Dallas Texans (NFL)

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Dallas Texans 1952 NFL logo
The Dallas Texans played in the National Football League for one season, 1952, with a record of 1–11. A group led by Texas millionaire Giles Miller bought the remnants of Ted Collins's Boston Yanks/New York Bulldogs/Yanks franchise, which had played from 1944 to 1948 in Boston, and from 1949 to 1951 in New York, from the league. Home games were scheduled to be played at the Cotton Bowl.

Miller thought that Texas, with its longstanding support of college football, would be a natural fit for the NFL. However, they proved to be one of the worst teams in NFL history. The first game, against the New York Giants, set the tone for the season. While the Texans managed to get the first touchdown, they missed the extra point. They never found the end zone again and lost 24-6.

Only 17,499 fans showed up at the Cotton Bowl (capacity 75,000) for that game, and attendance continued to dwindle as the losses piled up. Unable to meet payroll, Miller returned the team to the league with five games to go in the season. The NFL moved the franchise's operations to Hershey, Pennsylvania (though it kept the "Dallas Texans" name). It also moved the team's last three home games to the road.

The team wound up playing one of its final two "home" games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise's only win occurred — a 27-23 win over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, who was so confident that his team would win, he started his entire second string team — in front of an estimated 3,000 fans on Thanksgiving Day. The victory helped the otherwise failing franchise avoid what would have been the first winless regular season since 1944. Both the Brooklyn Tigers and Card-Pitt — the latter being the merged (for that year) Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers — finished 0-10-0 in 1944, an unenviable feat that would later be surpassed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team that lost all of its fourteen regular season games in 1976. At the Bears vs. Texans game in 1952, head coach Jim Phelan suggested because of the small turnout — where a high school game earlier outdrew the NFL contest (a measure of the NFL's low status on the sports scene at the time)— that instead of being introduced on the field, they should "go into the stands and shake hands with each fan." George Taliaferro, the team's leading rusher was selected to the Pro Bowl at the end of the season.

Following the season, the NFL awarded the remains of the Texans operation to a Baltimore-based group headed by Carroll Rosenbloom, who used it to start the Baltimore Colts. However, the Colts (now based in Indianapolis) do not consider themselves a continuation of the Yanks/Bulldogs/Yankees/Texans franchise.

In 1960, the league made a second venture into Dallas and established what would become a more successful team, the Dallas Cowboys. Also in that year, the American Football League began with its own Dallas Texans; that team moved after winning the 1962 AFL Championship and became the Kansas City Chiefs.

Pro Football Hall of Famers

Notable players

First round draft selection

Season-by-season

Year W L T Finish Coach
195211106th NationalJim Phelan

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Defunct National Football League franchises
1920s Chicago Tigers (1920) | Cleveland Tigers/Indians (1920-21) | Muncie Flyers (1920-21) | Rochester Jeffersons (1920-25) | Rock Island Independents (1920-25) | Akron Pros/Indians (1920-26) | Canton Bulldogs (1920-26) | Columbus Panhandles/Tigers (1920-26) | Hammond Pros (1920-26) | Detroit Heralds/Tigers/Panthers/Wolverines (1920-28) | Buffalo All-Americans/Bisons/Rangers (1920-29) | Dayton Triangles (1920-29) | Cincinnati Celts (1921) | New York Giants (Brickley's) (1921) | Tonawanda Kardex (1921) | Washington Senators (1921) | Evansville Crimson Giants (1921-22) | Louisville Brecks/Colonels (1921-23, 1926) | Minneapolis Marines/Red Jackets (1921-24, 1929-31) | Oorang Indians (1922-23) | Toledo Maroons (1922-23) | Racine Legion/Tornadoes (1922-24, 1926) | Milwaukee Badgers (1922-26) | St. Louis All Stars (1923) | Cleveland Indians/Bulldogs (1923-27) | Duluth Kelleys/Eskimos (1923-27) | Kenosha Maroons (1924) | Kansas City Blues/Cowboys (1924-26) | Frankford Yellow Jackets (1924-31) | Pottsville Maroons/Boston Bulldogs (1925-29) | Providence Steam Roller (1925-31) | Brooklyn Lions (1926) | Hartford Blues (1926) | Los Angeles Buccaneers (1926) | New York Yankees (1927-28) | Orange/Newark Tornadoes (1929-30) | Staten Island Stapletons (1929-32)
1930s Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers (1930-44) | Cleveland Indians (1931) | Cincinnati Reds (1933-34) | St. Louis Gunners (1934)
1940s-50s Boston Yanks (1944-48) | Baltimore Colts (1950) | New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949-51) | Dallas Texans (1952)
Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932. Originally known as Fair Park Bowl, it is located in Fair Park, site of the State Fair in Dallas, Texas, USA. It has a natural grass surface and a capacity of 68,252 seats.
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New York Giants
Year founded: 1925

