Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference .
founding
In 1944, the AAFC was launched as a competitive league for the National Football League (NFL). The league was founded by a sports journalist from Chicago , who was able to gather numerous investors interested in football. The league awarded a total of eight franchises . Ray Ryan and William D. Cox, who founded the Dodgers in Brooklyn , were eligible to play. Each team was responsible for putting the team together. The AAFC began playing in 1946.
successes
The Dodgers, who in Ebbets Field fought out their home games were in 1946 by the later a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Cliff Battles trained . The Dodgers played the AAFC's first preparation game in front of 20,000 spectators against the Buffalo Bisons . The game ended in a 14:14 draw. It should remain one of the few highlights of the season. The Dodgers only won three out of 14 games. The 1947 season was no better for the Dodgers. Again only three games were won and the team had nothing to do with the outcome of the championship. After this season Battles was fired and replaced by Carl Voyles, who could not improve the performance of the teams. After only two games were won in 1948 and economic success failed to materialize, the Dodgers were affiliated with the New York Yankees , who in turn had to stop playing in 1949.
Members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Other well-known players
Web links
- History of the New York Yankees
- History of the AAFC ( Memento of February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 61 kB)