• Source: New York Yankees (AAFC)

The New York Yankees were a professional American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) from 1946 to 1949. The team played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. They were owned by Dan Topping, who transferred the team from the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers, retaining many of the same players. The team's coach was Ray Flaherty, who had coached the Washington Redskins 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 Cleveland Browns 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 Brooklyn Dodgers 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 New York Giants and New York Bulldogs, who played as the New York Yanks starting in 1950.




Players of note


Brad Ecklund
Nate Johnson
Jack Russell
Spec Sanders
Otto Schnellbacher
Frank Sinkwich
Bob Sweiger
Jordan Jenkins
George Brown




Pro Football Hall of Famers






Season records






References

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• New York Yankees (AAFC)
• 1946 New York Yankees (AAFC) season
• 1949 New York Yankees (AAFC) season
• 1948 New York Yankees (AAFC) season
• 1947 New York Yankees (AAFC) season
• Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)
• New York Yankees (disambiguation)
• Ray Flaherty
• Tom Landry
• All-America Football Conference