George Stanley Halas Sr. (; February 2, 1895 - October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was a player, coach, and owner involved with professional American football.He was the founder, owner, and head coach of the National Football League's Chicago Bears. He was also lesser known as a Major League Baseball player.

The company hired George Halas and Edward "Dutch" Sternaman in 1920 to run the team. The club posted a 10–1–2 record under first year head coach/player George Halas earning them a second-place finish in the team standings. One of the people who were scheduled to be on Eastland was 20-year-old George Halas, an American football player, who was delayed leaving for the dock, and arrived after ...

In December 1966, George J. Halas found himself at home in Chicago with nothing to do on the last weekend of the pro football season. The Bears weren’t in the playoffs, thus there was no next opponent to watch. So he picked up the phone and called up to Green Bay. Halas told Len Wagner of the Green Bay Press-Gazette that the conversation went something like this:

hundred years ago tomorrow, George Halas “died.”. The word is in quotes because, well, he didn’t really die. At 20, he still had the Chicago Bears to found, the NFL to establish, the game of football to transform. But he easily could have died if he’d stuck to his original plan on July 24, 1915 to take the SS Eastland across Lake Michigan to the annual Western Electric Co. picnic.

CHICAGO -- George Halas' death Monday night prompted tributes from sports figures nationwide who had known and revered the feisty owner of the Chicago Bears. Halas, the founder, owner and longtime...

Virginia Halas McCaskey is the primary owner and corporate secretary of the National Football League’s Chicago Bears. She is the NFL’s first female owner and the eldest daughter of George Halas, the Chicago Bears coach and owner who died in 1983 and left the team to his daughter.

On December 8, 1940, the Chicago Bears trounced the Washington Redskins in the NFL Championship Game, 73-0—the largest margin of victory in league history. Three weeks earlier, the Bears lost to...