1970 Chicago Bears season














1970 Chicago Bears season
Head coachJim Dooley
OwnerGeorge Halas
Home field
Wrigley Field
Dyche Stadium
Results
Record6–8
Division place4th NFC Central
Playoff finishdid not qualify

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The 1970 Chicago Bears season was their 51st regular season completed in the National Football League. The club posted a 6–8 record, another below .500 showing, but a significant improvement over their 1–13 record of the previous season.




Contents





  • 1 Offseason

    • 1.1 NFL Draft



  • 2 Roster


  • 3 Regular season

    • 3.1 Schedule


    • 3.2 Season summary

      • 3.2.1 Week 1


      • 3.2.2 Week 2


      • 3.2.3 Week 3


      • 3.2.4 Week 4


      • 3.2.5 Week 5


      • 3.2.6 Week 6


      • 3.2.7 Week 7


      • 3.2.8 Week 8


      • 3.2.9 Week 9


      • 3.2.10 Week 10


      • 3.2.11 Week 11


      • 3.2.12 Week 12


      • 3.2.13 Week 13


      • 3.2.14 Week 14



    • 3.3 Standings



  • 4 References




Offseason



NFL Draft


Main article: 1970 NFL Draft











Round
Pick
Player
Position
School/Club Team
3
58

George Farmer
Wide Receiver

UCLA


Roster










1970 Chicago Bears final roster



Quarterbacks

  • 11 Jack Concannon


  • 10 Bobby Douglass


  • 16 Kent Nix

Running backs



  • 46 Craig Baynham


  • 29 Ronnie Bull FB


  • 33 Mike Hull


  • 32 Ralph Kurek


  • 22 Ross Montgomery


  • 24 Don Shy

Wide receivers



  • 25 Linzy Cole


  • 43 George Farmer


  • 45 Dick Gordon


  • 84 Jim Seymour


  • 21 Cecil Turner

Tight ends



  • 37 Rich Coady


  • 86 Jim Hester


  • 38 Ray Ogden


  • 89 Bob Wallace



Offensive linemen

  • 72 Jim Cadile G


  • 70 Jeff Curchin T


  • 61 Glen Holloway G


  • 50 Bob Hyland C


  • 65 Randy Jackson T


  • 74 Wayne Mass T


  • 68 Howard Mudd G


  • 69 Ted Wheeler G

Defensive linemen



  • 78 Harry Gunner DE


  • 75 Dave Hale DT


  • 85 Willie Holman DE


  • 87 Ed O'Bradovich DE


  • 67 George Seals DT


  • 76 Bill Staley DT



Linebackers

  • 31 Ross Brupbacher


  • 55 Doug Buffone


  • 51 Dick Butkus


  • 60 Lee Roy Caffey


  • 30 Jimmy Gunn


  • 63 John Neidert

Defensive backs



  • 29 Phil Clark SS


  • 23 Dick Daniels S


  • 47 Butch Davis


  • 44 Garry Lyle FS


  • 26 Bennie McRae CB


  • 48 Ron Smith FS


  • 20 Joe Taylor CB

Special teams



  • 88 Bobby Joe Green P


  • 83 Mac Percival K



Reserve lists

  • 40 Gale Sayers RB (IR) Injury icon 2.svg


Practice squad




Rookies in italics

Active, Inactive, Practice squad



Regular season


The Bears hosted their first home game of the season at Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium as an experiment. The Bears anticipated that their Wrigley Field landlord, the Chicago Cubs, might play in the National League Championship Series and World Series, and that Wrigley Field would be unavailable (at least for installation of temporary seating in right and center field) until well into October.[1] (The Cubs were in contention in the National League East until the final week of the 1970 season, thus rendering the anticipation moot.)[2][3]


In addition, the NFL was pressuring the Bears to move out of Wrigley Field, because it had no lights and its seating capacity was under 50,000 (even with additional seating in right field for football games), stipulations of the AFL–NFL merger agreement. The Bears planned to move to Evanston for the 1971 season, but Evanston residents petitioned city officials to block the move, and the Big Ten Conference ultimately barred the Bears from using Dyche Stadium;[4] the Bears moved to Chicago's Soldier Field.[5]


  • Prior to the season on June 16, running back Brian Piccolo died of cancer at age 26.


