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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		In 1935, the Green Bay Packers Trained in Rhinelander
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:10
	Publish Date:		2019-08-07 05:00:00
	Description:		Professional football teams like the Green Bay Packers are training in anticipation of the 2019 football season right now. This week for A Northwoods Moment in History, Gary Entz looks back on a Green Bay Packers training camp held in 1935 in Rhinelander. Professional football training camps are in session, and many Northwoods residents are paying careful attention to how the Green Bay Packers prepare for the season. Since 1958 the Packers have trained at St. Norbert College. Before 1958 they tried out different locations, and the very first training camp they ever held outside of Green Bay was in Rhinelander prior to the 1935 season. On Saturday August 24, 1935, twenty-four Packers players with then coach Curley Lambeau boarded a bus and departed from Green Bay at about 9:30 in the morning. They made a stop in Elcho and enjoyed a lunch at the Muskie Inn before re-boarding to complete the journey. A large banner over the entrance to the Pinewood Lodge on Lake Thompson bearing the words
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