1951 Pro Bowl

The 1951 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's inaugural Pro Bowl which featured the league's outstanding performers from the 1950 season. The game was played on Sunday, January 14, 1951, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California in front of 53,676 fans. The American Conference squad defeated the National Conference by a score of 28–27. The player were selected by a vote of each conferences coaches along with the sports editors of the newspapers in the Los Angeles area, where the game was contested.

1951 National–American Pro Bowl
Members of the 1951 American Conference offense.
Top row, from left right: Geri, Motley, Graham and Dudley. Bottom row, from left to right: Pihos, DeRogatis, Barnes, Bednarik, Fischer, Weinmeister and Speedie.
American Conference National Conference
28 27
Head coach:
Paul Brown
(Cleveland Browns)		 Head coach:
Joe Stydahar
(Los Angeles Rams)
1234 Total
American Conference 77140 28
National Conference 71370 27
DateJanuary 14, 1951
StadiumMemorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
MVPOtto Graham (Cleveland Browns)
Attendance53,676
TV in the United States
Networknot televised

The National team was led by the Los Angeles Rams' Joe Stydahar while Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns coached the American stars. The same two coaches had faced each other three weeks earlier in the 1950 NFL Championship Game in which Brown's team had also defeated Stydahar's. Both coaches employed the T formation offense in the Pro Bowl.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Otto Graham was named the game's outstanding player.

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