1947 AAFC season
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
Draft
The league's first collegiate draft was held on December 20–21, 1946 in
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
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
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Championship game
AAFC Championship: Cleveland 14, New York 3 (December 14 @ New York)
Footnotes
- ^ Craig R. Coenen, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: the National Football League, 1920-1967. University of Tennessee Press, 2005; pp. 126.
- ^ Important dates in Bills history: How the Bills got their name
- ^ a b c "Los Angeles Dons at Chicago Rockets - August 29th, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ "Miami Seahawks at Cleveland Browns - September 6th, 1946". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ "Brooklyn Dodgers at San Francisco 49ers - August 31st, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- ^ "New York Yankees at Buffalo Bills - August 31st, 1947". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved March 23, 2019.