I'm 52 years old, and I just found out right now that there was a New York Yanks NFL team. Amazing thing you'll find on KZread thanks for sharing

I was kid back then growing up in Chicago and along with my brother we were lucky enough to attend all the Bears home games in Wrigley until 1963 ! Great days !!

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

Your family must have had season tickets. It was tough getting into Wrigley back then - high demand and less than 40,000 seats.

@CommonScents952

8 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. You are so lucky to have grown up in a time when almost all Americans were patriotic and loved their country. No kneeling during the national anthem. I was born in 69, so I remember much better times. My children aren’t able to make a living in these times, and it makes me sad to know that they don’t have any idea of “The good old days”.

Otto Graham once lived near me when I was a child. One weekend he had a yard sale, and my father went over to his house and came back with two signed NFL footballs, one for me, one for my brother. Next to our house was an open field where all the kids in the neighborhood would play. One afternoon my father comes home and sees us playing football and he asks whose football we're using and I told him one of the ones you got from that Otto guy.

A quarterback wearing no 60 ... a defensive lineman wearing no. 11 ... classic!

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

The NFL didn't standardize uniform numbers by position until 1973, and did have a grandfather clause to allow players to keep newly prohibited numbers. It's been tweaked a bit over the years - for example, in the 90's, they started allowing receivers to wear numbers in the teens.

@armorybrunotjr.3204

3 жыл бұрын

Otto Graham wore 60 in the first years the Cleveland Browns joined the NFL; by 1954, he switched to 14 as his new uniform number.

@JStarStar00

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellmurray3964 In 1954 they did impose the eligible-receiver numbers rules.

@algee8415

3 жыл бұрын

Otts. Motley (FB) wore 76.

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

that quarterback wearing number 60 took his team to the championship game in all 10 of his professional seasons.

Sammy Baugh and George Blanda in the same game....WOW!

It was the "old" Statue of Liberty play back 70 years ago!!

My uncle, Howard Rau (1912-1996) was a freshman fullback on the 1934 Tulane team that won the SEC and the first Sugar Bowl overTemple, 20-14, coached by Pop Warner. ..he wore #77.

@juggalofred1533

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching that game on tv

@jreyes2822

Жыл бұрын

@@juggalofred1533 same

@itsjustch1ll

Жыл бұрын

no way you two are that old

@jreyes2822

Жыл бұрын

@@itsjustch1ll I’m 87

@itsjustch1ll

Жыл бұрын

And how old were you when you saw the game?

