• Quarter 2
  The first score came suddenly 1:49 into the period. Baugh tossed to Todd to the Bear 42. On the next play, the direct snap hit Todd in the shoulder as he didn't seem to think the ball was coming to him. Chicago E George Wilson reached for the ball but couldn't control it. But Artoe, a 230 lb DT, picked up the pigskin on the 49 and ran untouched into the EZ to put Bears in front. The Redskins were off­side on the play, which probably threw off the timing and led to the miscue, but of course the Bears declined. Artoe's PAT boot hooked left.
  The Redskins received the kickoff, but on first down Baugh got off another quick­kick. The ball was downed on the 11.
  Chicago drove again until Moore stepped in front of a Luckman pass to Johnny Siegal and returned it 16y to the Bear 42. Cecil Hare gained 4 before Baugh threw an incompletion. Sam took the next snap and, receiving good protection, threw a beautiful pass to Moore, who hauled it in over his shoulder as he crossed the goal line a step behind the defender John Petty. Bob Masterson kicked the go-ahead point. In the pressbox, Washington owner George Preston Marshall dropped his cane in his excitement. Far from collapsing as they did in '40, his team had fought back to take the lead. The pinpoint pass demonstrated conclusively that Baugh was not overrated.
  Later, the Redskins stormed down the field to the 14. But two Baugh passes into the EZ barely missed connections to end the threat.
  The Redskins used only three substitutes, all backs, in the first half.

• Quarter 3
  Washington stopped the Bears after they received the kickoff, Farkas returning a long Luckman punt 30y to the Chicago 43. Andy, who had done little during the first half, banged into the line twice for a first down at the 32. Baugh, unable to find a receiver after drifting back nearly 15y, decided to run and got back to the line of scrimmage. Trapped again on the next play, Sam slid to the 24, then clawed his way over a huge mound of bodies for a first down on the 20. Again Farkas carried and got to the 15 before going down under a ton of Bears. He hit the other side of the line next with Steve Slivinski leading the way to the 8. But Slivinski was carried off the field on a stretcher with a broken nose and two lost teeth. Farkas kept going without him, first to the 5. Then he hit the line, bounced off, and forced his way to the 1. Finally, he dove in from the 1 on the eleventh snap. He fumbled, but the linesman ruled he crossed the line first despite the howls of the Bears. Masterson converted to make it 14-6, a two-score advantage when the two-point conversion was not available.
  Gaining confidence with every defensive stand, the Redskins held the Bears scoreless in the period, during which each team ran 15 plays.
  

• Quarter 4
  O'Rourke took over for the ineffective Luckman in an attempt to spark the Bears. With the stiff wind at his back, Charlie drove his unit 52y to the 12, passing for all but 3 of the yards. The big play was a 40-yarder to little Monk Manzicki to the 24. Then O'Rourke threw a jump pass to Siegal on the 15. Famiglietti rammed for 2y gains twice. Then the Bears got cute and had Manzicki throw a pass, but Baugh, who never left the field during the game, intercepted in the EZ.
  The Redskins couldn't move and punted on fourth down. But the Bears were pen­alized for offside to give Washington a first down that allowed them to eat up more of the clock. But O'Rourke intercepted Baugh's pass on the Chicago 34.
  Luckman came back in but met no better fate than he had earlier when the Red­skins rushed him vigorously. This time they smeared him all the way back to his 11 to force a punt.
  After running some more time off the clock, Baugh punted into the end zone.
  Since he started the period, O'Rourke could come back in. He passed to McLean, who fumbled on his 41 but teammate Hampton Pool recovered on the 43. Then Ray snared nother short pass and threaded his way to the Redskin 33. Bob Nowaskey couldn't quite reach O'Rourke's throw but did snag the next one on the 17 and ran to the 2.
  
  
  As a product of George Washington University, Nowaskey received the biggest cheer from the crowd of all the Bears introduced before the game. Bob's 15y reception in the championship game continued his "almost touchdown" experiences. Four times he crossed the enemy goal line during the season, but every time a penalty negated the score. And two other times he was tackled less than a yard away.
  
  When Washington took an extra timeout, they were penalized half the distance to the 1. Score a TD, recover an onside kick, and the afternoon could be salvaged. But Osmanski, playing in his first game in months, was knocked back half a yard. Then Gallarneau strained and twisted his way into the EZ, but he was guilty of being in motion. After the penalty, Osmanski ran the ball back to the 3. Then Bill failed to grasp O'Rourke's high fourth down pass in the EZ. So the Redskins took over with less than three minutes remaining.
  When the clock ran out, jubilant Washington fans tore down the goal posts. A milling mass remained on the field for a half hour, yelling and dancing. Downtown Washington turned into bedlam all evening.
  

• The forward wall, tackles Wee Willie Wilkin and Bill Young and guards Dick Farman and Steve Slivinski, controlled the Chicago running game. Bob Mas­terson and Ed Cifers played all 60 minutes at E while Ki Aldrich did the same at C.
• The Redskins wrecked all the Bears' pet plays, particularly the quick-opening line smashes for which they were famous.

The statistics showed that neither starting QB had a good day passing.

• First downs: 10-9 Bears
• Yards rushing: 101-69 Redskins
• Passing: Bears 20-10-3/97y, Redskins 13-5-2/65y
• Return yardage: 83-73 Bears
• Fumbles-Lost: Bears 1-1, Redskins 1-1
• Penalty Yards: Bears 7-47, Redskins 4-26
• Baugh ended with an incredible punting average of 62.5y.

Postgame comments

• Washington C Ki Aldrich summarized the game succinctly. We beat their pants off.
• Baugh: I guess this kinda makes up for that thing in 1940, don't it?
• Andy Farkas admitted that he was hit so hard that he couldn't remember playing most of the game. I hate to miss a good ball game like that.
• Bears' co-coach Hunk Anderson: We deserved to lose, and we lost to a better ball club.
• Years later, Luckman gave his take on the stunning defeat. We were beginning to think of ourselves as unbeatable. Coach Halas would never have allowed that. He always told us we must go into every game prepared to meet a superior team. We did not work as before. The inevitable happened.
• Forty years later, Gallarneau recalled: It was the most frustrating game I can re­member. Nothing we tried worked. We had a great team, but everyone was flat. ... We lost to a poorer team that afternoon, and none of us were very happy about it.

Immediately after the game, word spread of a meeting the Bears had the night before the game that may have contributed to their lackluster play.

• The league scheduled the winner of the championship game to play an all-star team from the other teams on December 27 in the "pro bowl" in Philadelphia.
• But several Bears didn't want to miss Christmas with their families to play in the game without being paid. After much discussion, the team decided to go through with the game.
• But, in the wake of the upset, some wondered whether the dissension had an effect on the team's play. The Chicago players vigorously denied that they had a row of the eve of the championship game. They did seek a change in the date but insisted there were no heated arguments.
• Curly Lambeau, coach of the Packers who attended the game, had a different theory. I'd be willing to bet that every one of those Washington players saw "73 to 0" on every play.
• Cardinals coach Jimmy Conzelman: The Bears just weren't the Bears today. They didn't even get started until the fourth quarter.
• Owner Marshall credited his team's fine line play. Did you ever see such end play as Bob Masterson and Ed Cifers turned in? And Ki Aldrich at center - wasn't he a pip?

The game netted $113,260.40.

• So each Redskin earned $932.30.
• Each Bear received $639.12, which was more than they made beating the Giants in '41.