The 1925 Chicago Bears season was their sixth regular season completed in the National Football League. The team was unable to improve on their 6–1–4 record from 1924 and finished with a 9–5–3 record under head coach George Halas earning them a seventh-place finish in the team standings, their worst showing to that date. However, the 1925 Bears were the most notable team in the young NFL's history to that point all because of the addition of college players, including Red Grange. Season recap The Bears started slow, just like in 1924, opening the season with two ties and a loss to Green Bay (the Packers' first win ever over the Bears). The Bears regrouped, however, and won 6 of their next 7. During the fall, Bears owners George Halas and Edward Sternaman reached an agreement with C. C. Pyle to sign Illinois Fighting Illini football star Red Grange, a deal that included organizing a barnstorming tour that spanned 19 games and 67 days. As part of their agreement, the Bears received 50 percent of the ticket gate, while Pyle and Grange got the other half. The negotiations took longer than the Bears owners had expected, with Halas recalling in 1967 that he and Sternaman "figured that a middle-aged small-town theater operator who wore spats might not prove too tough a negotiator for a couple of bright young extra football executives from Chicago. But then again, we had also made other mistakes." On November 22, after the Illini season ended, Grange formally announced his intention to sign with the Bears. That same day, he attended the Bears' 21–0 win over the Packers. Grange made his NFL debut in the Bears' Thanksgiving Day game against the Chicago Cardinals on November 26. An estimated 40,000 attended what ended in a scoreless tie. In the next game against the Columbus Tigers, Grange threw a touchdown pass as the Bears won 14–13. Shortly after, the Bears signed Grange's Illinois teammate Earl Britton. Between December 2 and December 13, the Bears played an astounding eight games, during which the team lived in a special railway car, with its women's restroom converted into a makeshift training room. The first game was against the Donnelly All-Stars, a team sponsored by a local mortician, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. The Bears won 39–6, though only 8,000 attended due to poor weather and being played on a Wednesday.