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City East Rutherford, New Jersey
Other nicknames Big Blue Wrecking Crew, Big Blue, G-Men, The Jints
Team colors Royal Blue, Red, Gray, and White
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touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football. To score a touchdown, one team must take the football into the opposite end zone. This can be done by rushing, in which the ball carrier carries the football forward into the end zone.
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Extra Point is a twice-daily, two-minute segment on ESPN Radio. The AM edition airs Monday through Saturday at various times between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. ET, and the PM edition airs Monday through Friday between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET.
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end zone is a term in both Canadian football and American football. The end zone is the area between the end line and goal line bounded by the sidelines. It is bordered on all sides by a white line indicating its beginning and end points.
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Hershey is an unincorporated community within Derry Township in Dauphin County in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 14 miles east of Harrisburg. The community has no legal status as an incorporated municipality and all municipal services are provided by Derry Township.
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Rubber Bowl is a stadium in Akron, Ohio. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the University of Akron "Zips" and high school football on Fridays. It is named after the predominance of the tire industry in Akron.
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Akron, Ohio

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Nickname: The Rubber Capital of the World
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Location within Summit County, Ohio
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Chicago Bears
Year founded: 1919

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City Chicago, Illinois
Other nicknames Da Bears, The Monsters of the Midway
Team colors Midnight Navy and Burnt Orange
Head Coach Lovie Smith
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George Halas

February 2 1895
Chicago, Illinois
October 31 1983 (age 88)
Chicago, Illinois

Position(s)| Head Coach
Wide receiver
Defensive end
College| University of Illinois

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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field.
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Card Pitt was the name for the team created by the temporary merger of two National Football League (NFL) teams, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Cardinals, during the 1944
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Pittsburgh Steelers
Year founded: 1933

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City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Team colors Black and Gold
Head Coach Mike Tomlin
Owner Dan Rooney

Mascot Steely McBeam

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Year founded: 1976

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City Tampa, Florida
Other nicknames The Bucs, Pewter Pirates
Team colors Buccaneer Red, Black, Pewter, and Orange
Head Coach Jon Gruden
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Jim Phelan (born March 19, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) was a collegiate basketball coach for Mount Saint Mary's University. Jim was a 1951 graduate of La Salle University and played one season for the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA.
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George Taliaferro

January 8 1927 (1927--) (age 80)
Gates, Tennessee

Position(s)| HB, QB
College| Indiana
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In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League (NFL). It is played at the end of the season after the Super Bowl, the league championship game.
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City of Baltimore
Downtown Baltimore

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Nickname: Charm City,[1] Mob Town,[2][3] B-more, Crabtown, The City of Firsts
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Carroll Rosenbloom (March 5, 1907 - April 2, 1979) was a colorful football owner of two teams, the Baltimore Colts and the Los Angeles Rams, now
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The Indianapolis Colts are a professional football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are 2006 champions of the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football League (NFL).

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City of Indianapolis

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Nickname: Indy, the Circle City, and (less commonly) Naptown
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Dallas Cowboys
Year founded: 1960

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City Irving, Texas
Other nicknames America's Team, The Boys
Team colors Silver, Navy Blue
Head Coach Wade Phillips
Owner Jerry Jones


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Sport American Professional Football
Founded 1959
First Season 1960
Last Season 1969
No. of teams 8 (1960), 9 (1966), 10 (1968-1969)
Country  United States

Merged 1970, with NFL

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1959 1960 1961 - 1962 - 1963 1964 1965

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Kansas City Chiefs
Year founded: 1960

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City Kansas City, Missouri

Team colors Red, white and gold
Head Coach Herman Edwards
Owner The Hunt Family
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of the National Football League (NFL). It opened in Canton, Ohio, United States, on September 7 1963 with 17 charter inductees.
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Art Donovan

May 5 1925 (1925--) (age 82)
Bronx, New York

Position(s)| DT
College| Boston College

Pro Bowls| 1953, 1954, 1955,
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