The Brooklyn Dodgers was an

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team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1948. The team is unrelated to the Brooklyn Dodgers that played in the

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from 1930 to 1943. The team folded prior to the 1949 season and was merged with the

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to form the Brooklyn-New York Yankees.

Team history

The Brooklyn Dodgers of the new AAFC held their first training camp in the summer of 1946 out west in central

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in the small town of Bend. Led by head coach

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, some 62 members of the team assembled in Bend in the middle of July of that year. The team played two preseason games in the

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, the first in Portland against the

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on August 18, and the following Saturday night in

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against the

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. The star of the Dodgers was passing halfback

Glenn Dobbs Glenn Dobbs Jr. (July 12, 1920 – November 12, 2002) was a professional American football player in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). A skilled running back, quarterback, and punter, Dobbs was named the AAFC's MVP in 1946. After sitti ...

, an

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n at the University of Tulsa.

Season records

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References

External links

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Brooklyn Dodgers statistics
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