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  1.                                  He helped the Bears win 
  2.                                  back-to-back NFL cham-
  3.                                  pionships in 1932 and
  4.                                  1933. (The first NFL 
  5.                                  Championship Game was 
  6. played in 1933. Before that, the team that 
  7. finished first in the standings for the regular 
  8. season was named champion.) 
  9.  
  10. Bronko retired in 1937 and became a 
  11. professional wrestler, but he returned to
  12. the Bears in 1943 (at the age of 35), when
  13. many younger players had been drafted to
  14. fight in World War II. Bronko scored the
  15. go-ahead touchdown for the Bears in the
  16. championship game that year.
  17.