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This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game in the National Football League (NFL) or All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the San Francisco 49ers. This list is accurate through the end of the 2023 NFL season.
Guadalupe Joseph Arenas (December 12, 1925 – June 30, 2020), [1] also known as "Lupe Joe" Arenas [2] and "Little Joe" Arenas, [3] was an American football player. He was a halfback and defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers from 1951 to 1957. He was best known as a kickoff and punt returner.
A founding member of the 49ers, Albert was also the highest-paid member of the team, with a contract paying him $10,000 for the 1946 season. [ 6 ] Albert, a 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m), 166-pound, left-handed passer, was credited for inventing the bootleg play , in which the quarterback fakes a handoff then runs wide with the ball hidden on his hip ...
He was then recruited by UCLA, but declined, and enlisted in the Navy during World War II. [2] He played football in the military for Naval Air Station Alameda . [ 3 ] In an East vs. West college all-star game in January 1948, Perry scored on a four-yard run in the first quarter for the West, which also featured Bobby Layne of Texas and Jake ...
Casanega joined the original San Francisco 49ers off the All-America Football Conference in 1946. He played in all 14 games (starting 5) as a running back, with 29 rushes for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, plus 5 receptions for 102 yards and 1 touchdown. He also returned 18 punts for a 13.8-yard average and three kicks for a 20.3 average.
At the Masonic Home, Brown became friends with Tex Coulter. [3] Brown was a standout football player for the Mighty Mites, leading them to the state semi-finals his senior year. He then enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a Paramarine during the Second World War, before playing football at Tulsa and eventually professionally. [4]
The 49ers players learned of his death at halftime when Coach Frankie Albert was handed a note with two words: "Tony's gone." With tears running down their faces, and motivated to win for their departed owner, the 49ers scored 14 unanswered points to win the game, 21–17. Dicky Moegle's late-game interception in the endzone sealed the victory.
Wilson was the fourth player to lead the NFL in receptions in three different seasons. Only five other players have done so since Wilson Y. A. Tittle, a quarterback whose time with the 49ers matched up with Wilson's, called him "one of the fiercest competitors I ever played with" and described him as "our No. 1 receiver."