Post Season
Soon after the Championship Game against Green Bay, 61-year-old Buck Shaw retires as Head Coach of the Eagles. Eagles quarterback and 12 years veteran, Norm Van Brocklin retires after game also and expects to be named head coach. They instead name name Asst. Coach Nick Skorich who will lead the Eagle for the next 3 years.
Norm Van Brocklin is named Head Coach of the 1961 expansion Minnesota Vikings In the 1961 expansion draft the Eagles lost guard Gerry Huth, defensive back Gene Johnson, and center Bill Lapham, to Minnesota.
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The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
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