Editing Curly Lambeau (section)

===Founding the Green Bay Packers===
[[File:Lambeau 1919 poster.jpg|thumb|Lambeau with the [[Green Bay Packers]] in 1923|alt=A black and white image of a man preparing to throw a football]]
Lambeau and [[George Whitney Calhoun]] founded the Green Bay Packers on August 11, 1919, after the packing company put up $500 for uniforms. That fall, the founders secured [[Willard Ryan|Willard "Big Bill" Ryan]], former coach of [[Green Bay West High School]], to coach the team. The team's name reportedly was offered to Curly by his girlfriend Agnes Aylward after a pickup game; Curly had wanted to call the team "The Green Bay Indians" to respect Indian Packing's purchase of uniforms for the team; so Agnes simply blurted, "Well, for heaven's sake, Curly, why don't you just call them the Green Bay Packers!" The team's naming rights were sold to the Acme Packing Company, and the team remained Packers.<ref name="The Legend of Lambeau Field DVD">The Legend of Lambeau Field DVD</ref>

The Packers initially played teams from Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. However, the success of the team in 1919 and 1920 quickly led to its joining of the American Professional Football Association (now called the [[National Football League]]) in 1921.<ref name="The Legend of Lambeau Field DVD"/> During that season the team was owned by the Acme Packing Company and John and Emmet Clair of Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Packers pioneers overlooked by history |url=https://www.packers.com/news/packers-pioneers-overlooked-by-history-19512584 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Green Bay Packers |language=en-US}}</ref>