Before NFL Films was born in the sixties, a national TV show “Time For Football” covered all the NFL highlights each week throughout the fall. Each weekly Black & White TV show ran almost a half hour and was narrated by Jim Leaming. Here is the final show from the 1957 season – games of Saturday and Sunday, December 14 and 15. All players listed below are named in the narrative, with many others shown also.

• Lew Carpenter scores winning TD in front of over 54,000 fans at Yankee Stadium, as Eastern Champ Browns beat Giants in see-saw game, 34-28. Brother Preston Carpenter also scores TD in big win, with rookie Jim Brown and Lou Groza (2 FG’s) also adding scores.
• L.A. Rams become first NFL club to draw over 1 million fans in one season as Coach Sid Gilman’s Rams knock Baltimore Colts out of title picture at the Coliseum. Great shots of Norm Van Brocklin, Jon Arnett, Weeb Eubank, Unitas, Ameche and Lenny Moore. Van Brocklin tosses four TD passes in 37-21 win!
• Redskin kicker Sam Baker’s 12-yd TD run on Washington’s fake 4^th qtr FG attempt is game-winning play in close 10-3 tribal victory over Pittsburgh Steelers at old Griffith Stadium.
• Despite Ed Brown to Bobby Watkins TD pass and two George Blanda FG’s for Bears, Lions remain tied for Western Conference lead with three TD’s in second half rally to pull out crucial 21-13 victory over Bears at Wrigley Field, Chicago. Tobin Rote, Hopalong Cassady, Dave Middleton and John Henry Johnson.
• Woodley Lewis scores three Cardinal TD’s including game-winner in back and forth Chicago-Philadelphia battle at old Connie Mack Stadium. QB Bobby Thomason scores TD and throws for two more, while Bobby Walston kicks two FG’s in topsey-turvey 31-27 Eagle home loss.
• Joe Perry is the hero of the game with two second half TD’s as 49’ers score all 17 points after intermission in 27-20 win over rookie QB Bart Starr and Green Bay Packers at Kezar Stadium. Gordie Soltau kicks 2 FG’s.