Schedule













































































Week
Date
Opponent
Result
Attendance
1
September 19
at New York Giants
W 24–16

62,936
2
September 27

Philadelphia Eagles
W 20–16

53,463
3
October 5
at Detroit Lions
L 28–14

58,210
4
October 11

Minnesota Vikings
L 24–0

45,485
5
October 18

San Diego Chargers
L 20–7

45,278
6
October 25
Detroit Lions
L 16–10

45,632
7
November 1
at Atlanta Falcons
W 23–14

58,850
8
November 8

San Francisco 49ers
L 37–16

45,607
9
November 15
at Green Bay Packers
L 20–19

56,263
10
November 22

Buffalo Bills
W 31–13

41,015
11
November 29
at Baltimore Colts
L 21–20

60,240
12
December 5
at Minnesota Vikings
L 16–13

47,900
13
December 13
Green Bay Packers
W 35–17

44,957
14
December 20
at New Orleans Saints
W 24–3

63,518


Season summary



Week 1























1234Total
• Bears
737724
Giants1030316

  • Date: September 19


  • Location: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York


  • Game start: 8:00 p.m. EST


  • Game weather: 71°F, wind 13 mph


  • Source: Pro-Football-Reference.com










































Week 2























1234Total
Eagles630716
• Bears
7100320

  • Date: September 27


  • Location: Dyche Stadium • Evanston, Illinois


  • Game start: 1:00 p.m.


  • Game weather: 52°F • Wind 9




































[6]




Week 3



Week 4



Week 5



Week 6



Week 7























1234Total
• Bears1037323
Falcons077014

  • Date: November 1


  • Location: Atlanta Stadium, Atlanta


  • Game start: 1:00 p.m.


  • Game weather: 62°F; wind 7




































[7]




Week 8



Week 9



Week 10























1234Total
Bills600713
• Bears
01471031

  • Date: November 22


  • Location: Wrigley Field • Chicago


  • Game start: 1:00 p.m. CST


  • Game weather: 43°F • Wind 22




































[8]




Week 11



Week 12



Week 13



Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears



















1234Total
Packers3001417
• Bears
1477735

  • Date: Sunday, December 13


  • Location: Wrigley Field, Chicago


  • Game start: 1:00 p.m. CST


  • Game weather: 32°F, wind 11 mph


  • Source: Pro-Football-Reference.com










































Week 14























1234Total
• Bears0731424
Saints03003

  • Date: December 20


  • Location: Tulane Stadium, New Orleans


  • Game start: 2:00 p.m.


  • Game weather: 65°F; wind 7



























  • Jack Concannon 26/50, 280 Yds


  • Dick Gordon 9 Rec, 119 Yds

[9]




Standings





















































NFC Central

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W

L

T

PCT

DIV

CONF

PF

PA

STK

Minnesota Vikings
12
2
0
.857
5–1
10–1
335
143
W3

Detroit Lions
10
4
0
.714
4–2
7–4
347
202
W5

Green Bay Packers
6
8
0
.429
2–4
4–7
196
293
L2

Chicago Bears
6
8
0
.429
1–5
5–6
256
261
W2

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.



References




  1. ^ http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1970/07/22/page/49/article/bears-over-sue-evanston-n-u-over-use-of-dyche-stadium


  2. ^ "Pennant race at a glance". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. September 16, 1970. p. 16..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHC/1970-schedule-scores.shtml


  4. ^ http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/03/10/page/56/article/n-u-asks-special-big-10-meeting


  5. ^ http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1971/04/14/page/85/article/renovations-key-to-soldier-field


  6. ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com


  7. ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-Sep-14.


  8. ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com


  9. ^ Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-Sep-14.












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