With the folding of the original Baltimore Colts, the NFL reduced in size for the very last time in 1951. By that point, only three of the charter franchises from 1920 were still in the league - the Chicago Cardinals, Dayton Triangles, and Decatur Staleys, only the former team had the same name in 1951 that it did in 1920. The Staleys joined the Cardinals in Chicago in 1921 and changed their name to the Bears, their current name, the following year. The Triangles moved to Brooklyn, where they played as the Dodgers and later Tigers. In 1945, the Tigers merged with the Boston Yanks and assumed the latter's name, splitting home games between both cities in that season, and settling full time in Boston in 1946. The Yanks relocated back to NYC, but not in Brooklyn, in 1949, playing one season as the Bulldogs before reverting to the Yanks name in 1950 for two seasons. The Yanks moved to Dallas and became the Texans for the 1952 season, and failed there too. Undaunted, the NFL decided to give Baltimore another shot, and the Texans set up shop there as the second incarnation of the Colts in 1953. After over 20 years of various relocations and name changes, the team founded in 1913 as the Dayton Triangles found their home for the next 31 seasons. The NFL remained at 12 teams for the rest of the 1950s and even through the 1960 draft. The NFL rebuffed various attempts to secure expansion franchises for the league during the last seven years of the 50s. The NFL's hand was finally forced in 1960 when several of the owners turned down for expansion franchises formed a new league, the American Football League. As originally announced, the AFL was to have an Eastern Division consisting of the Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, New York Titans, and a team in Minneapolis-St. Paul that was never named for reasons I am about to get into. The Western Division would contain the Dallas Texans, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers, and Los Angeles Chargers. The NFL thus reversed its stance on expansion and not only awarded the Dallas Cowboys, the first modern-era NFL expansion team, for 1960, but convinced the MSP ownership group to pull out of the AFL and join as the NFL's next expansion team in 1961, the Minnesota Vikings. Replacing Minnesota in the AFL was the Oakland Raiders, whose placement in the Western Division forced the shuffling of the Oilers to the East. To this day, Houston teams have never been part of a Western Division in either the AFL or NFL, despite being further west than Kansas City, where the Chiefs have always been part of the AFL/AFC West. The AFL and NFL competed bitterly for 6 years. In 1966, both leagues decided to end their bitter competition and merge for the 1970 season. By this point, the Cardinals had moved to St. Louis, Chargers to San Diego, the Texans to Kansas City as the Chiefs, and the Titans changed their name to the Jets. In the four years the leagues peacefully co-existed as separate entities, the NFL added the Atlanta Falcons and the AFL the Miami Dolphins in 1966, bringing pro football to the Southeast for the first time in the modern era, it had long been a college football hotbed. Then in 1967, the NFL added the New Orleans Saints, and the AFL added the Cincinnati Bengals a year later. When the merger completed, the AFL became the AFC and added three pre-existing NFL teams - the Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers. The remaining pre-existing NFL teams became the NFC. The league continued to evolve its membership. In 1976, the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers began play. In 1982, the Raiders moved to Los Angeles, followed later in the decade by the Colts to Indianapolis and Cardinals to Phoenix. In 1995, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars began play, and LA lost both of its teams, the Rams to St. Louis and the Raiders back to Oakland. The Baltimore Ravens were born out of Art Modell's attempt to relocate the Cleveland Browns in 1996, instead the Browns shut down for three years and returned in 1999. By that point, the Oilers relocated to Nashville and became the Tennessee Titans. Houston gained a replacement team, the Texans in 2002, necessitating a move to an alignment of 8 divisions of four teams each. Since that time, the Rams and Chargers both returned to Los Angeles, in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and the Raiders moved to Las Vegas, the first completely new market for the NFL since Nashville.

I love these old footages

Wow I was looking for a 50s football video and this is EXACTLY what I wanted.

@matthewbailey2013

2 жыл бұрын

Black and white football on TV was what I was looking for. Now onto NBA old timers game.

Among the Hall of Famers mentioned in the highlights: Otto Graham, Dante Lavelli, Lou Groza, Tom Landry, Emlen Tunnell, Sammy Baugh, Bill Dudley, George Blanda, Pete Pihos, Steve Van Buren, Jack Butler, Bobby Layne, Doak Walker, Tony Canadeo, Bob Waterfield, Crazylegs Hirsch, Y.A.Tittle, and Joe Perry.

The Statue of Liberty play! That's awesome! Don't see that anymore.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Fiesta Bowl in 2006.. not too many years ago..where BOISE ST. beat OKLAHOMA U. with it in overtime, and then the runningback IAN JOHNSON with the winning TD, ran over after his postgame interview, and immediately proposed to his girlfriend who was the head BSU cheerleader.. They're still married today, and have one child. IAN JOHNSON sells STATE FARM INSURANCE in Boise, IDAHO. He failed to make it in the NFL, although he was on the practice squad of a few teams for four seasons.

This is amazing it still can be watched. Its history

Been watching a lot of these 50's era highlights tonight, and one common appearance: the Ageless Wonder, George Blanda! Even in 1951!

@bemore1134

3 жыл бұрын

So a guy (Blanda) who played into the mid-70s actually competed against Sammy Baugh. That's almost surreal.

@russellmurray3964

2 жыл бұрын

George Blanda, one of the biggest mistakes Papa Bear Halas ever made when he forced him to retire (for the first time) after the 1958 season. Had a HOF QB and he let him walk.

@Corwin1141

Жыл бұрын

​@@russellmurray3964 his mistake benefited the AFL.

@russellmurray3964

Жыл бұрын

@@Corwin1141 No doubt about it. Blanda was one of the players who factored into the AFL becoming a successful pro sports league that could stand on its own.

7:09 what a interception !!! the young Tom Landry!!!! that boy has a future!

