All-America Football Conference (AAFC) Game Programs Collection

Collection

Identifier: FBP_618

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Scope and Contents

This collection consists of about 100 All-America Football Conference regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs. This collection excludes post-season playoff game programs and all-star game programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, data about the participating teams, and advertisements.

Formats include programs.

Dates

Creation: 1946-1949

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 mid-1940s as rival to the established National Football League (NFL), the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) played four seasons of professional football from 1946 through 1949. The league played its first games in 1946 with eight franchises: Buffalo Bisons, Brooklyn Dodgers, Miami Seahawks, New York Yankees, Chicago Rockets, Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Dons, and San Francisco 49ers. In 1947, the Baltimore Colts replaced the Miami Seahawks, and the Buffalo franchise was renamed the Bills. In 1949, the league featured only seven teams after the Brooklyn and New York franchises merged. In December 1949, the AAFC and NFL merged with the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, and Baltimore Colts joining the NFL. The other AAFC franchises disbanded. The Cleveland Browns won the AAFC championship in all four years of competition.

Extent

.5 Cubic Feet (2 flat boxes (letter))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Programs are arranged alphabetically by issuing (home) franchise, and then chronologically. Programs issued by the same franchise under previously used team names are considered predecessors in a chronological sequence, and are grouped accordingly.