Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference.

Foundation

In 1944 was founded as a rival league to the National Football League ( NFL), the AAFC to life. Founded as the league by a sports journalist from Chicago who could gather many interested investors in Football around. The League awarded a total of eight franchises. A player eligibility acquired Ray Ryan and William D. Cox, who founded the Dodgers in Brooklyn. Each team was responsible for the team composition itself. The AAFC took in 1946 on the operation of gambling.

Achievements

The Dodgers, who fought out their home games at Ebbets Field, were trained in 1946 by the later a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Cliff Battles. The Dodgers denied the first preseason game of the AAFC in front of 20,000 spectators against the Buffalo Bisons. The game ended in a draw 14:14. It should be one of the few highlights of this season. The Dodgers won only three 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 dismissed and replaced by Carl Voyles, but could not improve the performance of the teams. After 1948, only two games were won and failed to economic success, the Dodgers were annexed to the New York Yankees, who in turn in 1949 had set the game mode.

Members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

• Cliff Battles

Other well-known players

• Glenn Dobbs
• Bob Hörnschemeyer