@armorybrunotjr.3204

Жыл бұрын

Tom Landry starred as a defensive halfback with the New York Giants from 1950-55.

Love those classic old uniforms watch a NFL game now a days and some teams look like there part of the Ringing Brother Barnum and Baily Circus. HOW BOUT DEM GIANTS!

It's really too bad there aren't more color films from this period. There is a lot more color than you'd think. Some teams were doing it on the cheap and had only 1 colored jersey with no "road" version. Redskins, Bears, Rams, Steelers, 49ers in 1951. The Detroit Lions had to wear a red jersey some games because they looked so similar to the opponent. The Rams had only a lemon yellow jersey with blue letters. The 49ers were red and silver with sometimes a red helmet. So the game in color would have featured strong primary colors of simple design.

the blocking in these old videos are so crazy every guy is getting hitsticked

Pick six by Tom Landry as a DB!

@tomitstube

5 жыл бұрын

landry was a 3 time all pro.

@loganstolberg2743

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah people don’t realize he was also a very good cornerback

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Pick six in the NFL, a few seasons earlier, he shot down German planes in WW2. LANDRY began his career in the AAFC, too with the NEW YORK YANKEES IN 1949 with that team originally the NFL's BROOKLYN DODGERS and AAFC NY YANKEES, merged. Later back in the NFL as the NY BULLDOGS/IN 1950, changed to the NY YANKS[NOT YANKEES], with half of the AAFC NY YANKEES allocation going TO THE BULLDOGS/YANKS, and a half allocation given to the NY GIANTS= incl. LANDRY.

Fifteen years before I was born, but now I can see what my dad was talking about Giants vs. Yanks. Yes, there was actually a New York Yankees football team, but only for two years. Great stuff.

@SuperIliad

3 жыл бұрын

There was also a Brooklyn Dodgers pro football team.

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperIliad also, the Steelers were originally the Pittsburgh Pirates.

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Digby try 46 teams before television became popular, and 49 altogether. a little bit more than a dozen

@TigerWoodsLibido

2 жыл бұрын

The Triangles-Colts played wherever they had to back then. Finally settled back just 117 miles to the west of Dayton where it all began.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

@@TigerWoodsLibido, again, not technically.

Harry Wismer was a former radio broadcaster for the Washington Redskins, but people remember him better for his escapades as owner of the New York Titans (long since the Jets) in the American Football League from 1960-62.

@russellmurray3964

2 жыл бұрын

As an NFL owner, Harry Wismer made a great radio broadcaster.

No QB will ever do what Otto Graham did

Harry Wismer! The original Detroit Lions broadcaster, and the original owner of the New York Jets (then known as the New York Titans).

I didn't know they had weekly highlights this far back. Wow!

That's interesting how they piled up the snow into a wall two feet from the sideline in Green Bay. All sorts of people would have a hissy fit if they did that nowadays.

@cl5619

6 ай бұрын

The broadcaster calls it a “frozen field”. I was excited for a split second to possibly hear him call it the “frozen tundra”

Before 1955, you had to not only touch a ball carrier while he was on the ground, but PIN HIM, too, or he could get up and run. Lets say..If a hit knocked a guy forward two yards but the contact caused him to fall to the ground in between the goallines, even if he was not touched while he was on the ground the runner could get up and run if he was not pinned down on the spot.

Those old scoreboards were simple, but useful, and just cool.

@armorybrunotjr.3204

3 жыл бұрын

The Polo Grounds Longines scoreboard clock was the one the Giants later used when they moved to Yankee Stadium.

remember back in 54-55, I would watch these NFL highlights. I never watched any live games- don't think they had any

@jimhardy7673

5 жыл бұрын

I saw a few live Bear road games on WGN in Chicago.

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

@@jimhardy7673 It was really tough back then to see either Chicago team (Bears or Cardinals) live on TV back then. The old blackout rule mandated that if a team was playing at home, then all NFL broadcasts were blacked out for a 75-mile radius. Since either the Bears or Cards were usually playing a home game on any given Sunday, the NFL was nearly always blacked out in Chicago. The situation didn't get better until the Cards left for St. Louis in 1960.

