World Grid Crown Won By Pottsville on Berry Boot

By: Steve Lakos

GARMISCH.  Germany  (S&S)- CHARLIE BERRY kicked a filed goal
in the final minute of play to give the Pottsville (Pa.) Maroons a 9-7
victory and history's first football world championship.
     The time was December 1925 and the site: Shibe Park in Philadelphia.
The Maroons of the National Football League were playing Notre Dame-
with the famed "Four Horsemen and Seven Mules" - in the first game
ever arrangedto match the top pro team with against the best collegiate
eleven.
     Berry, who with American League umpire Nester Chylak is instructing
the week-long USAR-EUR baseball officials clinic here, explained the
situation that eventually led to a controversy that now is in the hands
of the NFL for settlement.
     The Maroons had beaten the Chicago Cardinals, 21-7, in a game billed
as the 1925 NFL championship clash.  But, Berry says, records were not
maintained as well in those days as they are today, and history lists the
Cardinals as the 1925 titlists.

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