The New York Yankees were a professional

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team that played in the

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(AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. The team played in

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and often played in front of sold-out crowds . They were owned by

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, who transferred the team from the NFL

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, retaining many of the same players. The team's coach was

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, who had coached the

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in the early 1940s. Former NFL player Jim Barber served as an assistant coach under Flaherty. The Yankees appeared in the 1946 AAFC championship game, but lost to the

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by a score of 14–9. The same two teams appeared in the championship game the following year, with the Browns winning again 14–3. Before the 1949 season, the

football team folded and merged into the Yankees, which became the Brooklyn-New York Yankees, but this was the final season of the AAFC, which was then absorbed by the NFL. The Yankees players were divided between the

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and

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, who played as the

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starting in 1950.

Players of note

* Brad Ecklund * Nate Johnson * Jack Russell * Spec Sanders * Otto Schnellbacher *

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* Bob Sweiger *Jordan Jenkins *

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Pro Football Hall of Famers

Season records

, - , colspan="6" align="center" style="color:white; background-color:#041E42;", New York Yankees , - ,

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

, , 10 , , 3 , , 1 , , 1st AAFC East , , Lost to Cleveland, 14–9, in AAFC Championship Game , - ,

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...

, , 11 , , 2 , , 1 , , 1st AAFC East , , Lost to Cleveland, 14–3, in AAFC Championship Game , - , 1948 , , 6 , , 8 , , 0 , , 3rd AAFC East , , align="center", Did Not Qualify , - , colspan="6" align="center" style="color:white; background-color:#041E42;", Brooklyn-New York Yankees , - ,

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

, , 8 , , 4 , , 0 , , 3rd AAFC , , Lost to San Francisco, 17–7, in AAFC Semifinal Playoffs , - !Totals , , 35 , , 17 , , 2 , colspan="2",

References

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