The 1946 AAFC season was the first season of the All-America Football Conference, a new professional league established to challenge the market dominance of the established National Football League. The league included eight teams, broken up into Eastern and Western divisions, which played a 14-game official schedule, culminating in a league championship game.
The season is significant for its shattering of the color line in the ranks of professional American football, when black athletes Marion Motley and Bill Willis took to the field for the AAFC's Cleveland Browns on September 9, 1946.[1] Both of these stars would later be voted to membership in the Professional Football Hall of Fame.
^Gary Webster, The League That Didn't Exist: A History of the All-America Football Conference, 1946-1949. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2019; pp. 1-2.
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group of lists of All-America Football Conference (AAFC) players who have led the regular season in the most important statistics each year. For the...
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Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL). He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers from 1946 through 1951. Beals grew...
newly formed football league the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949, and played their home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum...
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that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. During the 1949 season, the team was known as the Chicago Hornets. Unlike...
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