[1][2] Players 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.

The Pro-Bowl was initially envisioned as a comparable post-season spectacle, held in sunny Southern California in January in the capacious Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum following conclusion of the regular season and World Championship Game.

The decision was made to relaunch the All-Star games under the "Pro Bowl" moniker by the league's 13 owners, meeting in Philadelphia over the first weekend of June 1950.

[6] Bell specified that provision must be made that each participating player should receive at least $500 plus traveling expenses for the game to be formally approved by the league office.

[6] The door was left open by Bell to co-sponsorship of the event by the publishers and the Shriners, with a July 1 deadline for a working agreement to be hashed out.