Editing Green Bay Packers (section)

==== NFL champions (1936, 1939, 1944) ====
[[File:Don hutson packers.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Don Hutson]] with the Packers; his jersey number was the first retired by the Packers (1951)|left]]
The arrival of the end [[Don Hutson]] from [[Alabama football|Alabama]] in 1935 gave Lambeau and the Packers the most feared and dynamic offensive weapon in the game. Credited with inventing pass patterns, Hutson would lead the league in receptions in eight seasons and spur the Packers to NFL championships in [[1936 Green Bay Packers season|1936]], [[1939 Green Bay Packers season|1939]] and [[1944 Green Bay Packers season|1944]]. An [[One-platoon system|Iron Man]], Hutson played both ways, leading the league in interceptions as a [[Safety (American football position)|safety]] in 1940. Hutson claimed 18 NFL records when he retired in 1945, many of which still stand.<ref name="b780">{{cite web | last=Stephenson | first=Creg | title=Don Hutson, the Babe Ruth of wide receivers and Alabama's greatest football player | website=AL.com | date=July 1, 2016 | url=https://www.al.com/sports/2016/07/don_hutson_the_babe_ruth_of_fo.html | access-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829172514/https://www.al.com/sports/2016/07/don_hutson_the_babe_ruth_of_fo.html | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1951, his number 14 was the first to be retired by the Packers, and he was inducted as a charter member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in 1963.<ref name="s530">{{cite web | last=Kruse | first=Zach | title=Uniform numbers retired by the Green Bay Packers | website=Packers Wire | publisher=USA Today | date=July 10, 2024 | url=https://packerswire.usatoday.com/lists/uniform-numbers-retired-green-bay-packers-brett-favre-bart-starr-don-huston-aaron-rodgers-curly-lambeau-ray-nitschke/ | access-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829172744/https://packerswire.usatoday.com/lists/uniform-numbers-retired-green-bay-packers-brett-favre-bart-starr-don-huston-aaron-rodgers-curly-lambeau-ray-nitschke/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="s323">{{cite web | last=Lea | first=Bud | title=Last of the Legends: Don Hutson one of a kind | website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | date=July 16, 1997 | url=https://archive.jsonline.com/sports/packers/206355991.html | access-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-date=August 29, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829172701/https://archive.jsonline.com/sports/packers/206355991.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

After Hutson's retirement, Lambeau could not stop the Packers' slide. He purchased a large lodge near Green Bay for team members and families to live in. Rockwood Lodge was the home of the 1946–49 Packers. The 1947 and 1948 seasons produced a record of 12–10–1, and 1949 was even worse at 3–9. The lodge burned down on January 24, 1950, and insurance money paid for many of the Packers' debts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/9669836/mysterious-fire-1950-saved-green-bay-packers-espn-magazine|title=Blaze of Glory|last=Fleming|first=David|date=September 27, 2013|access-date=December 9, 2014|publisher=[[ESPN]]|archive-date=February 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207175756/http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9669836/mysterious-fire-1950-saved-green-bay-packers-espn-magazine|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Tony Canadeo 1950 Bowman.jpg|thumb|A 1950 depiction of [[Tony Canadeo]], whose No. 3 was retired by the Packers in 1952]]
Curly Lambeau departed after the [[1949 Green Bay Packers season|1949 season]]. [[Gene Ronzani]] and [[Lisle Blackbourn]] could not coach the Packers back to their former magic, even as a new stadium was unveiled in 1957.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gene Ronzani Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RonzGe0.htm |access-date=August 29, 2024 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en |archive-date=March 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314210410/http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/RonzGe0.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisle Blackbourn Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BlacLi0.htm |access-date=August 29, 2024 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en |archive-date=August 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151232/http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/BlacLi0.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The losing would descend to the disastrous [[1958 Green Bay Packers season|1958]] campaign under coach [[Ray McLean|Ray "Scooter" McLean]], whose lone 1–10–1 year at the helm is the worst in Packers history.<ref>{{cite news |title=In throes of winter, a team in disarray is reborn |first=David |last=Maraniss |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19990914&id=3P8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lI4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5049,7209886 |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]] |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin |date=September 14, 1999 |page=2B |access-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-date=April 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427141539/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19990914&id=3P8cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lI4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5049,7209886 |url-status=dead }}</ref>