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Philadelphia Eagles Franchise History
The Philadelphia Eagles were founded in 1933 when the NFL granted an expansion franchise to Lud Wray and Bert Bell. In 1931 the Frankford Yellow Jackets, Philadelphia’s NFL franchise went bankrupt and folded up in the middle of the season. This left an opening for Wray and Bell who paid an entry fee of $2,500 to start an NFL team. The two named the team the Philadelphia Eagles and Bell became the president and general manager while Wray became head coach. Only one player from the Yellow Jackets ended up on the new Eagles team. The first ten years was tough for the Eagles as they never won more than four games in a single season. Lud Wray sold has interest in the team to Art Rooney in 1940. Rooney had sold the Pittsburgh Steelers to Alexis Thompson before purchasing his part of the Eagles. Bell and Rooney eventually traded franchises with Thompson and the organizations switched cities. Even though this switch occurred the NFL did not consider this a franchise move. In 1943 the team temporarily merged with the Steelers because of the manpower shortage during the war. The team became known as the “Steagles” during this year. Thompson ended up selling the team to a syndicate of 100 buyers in 1949. In 1963 there were only 65 shareholders left out of the original 100 and they sold the team to Jerry Wolman for $5,505,000. Wolman held onto the team until 1969 when he went bankrupt and the team fell under the administration of a federal bankruptcy court. The Eagles were eventually sold to Leonard Tose who was one of the members of the syndicate that purchased the team in 1949.
The Eagles moved from Franklin Field to the new Veterans Stadium in 1971 and they won six games in the first season playing in the new stadium. They continued have unexceptional seasons and in 1975 Dick Vermeil was hired as head coach. He led the team to the playoffs in 1978 and to Super Bowl XV in 1981. The Eagles lost to the Oakland Raiders by a score of 27 – 10 in the Super Bowl. Vermeil quit after the 1982 season which was shortened by the NFL strike and Marion Campbell, the defensive coordinator replaced Vermeil as head coach. Leonard Tose was forced to sell the team to Norman Braman and Ed Leibowitz in 1985 in order to pay off his gambling debts. Braman turned around in 1986 and bought out Leibowitz’s share of the team. Buddy Ryan took over as head coach in 1986 and took the team to the playoffs in 1988, 89 and 90 but they never won a playoff game and he was fired at the end of the 1990 season. Braman sold the team to Jeffrey Lurie in 1994 and he remains the owner to this day. The Eagles appeared in Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 only to lose to the New England Patriots 24 – 21. The Eagles had several head coaches through the years after Buddy Ryan but in 2017 Doug Peterson led them to their first Super Bowl win. The Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII by a score of 41 – 33.
After calling Veterans Stadium home since 1971, Lincoln Financial Stadium was built in 2003 and replaced Veterans Stadium as the Eagles home field and it continues to be there home today. The Eagles are one of four teams in the NFC East. The other teams that make up the division are the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys.
