The 29th College All-Star game between the Green Bay Packers and the College All-Stars, played in August 1962 at Chicago’s Soldier Field in the throes of the summer heat, was a tough game for the College All-Stars. The Packers, with Head Coach Vince Lombardi and QB Bart Starr, won 42-20 over the All-Stars, coached by Otto Graham.

In the 1930s and 1940s, before the NFL players were training year-round for the sport of American football, college players could rival the pros. At that time, one of the major American sporting events of the year brought together the reigning NFL champions to compete with a group of the best college players, the College All-Stars.

During the early decades, the All-Stars often beat the pros, but by the 1960s and 1970s the Pros led. Professional American football had become the U.S.’s most popular sport, and with it came money for the pros playing it. While in the 1930s and 1940s great college players didn’t necessarily turn pro, by the 1960s and 1970s the best college players strove for a pro football career. With the pros now training year round, the college all-stars failed to reach the number of wins they had had in the early decades of the NFL vs. the All-Stars. By 1976, the competition came to an end.
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