This was the first championship game for both the Redskins and the Western Division championGreen Bay Packers (10–1–1), who were favored.[10] The Packers won 21–6 for their fourth NFL title, all under longtime head coachCurly Lambeau, having previously won league championships awarded by league standing in1929,1930, and1931.[11]
† -Note: The quarterback in thesingle-wing offense was sometimes called the "blocking back", the ball was generallyshotgun snapped to a halfback or the fullback.
‡ -Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame.
The NFL had only fourgame officials in1936; the back judge was added in1947, the line judge in1965, and the side judge in1978. The following were the four officials who called the 1936 championship game.[12]
1 – Dates in the list denote the season, not necessarily the calendar year in which the championship game was played. For instance, Super Bowl LIV was played in 2020, but was the championship for the 2019 season.
2 – From 1966 to 1969, the first four Super Bowls were "World Championship" games played between two independent professional football leagues, AFL and NFL, and when the leaguemerged in 1970 the Super Bowl became the NFL Championship Game.
