Tragedy struck as NFL Commissioner Bert Bell died of a heart attack on October 11 at Philadelphia's Franklin Field while watching the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers play. League Treasurer Austin Gunsel was named interim commissioner for the rest of the season. The Chicago Cardinals played their final season in the Windy City before relocating to St. Louis, MO for the following season. After the second week, when the 1–1–0 Giants had to share the Eastern Conference lead with all five of the other clubs, the Giants won seven of the next eight games to clinch the title in Week Ten. In the Western Conference, the San Francisco 49ers, who had come close (1952, 1953, 1954 and 1957) several times since joining the NFL, were 6–1 and had a two-game lead over their closest rival, the 4–3 Colts. In Week Nine, though, the 49ers lost in Baltimore, 45–14 (November 22) and they shared the lead at 6–3–0. Two weeks later, San Francisco had the home field advantage when they faced the Colts for a rematch. Baltimore won again, 34–14, and clinched the title the following week. The 1959 NFL Championship Game was played on December 27, 1959 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. The game was a rematch of the 1958 championship game that went into overtime. The Baltimore Colts had won the Western Conference with a record of 9–3 while the New York Giants had won the Eastern Conference with a record of 10–2. Once again, the game went down to the last quarter, but the Colts did not need any heroics in overtime as they scored 24 straight points in the fourth quarter after trailing 9-7, to go on to win 31-16, and lay claim to the 1959 NFL Championship.