SPENCER/GREEN BAY – The summer of 1871 was an unusually dry one for the city of Chicago, with just a quarter of the normal rainfall in July and August and drought conditions worsening. The dry …
Continued from last week The front page of the Oct. 15, 1969, Green Bay Press-Gazette heralded the news of Arnie Herber’s death. A day earlier, Herber lost his battle with cancer at a …
Continued from last week Following his induction into the Professional Football Hall of Fame, Arnie Herber continued to work for the Pepsi Bottling Company in De Pere. After being diagnosed …
Continued from last week “The announcement that ex-Packer Arnie Herber had been named to the pro Football Hall of Fame did not come exactly as jolting news. Rumors of his selection had been …
Continued from last week Arnie Herber, the Packer passing immortal, has been contacted by Hollywood agents to play the role of Jim Thorpe, the one-time [Native American] athlete, as a …
Continued from last week Dear Arnie, I think you were a great football player. Your playing was always superb for Wisconsin, St. Regis and the Green Bay Packers. You were a great …
Continued from last week In November 1946, the Green Bay Press-Gazette ran a public poll to name the Green Bay Packers “all-time team.” Almost 2,500 fans responded from 15 states. …
Continued from last week Arnie Herber came to the Giants out of shape and unprepared for the 1944 NFL season, but according to former Giants Center Mel Hein, Herber worked hard to get in shape. …
Continued from last week “After the 1940 season, the Packers released [Herber.] They said he had a bum knee, but there may have been friction between him and Lambeau. Some fans wanted to give …
Continued from last week On Aug. 27, 1941, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported that Arnie Herber, whose contract called for “regular appearances below the 200-pound mark,” was “shaving …
Continued from last week While Arnie Herber and Don Hutson became the NFL’s predominant quarterback-wide receiver team in 1936 — Hutson leading in pass reception categories and Herber in …
Continued from last week “Herber was not a scrambler. He had to hold the ball long enough for his receivers to get downfield, and he knew he was going to get hit,” Norman L. Macht wrote in …
Continued from last week According to Green Bay Packers Historian Cliff Christl, Herber received a lot of harassment from his teammates in his early days with the team. “They tagged him …
Continued from last week “Both East and West high schools will be represented by former football starts on the Green Bay Packer eleven this fall as Arnold Herber and Dave Zuidmulder, two of …
Continued from last week After leaving UW-Madison, Arnie Herber headed back to Green Bay, taking a job with the railroad. “A prominent family in town persuaded him to go to St. Regis …
Continued from last week “Although local high school stars had little national recognition in the 1920s, the coaches at West Point had heard about Herber’s high school records,” Norman L. …
Continued from last week That spring, Arnie Herber was also named captain of West’s basketball team and led his team to a .714 standing, winning seven out of 12 games. Herber also …
Continued from last week “West High’s first game in the Valley Conference will be staged on Saturday when ‘Murph’ White’s squad takes the field at the city stadium against Sheboygan. …
Continued from last week In 1919, Green Bay’s Indian Packing Company sponsored a semi-pro football team that set the wheels in motion, not only for a future NFL team, but for a young future …
With her husband now gone, Louisa “Sophia” Duchateau Herber was left to raise her three boys, which now included Harry, who was just an infant. After Peter’s death, the family remained in …