<P> After the 1957 season, the Eagles moved from Connie Mack Stadium to Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania . Franklin Field would seat over 60,000 for the Eagles, whereas Connie Mack had a capacity of 39,000 . The stadium switched from grass to AstroTurf in 1969 . It was the first NFL stadium to use artificial turf . </P> <P> In 1960, the Eagles won their third NFL championship, under the leadership of future Pro Football Hall of Famers Norm Van Brocklin and Chuck Bednarik; the head coach was Buck Shaw . The 1960 Eagles, by a score of 17--13, became the only team to defeat Vince Lombardi and his Green Bay Packers in the playoffs . </P> <P> The Eagles had a decent 1961 season and then fell on hard times in 1962 . Jerry Wolman, after consulting his longtime friend Brandon Sturrock, bought the franchise in 1963 from the "Happy Hundred", a group of investors who owned the team from 1949--1963, for $5,505,000 (equal to $44,004,098 today). </P> <P> In 1969, Leonard Tose bought the Eagles from Wolman for $16,155,000 (equal to $107,807,505 today), then a record for a professional sports franchise . Tose's first official act was to fire Coach Joe Kuharich after a disappointing 24--41--1 record during his five - year reign . He followed this by naming former Eagles receiving great Pete Retzlaff as General Manager and Jerry Williams as coach . </P>

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