Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American American football team that played in the National Football League ( NFL).
Team History
In 1930 bought Bill Dwyer and the American football player Jack Depler for $ 2,500 sports franchise in the Dayton Triangles and founded in New York City, the Brooklyn Dodgers. The name of the team was inspired by the name of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team from Major League Baseball. Both teams played at Ebbets Field. Depler also served as head coach of the Dodgers. A satisfactory first season in 1930, the team won seven out of twelve games and lost four times, was a bad season in 1931 against. Twelve of the 14 games were lost. For sporty poor showing financial problems were added. After the season was later a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Benny Friedman new player coach of the team. Sporty ran it with him, however, no better and Friedman had his position as coach give back, but remained the team's players. The team had made in the past few years, a loss of $ 35,000, and the two owners sold for U.S. $ 25,000, the Dodgers to the two football players of the New York Giants Shipwreck Kelly and Chris Cagle. Both ran on as a player for the Dodgers.
The team remained athletic success to the year 1933. In 1939, the Dodgers had drawn attention to himself on television. Your game against the Philadelphia Eagles on 22 October, was the first television broadcast of a football game. The Dodgers won with 23:14. Only with the commitment of Jock Sutherland, who coached the Dodgers in 1940 and 1941, the performance of the team were better. In both years, one failed just wide of the catchment in the NFL championship game. From the year 1942, the Second World War, the team from Brooklyn busied. The audience left something to be desired, it was difficult to find suitable players. In 1944, the now renamed "Brooklyn Tigers" team lost all ten games. 1945, was forced with the Boston Yanks enter into a lottery syndicate. After this season, the team employed a game mode. Many players of the Tigers were picked up by the newly formed team of the New York Yankees, who had settled in the newly formed All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ). The AAFC also founded a team with the name " Brooklyn Dodgers ".
Members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Morris Badgro
- Benny Friedman
- Bruiser Kinard
- Ace Parker
Other well-known players
- Ralph Kercheval
- Pug Manders
- Ollie Sansen
- Perry Schwartz