@anthonydifabio3406

3 жыл бұрын

Ì7 how

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

@@russellmurray3964, yep, and ROZELLE as commish should've immediately changed that because he knew better. He had been the P.R. guy and then later the G.M. of the RAMS, and he saw how televising all of the games, which the RAMS did early on, actually helped create interest, RAISING ATTENDANCE for the RAMS, and pushed fans into WANTING TO GO HAVE A GOOD TIME IN THE LA COLISEUM. By the way, TEXAS E. SCHRAMM as RAMS VEEP, was the guy who hired ROZELLE as the RAMS P.R. DIRECTOR. SCHRAMM moved later to CBS where he was a network exec. in the SPORTS DEPT. He helped put the first WINTER OLYMPICS ON IN 1960. Later that year, he was hired as the first GM of the brand new DALLAS COWBOYS.

Paul Brown was the 1st coach to pursue black players. He started it all with the great RB Marion Motley & all-pro MG Bill Willis in 1946. He was curtailed by the NFL owners when the Browns went in to their league. They imposed race quotas on rosters. I think mainly to limit Paul Brown's domination. They someway made him trade Willie Davis who was the 2nd coming of the 1st great modern pass rusher (Len Ford) to Lombardi & the Packers. There is no way PB would have done that on his own.

@jcbvortex22

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your insightful comment.

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

the race quotas were not to limit the browns' domination, IT WAS PLAIN RACISM. do not make excuses or create alternate realities. i'll say it again because everyone needs to learn that we in the United States need to deal honestly with our racist past if we are ever going to move forward. THE RACE QUOTAS WERE PLAIN RACISM, NOTHING ELSE. also, your assertion "they someway made him trade Willie Davis". provide evidence or your assertion is useless.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

First coach post-1945..and after early 1930's, but there were "native" and black players in the APFA/NFL in the 1920's and early 1930's, one was a player-coach= HALL OF FAMER, FRITZ POLLARD..

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Jim Marshall also was a CLEVELAND BROWN..

@nobodyaskedbut

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertsprouse9282 PB was the 1st to have multiple black players who were regulars which also included the great punter Horace Gillom.

Tom Landry scores a TD! Go Giants!

I wish I could've been alive to watch this

The New York Yanks of course would move to Dallas for the 1952 season. The '52 Dallas Texans were the very first major-league team of any sport for the state of Texas. They finished 1-11, and would move to Baltimore for the following season, becoming the Colts. With the recent death of the great Gino Marchetti, there are only 3 players still living from the '52 Texans.🏈

@josephlalbertijr5105

4 жыл бұрын

T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT who are the 3???

@t4texastomjohnnycat978

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephlalbertijr5105 George Robison Gene Felker Joe Reid

@russellmurray3964

2 жыл бұрын

The only "home", and in fact the only, win the Texans had all season was when they beat the Chicago Bears 27-23 on Thanksgiving Day 1952 at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, OH. The owners (Giles and Connell Miller) had taken such a financial beating that they ran up the white flag with five games left and turned the Texans over to the league. The NFL in turn ran the Texans as a traveling team out of Hershey, PA.

@TigerWoodsLibido

2 жыл бұрын

They descend from the Dayton Triangles and now play just 117 miles to the west of their origin. The NFL has some effective long game.

@loganstolberg2743

2 жыл бұрын

They were also the last NFL team to fold

This was before TV forced one team to wear white. Great forgotten players all over the place. Dub Jones was an outstanding all-around back who's career was cut short by injuries and historically under-appreciated. That great Browns team had more forgotten super players like HOF Len Ford (3 Ints in NFL title games & caught 7 TDP in 1948) the 1st great modern pass rusher, DB Warren Lahr who most certainly should be in the HOF & Horace Gillom who was one of the best punters of all-time. Johnny Lujack was probably the greatest player in Notre Dame history. Steve Van Buren was the 1st pro player to rush for multiple 1000 yd seasons. Joe "The Jet" Perry was a great RB who started his career in the AAFC where the 49ers were the 2nd best team after the Browns. That Rams team had TWO great black RBs in Dan Towler (Wash&Jeff) & Tank Younger (Grambling) who both were over 225 lbs.

