John from Weatherford, Texas
In your articles, you write about the Indian Packing Company. Yet the Pro Shop featured Acme Packing gear. How did we get from Indian to Acme?
The Indian Packing Company, a booming wartime industry, sponsored the Packers in 1919 and 1920, the first two seasons of their existence as a semipro team. On Aug. 11, 1919, when the Packers held their first meeting, Curly Lambeau was working for Indian Packing as a receiving clerk, based on his marriage license dated four days later. Indian Packing, an offspring of several companies, had filed Articles of Incorporation with the Register of Deeds in Brown County on Nov.