The 1933 Chicago Bears won their second straight NFL title with a 10-2-1 regular season record and a victory over the New York Giants in the league’s first scheduled championship game. The Bears’ roster, which was overseen by coach George Halas, included future Hall of Fame players Bronko Nagurski, Bill Hewitt, and Red Grange. The Western Division champion Bears gave up 6.3 points per game, which was second fewest in the NFL, and had a passing attack that was eclipsed only by that of the Giants, who won the East. The 11-3 Giants boasted the league’s best scoring offense, at over 17 points per game, and the NFL’s best passer, Harry Newman. It was inevitable, then, that those two teams would meet to determine the best team in the NFL, which for the first time had been split into two divisions. On December 17 at Wrigley Field, the Bears beat the Giants, 23-21 on a late fourth quarter TD off a lateral by the rookie Bill Karr. Other heroes in the game included Nagurski, who’d thrown a TD pass to Karr in the third quarter, and Jack Manders, who kicked three field goals.