1947 AAFC season

American football season September 2023 September 2023 United States right AAFC teams: 8px West, 8px East Map of the locations for the teams of the 1947 AAFC season 400 United States Yellow pog.svg 8 80 Browns bottom 41.507 -81.697 United States Yellow pog.svg 8 80 49ers top 37.767 -122.456 United States Yellow pog.svg 8 80 Dons bottom 34.014 -118.288 United States Yellow pog.svg 8 80 Rockets left 41.862 -87.617 United States Red pog.svg 8 80 Yankees top 40.827 -73.928 United States Red pog.svg 8 80 Bills left 42.905 -78.856 United States Red pog.svg 8 80 Dodgers right 40.665 -73.958 United States Red pog.svg 8 80 Colts bottom 39.329 -76.601 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 Miami Seahawks were $350,000 in debt, with owner Harvey Hester being declared bankrupt, and leaving the AAFC with no option to shut down the franchise. They would be replaced in the Eastern division by the Baltimore Colts.Craig R. Coenen, From Sandlots to the Super Bowl: the National Football League, 1920-1967. University of Tennessee Press, 2005; pp. 126. 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.Important dates in Bills history: How the Bills got their name Draft 1947 AAFC Draft The league's first collegiate draft was held on December 20–21, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernie Case 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 Los Angeles Dons and the Chicago Rockets.https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194708290cra.htm Los Angeles Dons at Chicago Rockets - August 29th, 1947 pro-football-reference.com March 23, 2019 The game was attended by 41,812 people, only about 70% of that of last season.https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194609060cle.htm Miami Seahawks at Cleveland Browns - September 6th, 1946 pro-football-reference.com March 23, 2019 Former Washington Redskins coach Dudley DeGroot was able to pull off a victory against the Rockets with a score of 24–21. 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,https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194708310sfo.htm Brooklyn Dodgers at San Francisco 49ers - August 31st, 1947 pro-football-reference.com March 23, 2019 and the Buffalo Bills beating the New York Yankees 28–24, in front of 32,385 people.https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194708310bba.htm New York Yankees at Buffalo Bills - August 31st, 1947 pro-football-reference.com March 23, 2019 1947 AAFC final standings W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pct. = Winning Percentage PF = Points Scored For, PA = Point Scored Against y Championship game 1947 Cleveland Browns season#AAFC championship game AAFC Championship: Cleveland 14, New York 3 (December 14 @ New York) Footnotes 2