1956 NFL season

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NFL season sports season

The 1956 NFL season was a professional American football campaign in which the National Football League's teams competed for the championship ultimately decided by the 1956 NFL Championship Game.

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Label Occurrences
1955 NFL season 1
1956 NFL season canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf NFL season ⓘ
sports season ⓘ
champion New York Giants ⓘ
championshipGame 1956 NFL Championship Game ⓘ
championshipGameCity New York City ⓘ
championshipGameDate 1956-12-30 ⓘ
championshipGameScore New York Giants 47–7 Chicago Bears ⓘ
championshipGameSite Yankee Stadium ⓘ
championshipLosingCoach Paddy Driscoll ⓘ
championshipWinningCoach Jim Lee Howell ⓘ
commissioner Bert Bell ⓘ
conference Eastern Conference ⓘ
Western Conference ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
decidedBy 1956 NFL Championship Game ⓘ
easternConferenceChampion New York Giants ⓘ
endYear 1956 ⓘ
hadDraft 1956 NFL Draft ⓘ
league National Football League ⓘ
mostValuablePlayer Frank Gifford ⓘ
MVPPosition halfback ⓘ
MVPTeam New York Giants ⓘ
nextSeason 1957 NFL season ⓘ
notablePlayer Charlie Conerly ⓘ
Frank Gifford ⓘ
Harlan Hill ⓘ
Roosevelt Brown ⓘ
Sam Huff ⓘ
notableTeam Chicago Bears ⓘ
Cleveland Browns ⓘ
Detroit Lions ⓘ
Los Angeles Rams ⓘ
New York Giants ⓘ
numberOfGamesPerTeam 12 ⓘ
numberOfTeams 12 ⓘ
partOf history of the National Football League ⓘ
playoffFormat singleChampionshipGame ⓘ
previousSeason 1956 NFL season self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: 1955 NFL season
regularSeason 1956 NFL regular season ⓘ
ruleChange ballHashMarksMovedCloserToCenterOfField ⓘ
grabbingFaceMaskOfBallCarrierPenalized ⓘ
runnerUp Chicago Bears ⓘ
seasonNumber 37 ⓘ
sport American football ⓘ
startYear 1956 ⓘ
televisionPartner CBS ⓘ
westernConferenceChampion Chicago Bears ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NFL Championship Game 1956 → seasonOfLeague → 1956 NFL season ⓘ
subject surface form: 1956 NFL Championship Game
1956 NFL season → previousSeason → 1956 NFL season self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: 1955 NFL season