American Football League (AFL) Team Yearbooks Collection

Collection

Identifier: FBP 571

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Scope and Contents

This collection consists of American Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Formats include yearbooks.

Dates

Creation: 1961-1969

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical / Historical

Founded in the late 1950s, by investors who were unable to obtain franchise in the established National Football League, the American Football League formed during the late 1950s. The AFL was in direct competition with the NFL during the early 1960s, with leagues bidding on players and sometimes raiding rosters in the other league. By 1966, owners in the NFL and the AFL reached an agreement for cooperation and collaboration between the two former rivals. The first championship game—later renamed the Super Bowl—occured in January 1967, and the two leagues fully merged in 1970.