The Boston Yanks was a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts that played from 1944 to 1948. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The team played its home games at Fenway Park. Team owner Ted Collins, who managed singer Kate Smith, picked the name "Yanks" because he originally wanted to run a team that played at New York City's Yankee Stadium. Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith ( May 1, 1907 &ndash June 17, 1986) was an American Singer, best known for her rendition The City of New York The original Yankee Stadium is a Stadium located in The Bronx in New York City. Unfortunately, the Yanks could only manage a 2-8 record during its first regular season.
Due to a shortage of players caused by World War II, the Yanks were merged with the Brooklyn Tigers for the 1945 season, and styled as the Boston Yanks. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including 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. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The merged team played four home games in Boston and one in New York. But fans from neither cities cared as they finished with a 3-6-1 record.
When Brooklyn Tigers owner Dan Topping announced his intentions to join the All-America Football Conference in 1946, his NFL team was revoked and all of its players were assigned to the Yanks. Daniel Reid Topping ( June 11 1912 - May 18 1974) was a part owner and president of the New York Yankees baseball team from 1945 to The All-America Football Conference (AAFC was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League (NFL from 1946 After three continuous losing seasons, Collins finally was allowed to move the Yanks to New York and renamed it the New York Bulldogs. The New York Yanks American football team started in the National Football League in 1949 after Boston Yanks owner Ted Collins They played in the Polo Grounds, sharing it with the football Giants. The team was renamed the Yanks in 1950, when it moved to Yankee Stadium, adding many new players, most of them from defunct All-America Conference teams. Ted Collins sold the team back to the NFL in January of 1952. The franchise was awarded to a Dallas group in 1952 and the team name became the Dallas Texans. The Dallas Texans played in the National Football League for one season 1952 with a record of 1–11 After drawing very few fans to four games in the Cotton Bowl, the Dallas owners gave up and the NFL took the team over for the rest of the season, during which the Texans had to play all their games on the road. The Cotton Bowl is a Stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as "The House that Doak Built" due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker At the end of the season the franchise was disbanded. Finally, in January of 1953, the holdings of the defunct Dallas Texans were sold to Carroll Rosenbloom and the franchise was moved to Baltimore, Maryland as the Colts. Carroll Rosenbloom ( March 5, 1907 - April 2, 1979) was the owner of two US football teams the Baltimore Colts (now the Indianapolis The Indianapolis Colts are a professional football team based in Indianapolis Indiana.
The Boston Yanks are the only defunct NFL team ever to have the first overall NFL draft pick. The National Football League draft is an annual Sports draft in which NFL teams select newly-eligible players for their rosters They had it twice in 1944 and 46. Both times they selected a quarterback from the University of Notre Dame: Angelo Bertelli (44) and Frank Dancewicz (46). The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame) (ˌnoʊtɚˈdeɪm is a private Roman Catholic Research university located in Angelo Bortolo Bertelli ( June 18 1921 - June 26 1999) was an American football Quarterback. Francis Joseph "Boley" Dancewicz (October 3 1924 in Lynn Massachusetts – June 26 1985 in Boston Massachusetts) is a former American football
First Round draft selections
- 1944 Angelo Bertelli Back Notre Dame
- 1945 Eddie Prokop Back Georgia Tech
- 1946 Frank Dancewicz Back Notre Dame
- 1947 Fritz Barzilauskas Guard Yale
- 1948 Vaughn Mancha Center Alabama
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Season-by-season
| Year | W | L | T | Finish | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4th East | Herb Kopf |
| 1945 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3rd East | Herb Kopf |
| 1946 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5th East | Herb Kopf |
| 1947 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3rd East | Clipper Smith |
| 1948 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 5th East | Clipper Smith |
| Totals | 14 | 38 | 3 | ||
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