<P> In March of 1920 a man telephoned me...George Chamberlain and he was general superintendent of the A.E. Staley Company...In 1919, (the company's Fellowship Club) had formed a football team . It had done well against other local teams but Mr. Staley wanted to build it into a team that could compete successfully with the best semi-professional and industrial teams in the country...Mr. Chamberlain asked if I would like to come to Decatur and work for the Staley Company . </P> <P> Originally named the Decatur Staleys, the club was established by the A.E. Staley food starch company of Decatur, Illinois in 1919 as a company team . This was the typical start for several early professional football franchises . The company hired George Halas and Edward "Dutch" Sternaman in 1920 to run the team . The 1920 Decatur Staleys season was their inaugural regular season completed in the newly formed American Professional Football Association (later renamed the National Football League (NFL) in 1922). Full control of the team was turned over to Halas and Sternaman in 1921 . Official team and league records cite Halas as the founder as he took over the team in 1920 when it became a charter member of the NFL . </P> <P> The team relocated to Chicago in 1921, where the club was renamed the Chicago Staleys . Under an agreement reached by Halas and Sternaman with Staley, Halas purchased the rights to the club from Staley for US $100 . </P> <P> In 1922, Halas changed the team name from the Staleys to the Bears . The team moved into Wrigley Field, which was home to the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise . As with several early NFL franchises, the Bears derived their nickname from their city's baseball team (some directly, some indirectly--like the Bears, whose young are called "cubs"). Halas liked the bright orange - and - blue colors of his alma mater, the University of Illinois, and the Bears adopted those colors as their own, albeit in a darker shade of each (the blue is Pantone 5395, navy blue, and the orange is Pantone 1665, similar to burnt orange). </P>

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