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East 17

January 12, 1964

The 1964 Pro Bowl featured the first appearance by the Chicago Bears’ coach George Halas since the Pro Bowl of January 1942. It would also be his last appearance. The Bears had won the NFL title in 1963 over the New York Giants in the title game. Allie Sherman of the Giants was the coach of the West. A crowd of 67, 242 attended the game at the Coliseum.

The East scored first when Cleveland’s Bill Glass intercepted a pass by John Unitas of the Colts. The West held the East to a field goal by Dallas’ Sam Baker of 30 yards and it was 3-0 halfway through the first period. The West’s first score came on a 37 yard touchdown run by the Packers’ Jim Taylor. It was the first of four consecutive scores by the West. In the second quarter, Unitas hit Raymond Berry for a four yard touchdown pass. The score was 14-3 at the half.

In the third quarter, Jess Whittenton of the Packers returned an interception 26 yards for a touchdown and Unitas hit Gail Gogdill of Detroit with a 5 yard touchdown pass. The score was 28-3 at the end of three. The East finally scored in the third quarter with an 8 yard run by Jim Brown of Cleveland. But, the West quelled any thoughts of a comeback when Tommy Davis of San Francisco connected on a 31 yard field goal. Jim Brown scored again in the waning moments of the game for the East to close the final score to 31-17.

Johnny Unitas won his third MVP trophy, the George Halas Award. Gino Marchetti, also of the Colts, won the lineman of the game award and reiterated his plans to retire. It was Marchetti who presented the game ball to Halas.

Jim Brown fights for yardage.

Ray Berry grabs Unitas pass for touchdown in front of Dick Lynch.

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