Dallas Texans (NFL)

The Dallas Texans played in the National Football League for one season, 1952, with a record of 1–11. Owner Giles Miller had bought the remnants of Ted Collins' Boston Yanks/New York Bulldogs/New York Yanks franchise, which had played from 1944?48 in Boston, and 1949-51 in New York, from the league.

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National Football League - 1952 - Boston Yanks - New York Bulldogs

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The Texans were the last NFL member team ever to fold, sold by the team's owners back to the league midway through the season. The team wound up playing one of their final three "home" games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, where the franchise's only win occurred ? a 27-23 win over the Chicago Bears of George Halas, who was so confident that his team would win, he started his entire second string team ? in front of an estimated 3,000 fans on Thanksgiving Day which avoided what would have been the first winless regular season since 1944 (both the Brooklyn Tigers and Card-Pitt, the latter being the merged Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers finished 0-10-0), a feat that would later be accomplished (?) by the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who did it in fourteen games. Head coach Jim Phelan suggested because of the small turnout ? where a high school game earlier outdrew the NFL contest ? that instead of being introduced on the field, they should "go into the stands and shake hands with each fan."

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Rubber Bowl - Akron, Ohio - Chicago Bears - George Halas - Thanksgiving Day - 1976 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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The league dissolved the franchise following the season, and for the 1953 season, what remained of the Texans organization was awarded to the city of Baltimore to form a new Baltimore Colts team to replace the one which had folded after the 1950 season.

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1953 - Baltimore - Baltimore Colts - 1950

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Another Dallas Texans team would play in the American Football League in the early 1960s before becoming the Kansas City Chiefs. A third team with the Dallas Texans name played in the Arena Football League from 1990 to 1993.

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American Football League - 1960 - Kansas City Chiefs - Dallas Texans - Arena Football League

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