1947 AAFC season

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The 1947 AAFC season was the second season of the All-America Football Conference. 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.

After the end of the previous season, the

Baltimore Colts.[1] The Buffalo Bisons also chose to rebrand their franchise, holding a contest to determine the new name: the winner requested the new name to be the Buffalo Bills, named after "Buffalo Bill" Cody.[2]

Draft

The league's first collegiate draft was held on December 20–21, 1946 in

was the first overall selection.

Regular season

Week One

The 1947 regular season of the All-America Football Conference kicked off on Friday, August 29 with a game between the

Washington Redskins coach Dudley DeGroot was able to pull off a victory against the Rockets with a score of 24–21.[3]

The week continued with two games on Sunday, August 31, with the San Francisco 49ers beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 23–7, in front of 31,874 people at Kezar Stadium,[5] and the Buffalo Bills beating the New York Yankees 28–24, in front of 32,385 people.[6]

1947 AAFC final standings

W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pct. = Winning Percentage
PF = Points Scored For, PA = Point Scored Against

Championship game

AAFC Championship: Cleveland 14, New York 3 (December 14 @ New York)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Craig R. Coenen, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: the National Football League, 1920-1967. University of Tennessee Press, 2005; pp. 126.
  2. ^ Important dates in Bills history: How the Bills got their name
  3. ^ a b c "Los Angeles Dons at Chicago Rockets - August 29th, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  4. ^ "Miami Seahawks at Cleveland Browns - September 6th, 1946". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  5. ^ "Brooklyn Dodgers at San Francisco 49ers - August 31st, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  6. ^ "New York Yankees at Buffalo Bills - August 31st, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.