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The Browns finished the 1948 season with a perfect record and defeated the Buffalo Bills to win the AAFC championship for the third time in a row. [1] Head coach Paul Brown made several adjustments before the 1949 season, bringing in halfback Les Horvath, a former Los Angeles Rams player from Ohio State who had won the Heisman Trophy in 1944. [2]
From 1946 to 1948, the AAFC determined its champion in a title game between the winners of its two divisions. In 1948, a special playoff game was needed to break a first-place tie in one of the divisions. In 1949, the league contracted to a single division, so it determined its champion by a four-team single-elimination tournament.
On December 9, 1949, two days before the AAFC title game, the two leagues made peace. Three AAFC teams were admitted to the NFL: the Browns, 49ers, and Colts. The Dons merged with the Rams, [33] while the Bills, Yankees, and Hornets folded. The enlarged league was renamed the National–American Football League.
Postseason results Awards Head coach Refs; Finish W L T Pct; 1946: 1946: AAFC ~ Western ^ 1st ^ 12 2 0 .857 Won AAFC championship (1) 14–9 Paul Brown [5] 1947: 1947: AAFC ~ Western ^ 1st ^ 12 1 1 .893 Won AAFC championship (2) (at Yankees) 14–3 [6] 1948: 1948: AAFC ~ Western ^ 1st ^ 14 0 0 1.000 Won AAFC championship (3) 49–7 [7] 1949: ...
The 1949 Buffalo Bills season was their fourth and final season in the All-America Football Conference. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 7-7, winning only five games. [1] They qualified for the playoffs, but lost to the Cleveland Browns who went on to beat the San Francisco 49ers for the final AAFC Championship.
From 1946 to 1948 the champions of each division met in the AAFC championship game. In 1949, there was only one seven-team division, so the championship game was the final round of a four team tournament. 1946 December 22 Cleveland Browns 14–9 New York Yankees, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 41,181
W L T PCT PF PA STK; Cleveland Browns: 9 1 2 .900 339 171 W2 San Francisco 49ers: 9 3 0 .750 416 227 W3 New York Yankees: 8 4 0 .667 196 206 L1 Buffalo Bills
The same two teams appeared in the championship game the following year, with the Browns winning again 14–3. Before the 1949 season, the financially-faltering Brooklyn Dodgers football team was 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 ...