1951 season was my first NFL season as I was born that July 72 years ago.

Tom Landry with a pick six. How cool is that?

Dub Jones...Bert Jones' dad! And still in the record books for TDs in 1 game!

@michaeldonner5334

Жыл бұрын

6 ... tied with Earnie Nevers and Gale Sayers

1951 was the Rams first and only championship season in Los Angeles....

@comeacross9

2 жыл бұрын

Until 2/13/2022

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

During their first go-round there..yep.

@bconni2

2 жыл бұрын

@@comeacross9 yup. and i hope we get more

This is beautiful thank you for showing this classic everything

The 1950s Cleveland Browns were the bomb. Now that's a dynasty.

@JStarStar00

3 жыл бұрын

The Browns and the Lions were the powerhouses of the 50s.

Looks as if shoveling snow out of the end zones wasn't a Comiskey Park priority that day.

@tomitstube

5 жыл бұрын

noticed that too, lol, guess they thought no-one would get in the end zone. they did the same thing at forbes field in pittsburgh 18:15. looks like the cleaned off the boarders but not the end zone.

@25:25 Elrod "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, "Slinging"SammyBaugh, Bob Eaterfield, MarionMotley, remember reading a book about football stars and these guys were in the book, along with Otto Graham, then lateon seeing Otto graham on tv, I said damn he's old and still playing. So it was the mid 60s, Sonny jurgenson, Johnny U, Bart Starr.

Both teams wearing dark jerseys AND Tom Landry intercepts and runs back for a TD. Classic!

@TDH24Live

Жыл бұрын

I hope the live spectators could tell the difference between the teams

My name sake the Cardinals QB Jim Hardy is still alive ! God Bless you Mr. Hardy.

@markg2861

4 жыл бұрын

J. R. Hardy he just died :(

@josephbrabander9124

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't he play for USC in college?

This was only 30 years before I was born, it would be like someone born today watching games from 1989

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

i dont think a one year old has the motor capacity to understand and appreciate watchign a football game

@RepentJC

Жыл бұрын

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@Focusyn

Жыл бұрын

@@RepentJC I’m very interested in subscribing to your newsletter.

This was great. I didn't there was a show like this prior to NFL Films.

@classicsportspictures9880

5 жыл бұрын

Prior to NFL Films - the predominate producer of National Football League highlight films was Tel Ra Productions based out of Philadelphia.

@fredkruse9444

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@armorybrunotjr.3204

Жыл бұрын

Tel Ra films featured people such as Harry Wismer and Jim Leaming as narrators.

"Cold balls hard to handle." That's what I've always heard.

The Steelers were the only NFL team at that time still using the single wing formation. That was junked the following season in favor of the T-formation.

@bustercherry9643

4 жыл бұрын

The New York Yanks used the single-wing at times with George Taliaferro playing TB as is seen in this video.

@loganstolberg2743

2 жыл бұрын

Weren’t the Steelers garbage in the ‘50’s?

@armorybrunotjr.3204

Жыл бұрын

@@loganstolberg2743 Until Raymond "Buddy" Parker came along as head coach in 1957, the answer is yes. The Steelers had Jim Finks at quarterback, but for the first part of his career he was used as defensive back. Fran Rogel was a terrific running back, but he was a jibe when former coach Walt Kiesling used him to start every play on offense. The fans at Forbes Field would say, "Hi diddle diddle, it's Rogel up the middle". The decade's biggest blunder was the controversial release of rookie quarterback Johnny Unitas in 1955. When the Steelers missed out on drafting Lenny Moore and Jim Brown, the fans singsong was "We coulda had a backfield of Jim Brown, Lenny Moore and Johnny Unitas".

Love listening to Harry.

At 19:43 Pat Harder receives a pass , a long time NFL referee . There are some familiar names on this . Either as coaches , referees , broadcasters, pioneering AFL players, fathers of future football players, HOFers or husband of sexpot Jane Russell .

