College All-Star Game--1934-1976

The College All-Star Game was the brainchild of Chicago Tribune sportswriter Arch Ward. Ward had conceived and created the idea for a baseball All-Star Game, which came to fruition in the first All-Star Game held in Chicago's Comiskey Park in July of 1933. The next year he came up with an idea for a football All-Star game that would pit the best collegiate players against the NFL Champions from the previous year. The final game, in 1976, was shortened by a tremendous rain storm. (video: 10:58).

The story of how the College All-Star game was conceived, promoted and executed, is told in The College All-Star Football Classic in Pro Football Researchers Coffin Corner. An explanation for why the series was ended appeared in the Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 22, 1976.

List of game scores

Video highlights from two of the All-Stars' wins:

* Game stories available at Today in Pro Football History Blog (Keith Yowell)

1958: *College All-Stars 35 Lions 19 (1:20, silent)
TPFH game story

1963: *College All-Stars 20 Packers 17 (0:21). This is the crucial 73 yard TD pass from Ron Vander Kelen (Wisconsin State Journal, Aug. 16, 2016) to Pat Richter that gave the All Stars a 20-10 lead.
TPFH game story.

And from five of the NFL champions wins

1960: Colts 32 All-Stars 7 (1:18)
1961: Eagles 28 All-Stars 14 (2:03)
1962: Packers 42 All-Stars 20 (1:55)
1965: Browns 24 All-Stars 16 (1:55)
1966: Packers 38 All-Stars 0 (1:42, silent)

Summaries of every game are available at an out of print site provided by Mark Golding.

College All-Star Games

TPFH game stories

1934: All-Stars 0 Bears 0

1935: Bears 5 All-Stars 0 Note: this was the only game where a team other than the NFL champions played the All-Stars (the Giants won the Championship in 1934.

1943: All-Stars: 27 Redskins 7 This game was played at Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium, the first game to be played at a venue other than Soldier Field.

1950: All-Stars 17 Eagles 7 This was the first College All-Star game to be nationally televised.



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