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New York Yankees (AAFC)

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Team colors
  
Red, White, Blue

Owner
  
Dan Topping

Home field
  
Yankee Stadium

Years active
  
1946–1949

AAFC Championship wins
  
0

Date founded
  
1946

Based in
  
New York City

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League
  
All-America Football Conference (1946–1949)

Team history
  
New York Yankees (1946–1949)

Head coaches
  
Ray Flaherty (1946–1949)

Folded
  
1949 (merged with BKN in 1949)

The New York Yankees were a professional American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. The team played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and often played in front of sold-out crowds. They were owned by Dan Topping, who transferred the team from the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers, retaining many of the same players. The team's coach was Ray Flaherty, who had coached the Washington Redskins in the early 1940s.

The Yankees appeared in the 1946 AAFC championship game, but lost to the Cleveland Browns by a score of 14-9. The same two teams appeared in the championship game the following year, with the Browns winning again 14-3.

Before the 1949 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers football team folded and merged into the Yankees, which became the Brooklyn-New York Yankees, but this was the final season of the AAFC, which then merged with the NFL. The Yankees players were divided between the New York Giants and New York Bulldogs, who played as the New York Yanks starting in 1950.

Players of note

  • Brad Ecklund
  • Nate Johnson
  • Bruiser Kinard
  • Tom Landry
  • Clarence Parker
  • Jack Russell
  • Spec Sanders
  • Otto Schnellbacher
  • Frank Sinkwich
  • Bob Sweiger
  • Arnie Weinmeister
  • Jordan Jenkins
  • References

    New York Yankees (AAFC) Wikipedia