@7:15 Tom Landry legendary Dallas Cowboys coach with a pick 6 for a TD

For being 72 years ago, it's amazing how much of the game is similar . . . except how slow they arae all moving

The Packers-Lions footage in black and white makes it look like both teams are wearing the same uniforms. Hard to tell them apart.

wow the techniques back then were so different lol. for example pass pro. they don't even kick out, they just stand up and hit each other with their chest without extended their arms lol. and the kicks were really interesting too. straight kick and quick. not soccer style. cool to see a piece of history

4:02. Interesting how a player used to be able to get up and run after being tackled if the player was not in the grasp of the defender.

Football is one of those subjects where newer is better haha. From gear, balls, training, etc.

They even ran different 😂

This is the 2021 Cleveland Browns.

My grandfather remembers watching these as a kid....go Emlen Tunnel!!

The 1951 49ers were about the last team that still had quite a few holdovers from the AAFC days. And the numbers hadn't changed, so Albert is wearing 63. He'd wear 13 the next season, his last, in 1952, as then numbers were standardized depending on position: linemen who had no pass catching legality wearing 50s, 60s, 70s. 80s ends, no 90s until recent decades and the AFL, single digits, teens, 20s, 30s, 40s backs, whether offense or defense, though some DBs wore 80s. QBs mostly single digits and teens, but Layne wore 22, Conerly 42. Some 30s,40s were LBs.

@plntntvzn

10 ай бұрын

@23:39-57, Jet Perry with the football in his hands was who Ahman Green (Packers 2000-'06)) would have been had Ahman Green put a move or two on defenders in the open field. 1951-'54 49ers were better than they were in 1957. 1959 49ers were also better than their 1957 team. I mention this because any 49er films from 1950s reflecting on their team as w hole, always say the closest they came to going all the way was 1957.

@plntntvzn

10 ай бұрын

@23:39-41, 49er Center #23 Tiger Johnson looks as though he should have been named The Feeble Feline. Jet Perry clearly scored on that play in spite of the Feeble Feline. @24:52 & @25:04, #63 Southpaw Frankie was doing play-action fake before Eddie Lebaron was (once an NFL Film on Lebaron said he was the first to use play-action fake but Lebaron's NFL career didn't begin until 1952 the next season). @25:19-21, 49ers call a five-man pass-rush and Waterfield knew it (or sensed it), and two of 49ers rushing on left side of their line were #73 Hardy Brown (changed to #33 later in the season) and #42 legendary Leo Nomellini (we know obviously changed his # to 73 and wore it through 1963). So Waterfield felt as though he needed to throw and @25:22, SS#93 Pro Bowl Jim Cason, their best DB, with the INT. Jim Cason can be seen making another INT in 1951 in a night game at Philadelphia as his 8 INTs for 147 return yardage put him in the 1951 Pro Bowl. It is wrong when others say that 1950s 49ers had zero defense. This 1951 team had a pass-rush and a half-way decent enough Defensive Backfield, but didn't have another LB besides Hardy Brown to give their run-defense true backbone. It was like that for the 49er defense from 1951-'54, as well as in 1959. Back to this game, @23:35-38, RDE#54 Gail Bruce was never going to be a difference maker. @23:02, again RDE#54 Gail Bruce is the failure, as his false first step eliminates himself from that play. @23:15-19, RDE#54 Gail Bruce's drifting away from the play eliminates himself again, giving himself way too much ground to recover. @25:45-49, RDE#54 Gail Bruce proved to not even be worth double-teaming, and Ram#32 Deacon Dan Towler just merely blocked casually while sort of even turning his head and looking the other direction, and Gail Bruce does nothing to take advantage of that. Gail Bruce played from 1948-'51 and was never a solution. I don't blame the 49er defense as a whole for that long TD pass, considering what the Ram offense was at that time. @26:05-07, you see right side of 49er Offensive Line doing what they are suppose to do. Of course they would, RG#73 Hardy Brown and RT#42 Leo Nomellini played for the 49ers as though they both were on a search & destroy mission (Rams eventually even put a bounty on Hardy Brown). @26:05-07, again, RG#73 Hardy Brown and RT#42 Leo Nomellini block well, but that incompetent Feeble Feline #23 Tiger Johnson was right where Nomellini had just thrown down Ram DT#70 Charlie Toogood. So Ram DT#70 Charlie Toogood then ricochets off of 49er Center #23 Feeble Feline Tiger Johnson, and #70 Charlie Toogood is then right there to both cause and recover the fumble. As for 49er Center Feeble Feline Tiger Johnson, he eventually could be seen on youtube video "1967 Season in Review - 1440p/60fps" @16:36-50 as one of 49er assistant coaches. His greatest contribution to 49er franchise was after 1975 NFL season, when Bengals erroneously promoted him to replace Paul Brown (maybe it was Paul Brown's decision and mistake), and that was why Bill Walsh immediately left Cincinnati in disappointment, and well, we know the rest.

