGH 3-0

1st - GB - Dale, 16-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-3

1st - PIT - John Campbell, 3-yard interception return (Shockley kick) PITT 10-7

2nd - GB - Dale, 57-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 14-10

3rd - GB - Anderson, 1-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 21-10

4th - PIT - Dick Hoak, 1-yard run (Shockley kick) GREEN BAY 21-17

September 7: Green Bay Packers (4-2) 31, Cleveland Browns 9

(CLEVELAND) - Bart Starr's pinpoint passing and Jim Grabowski's three touchdowns made it look easy for Green Bay Saturday night as the world champion Packers routed Cleveland 31-9 in an exhibition doubleheader. The New York Jets beat Detroit 9-6 in the other game before a crowd of 84,918, largest in Browns' history. Grabowski scored on a pair of two-yard runs and an 18-yard pass from Starr, who left the game in the fourth quarter with 11 of 17 pass completions for 164 yards. Donny Anderson scored on a 13-yard run up the middle as he and Grabowski shredded the center of the Cleveland defense. The Packers took a 7-0 lead on their first series and were never behind in their sixth straight victory over the Browns, including preseason, regular season and NFL championship games.

GREEN BAY - 7 7 7 10 - 31

CLEVELAND - 3 3 3 0 - 9

1st - GB - Grabowski, 18-yard pass from Starr (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 7-0

1st - CLE - Don Cockroft, 32-yard field goal GREEN BAY 7-3

2nd - CLE - Cockroft, 17-yard field goal GREEN BAY 7-6

2nd - GB - Grabowski, 2-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 14-6

3rd - CLE - Cockroft, 36-yard field goal GREEN BAY 14-9

3rd - GB - Anderson, 13-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 21-9

4th - GB - Kramer, 47-yard field goal GREEN BAY 24-9

4th - GB - Grabowski, 2-yard run (Kramer kick) GREEN BAY 31-9