1940 NFL Draft: Oral history – Frank Korch, behind-the-scenes architect of 'Monsters of the Midway'
The fifth NFL Draft was held Dec. 9, 1939, at the Schroeder Hotel, now the Hilton City Center, in downtown Milwaukee. The meeting was conducted in the Empire Ballroom, started at 2 p.m. and was over "within a few hours," according to one …