Things really weren't all that different in the 1951 NFL, compared with today - like dancers on the field and gaudy ads on the scoreboard. But Bob Costas would have let Harry have it over his description of CHI-WSH.

Cleveland's Dub Jones was the father of future Baltimore Colt QB Bert Jones. Eagle QB Adrian Burke later became an NFL referee. Country comic Jerry Clower once did a routine about trying to sack Burke when he played for Miss State and Burke played for Baylor in college.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Harvey Johnson the GIANTS or NY YANKS KICKER with the then record 120 P.A.T.s in a row, later head coached the BUFFALO BILLS IN THE NFL.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Hoooooweeee, I wanna tell ya.

If the Cleveland offense looks modern and familiar, it should. It is really the embryonic West Coat Offense invented by Paul Brown and further developed when he was with the Bengals - where Bill Walsh was an assistant.

@nobodyaskedbut

10 ай бұрын

It was not the west coast offense. Otto Graham didn't just throw short passes. He was a great deep passer & could & did make all kinds of throws from anywhere on the field. PB developed the west coast offense when he was coaching the Bengals & lost his young strong armed QB Greg Cook to a badly injured shoulder & had to adjust his passing game to match the replacement (V. Carter) who didn't have a strong arm. Then Bill Walsh who was an assistant coach, took that passing game to SF where it became the "west coast offense".

I thought it was the New York Yanks, not the New York Yankees (previously New York Bulldogs, later to be the ill-fated Dallas Texans, the last NFL franchise to go bust - in 1953). And check it out - future Dallas Cowboy's coaching legend Tom Landry on the pick-6.

@classicsportspictures9880

5 жыл бұрын

Russell - You are absolutely right. They were the New York Yanks and I made the change. Thanks for watching and I hope you add Classic Sports Pictures to your subscribe list. More will be posted in January.

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

@@classicsportspictures9880 Thanks for the great videos! These are totally awesome, I love watching vintage NFL pre-1980's. I made a mistake in my post, the Dallas Texans went belly up in 1952, not 1953.

@tomitstube

5 жыл бұрын

actually the story is confusing in that it interconnects two leagues, several franchises, and players, including tom landry who went from the aafc ny yankees to the nfl's ny giants, while the nfl's n.y. bulldogs (formally the boston yanks) played at polo grounds with the giants, the aafc yankees were playing a yankee stadium. from 1949-51 new york had 4 professional football teams including the brooklyn dodgers who came from ohio... the whole thing is explained in this 1995 article by bob carroll. web.archive.org/web/20130617111756/www.profootballresearchers.org/Coffin_Corner/17-05-621.pdf

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

@@tomitstube The official name of the other NY franchise (i.e., other than the New York Giants) in 1951 was the New York Yanks. They were the team that descended from the Boston Yanks and New York Bulldogs, later to become the short-lived, ill-fated Dallas Texans.

@tomitstube

5 жыл бұрын

@@russellmurray3964 yes, i know, but there's more to the story, and reason the "yankees" get thrown about, did you get a chance to read the article i sourced? there are "yankees" on the '51 "yanks".

Every video from the 50’s has that song in it.

I saw some of these players play live; Holy Smokes

So cool. It's the same old game, but looked a lot more like rugby back then.

Having the goal posts on the goal line seems like the most dangerous aspect of the game!

@lastfirst7371

3 жыл бұрын

They're still at the front of the end zone in Canada

@goodmaro

3 жыл бұрын

But you'll notice that their supports were offset significantly on the Redskins' home field, and deeply so on the Packers'.

