NFL 1950

1950 NFL season
Regular season
season	September 16, 1950 - December 10, 1950
American Conf. Champions	Cleveland Browns
National Conf. Champions	Los Angeles Rams
Championship game
NFL Champion	Cleveland Browns
NFL season  <1949 1951>

The 1950 NFL season was the 31st season of the National Football League (NFL). The Cleveland Browns emerged as the winner of this season . These were represented for the first time in the league after they were taken over together with the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Colts in the merger of the All-America Football Conference with the NFL. Another change resulted from the renaming of the New York Bulldogs to the New York Yanks.

Merger with the AAFC

In 1949, representatives of the All-America Football Conference agreed with representatives of the NFL on a merger in 1950 that would add three former AAFC teams to the ten NFL teams. This was originally supposed to be accompanied by a change of the league name to the National American Football League . This should represent a merger instead of a takeover to the outside world. In March 1950, however, Commissioner Bert Bell announced that the NFL name would remain.

The AAFC teams were considered by many to be athletically inferior to the NFL teams, which is why there was some resistance to the merger. For the avoidance of doubt, a game between the reigning champions of the NFL and AAFC was planned on September 16, 1950, one day before the official start of the league. This decision gave the league a boost in popularity and a lot of media attention, as never before for a single game. 71,000 spectators saw the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Philadelphia Eagles in the Eagles' stadium, which was actually designed for only 60,000 people. The AAFC representatives from Cleveland finally defeated the Eagles with a surprising 35:10 for many observers. The Browns' strong passing game played a major role in this. The Head Coach of the Eagles Earle Neale accused the Browns of lack of hardship because they had shied away from the running game against the Eagles. In the second leg, however, the Browns beat the Eagles again, this time without a single full pass.

For the Browns it went very well in their first season, they qualified for the play-offs with ten wins in twelve games and ultimately even won the championship. For the other two AAFC teams, however, things weren't quite as successful. The 49ers could only achieve three wins and found themselves in the lower half of the table. The Colts even won a single game and broke up after the season.

Regular season

As part of the merger, the previous divisions were renamed. The Eastern Division became the American Conference and was supplemented by the Cleveland Browns. The Cardinals exchanged conference with the Yanks. The Western Division became the National Conference and was expanded to include the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts.

American Conference team S. N SQ P + P- Cleveland Browns 10 2 .833 310 144 New York Giants 10 2 .833 268 150 Philadelphia Eagles 6th 6th .500 254 141 Pittsburgh Steelers 6th 6th .500 180 195 Chicago Cardinals 5 7th .417 233 287 Washington Redskins 3 9 .250 232 326

National Conference team S. N SQ P + P- Los Angeles Rams 9 3 .750 466 309 Chicago Bears 9 3 .750 279 207 New York Yanks 7th 5 .583 366 367 Detroit Lions 6th 6th .500 321 285 Green Bay Packers 3 9 .250 244 406 San Francisco 49ers 3 9 .250 213 300 Baltimore Colts 1 11 .083 213 462

Legend:

S iege	N iederlagen	U nentschieden	SQ games won (relative)
P + points made	P− opposing points	Championship participant

Play-offs

Due to the same win / loss ratio and the lack of tie-breaker regulations, a play-off game had to be played for both conferences to determine the championship game participant. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Chicago Bears 24:14, while the Cleveland Browns defeated the New York Giants 8: 3.

NFL Championship Game

The championship game took place on December 24, 1950 at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.

	1	2	3	4th	total
Cleveland Browns	7th	6th	7th	10	30th
Los Angeles Rams	14th	0	14th	0	28

particularities

The Los Angeles Rams became the first NFL team to feature all games on television in 1950.

Quarterback Jim Hardy of the Chicago Cardinals turned the game against the Philadelphia Eagles record for most turnovers in a single game. In the 7:45 defeat he threw eight interceptions and fumbled twice.

Individual evidence

1. ^ A look at the NFL in the fabulous 1950s. In: apnews.com. AP NEWS, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 47 f .
3. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 48 .
4. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 51 .
5. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 52 .
6. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 53 .
7. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 53, 196 .
8. ^ The NFL: 100 Years of Football. In: latimes.com. Retrieved October 27, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Dieter Hoch, Holger Korber, Dirk Ladwig: The history of the NFL: From the small beginnings to the rise of the largest professional league in the world . Huddle Verlags GmbH , 2016, ISBN 978-3-9811390-6-8 , p. 53 f .