On the evening of August 11th, a group of young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building and organized a football team. The initial spark had been struck a few weeks before a casual street corner conversation between Lambeau and Calhoun.

They talked Curly's employer at the Indian Packing Company into putting up some money for equipment. Because the packing company, which also permitted the use of its athletic field for practice, had provided the team's jerseys, the club was identified in its early publicity as a project of the company.

With this tie-in, the name "Packers" was a natural, although the corporation had practically faded out of the picture before the season was half over. That first season the team won ten games and lost only once against other teams from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.

Games were played in an open field with no fences or bleachers, and interested fans "passed the hat.