@steveswangler6373

2 жыл бұрын

@Jonas Beach apparently you have never heard of Hardy Brown, Chuck Bednarik, Gino Marchetti. the goal posts didnt move, the defensive players did, and were actually allowed to hit unlike today.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

@@lastfirst7371, NFL moved back to the endline where the posts were originally, in the autumn of 1973 after BILLY KILMER'S pass to a wide open JERRY SMITH in SUPER BOWL VII in Jan '73 in L.A., AT THE END OF THE GAME, was knocked down by the goalposts. THE SPOILED TOUCHDOWN WITH A PAT WOULD HAVE TIED THE GAME. On the next play, fourth down, KILMER was sacked and the DOLPHINS finished as the only unbeaten team in the NFL's modern history. The posts were moved to the goalline in 1932 after that postseason exhibition unofficial championship tiebreak game between the PORTSMOUTH, OH. SPARTANS(NOW DETROIT) AND THE CHI BEARS was played. That game was originally scheduled for WRIGLEY FIELD, but due to a varitable snow blizzard during the week&weekend, was moved indoors to the arena= CHICAGO STADIUM. The closeness of the back walls and stands in a hockey arena forced the NFL to move the crossbar goalposts to the goalline, preventing footballs bouncing off backwalls from coming back and nailing players and fans. The configuration also created hashmarks, and a controversy late in that game forced another rule change: Forward passes from then on, could be thrown by the passer from less than 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage. The CHI BEARS won that game 9-0..TWO SEASONS LATER, PORTSMOUTH MOVED TO DETROIT and became the LIONS.

Tom Landry number 49 for the Giants wow! Pick 6. Put him on the Cowboys secondary 😭😭😭

3:38 that block at the top of the screen is the best block I've ever seen

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Fundamentals were much stronger then..

Wow, there was a lot of snow on the field in Cleveland Municipal for the first week in November.

@lordmikethegreat

5 жыл бұрын

Normal Cleveland weather, then!!

@russellmurray3964

5 жыл бұрын

Good thing they didn't play in April - I lived in Cleveland for a number of years and in many of those years, April was the snowiest month (the Cleveland Indians would get a lot of ppd during that time).

@scrapplepig

4 жыл бұрын

There is global warming and we will all be dead in 12-13 years. Our only chance is to become mole people.

Adrian Burke was the official on the field for Franco's Immaculate Reception. I believe it happened right in front of him.

Wow!!!! No "Illegal block in the back" penalties!!!! Great highlights! But in some of these games both teams wore dark jerseys. I guess when TV came around one team had to wear light colored shirts. It WAS black and white TV!

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Again, tacklers had to completely pin down on the ground, ball carriers. That changed in 1955.

Fantastic! Where did you find this?

@classicsportspictures9880

5 жыл бұрын

This was a DVD I bought. I do collect 16mm vintage sports films and much of what is on my channel has been transferred from those films.

Snow in Chicago on November 4. WOW. No snow in Buffalo in Jan. 2021.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Snowouts in Cleveland in April of the 1970's.. So what..weather runs in cycles. Sunspots, earth's core's degradation underground, jetstreams shifting cyclically, etc. Polar icecaps melt, and come back, wax and wane every year. With more pollution than the 1930's, the 1950's were a cooler temp decade than the dust bowl 1930's. Then, there are EL NINO and La NINA, affected by volcanic activity under the sea. You myopic climate change hoaxers kill me. If you want to find out what a scam "climate change" is, read DR. MARK IMISIDES mag. piece in the AUTUMN ISSUE OF 2018'S SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPE mag..he uses math formulas to disprove it as a current thing, and talks about JOULES and energy. Read it and educate yourself.

1950s NFL was NFL Blitz.

Wish players still played both ways. More interesting

I was hoping to see a rare Steelers victory from this (most) eras but alas.. Great to see old time Steeler vids though....

Number 86 a beast

George Blanda with Chicago? 1951? Super Bowl QB in 197? WTF? How old was he?

@kenpurdy1653

3 жыл бұрын

Born in 1926.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, BLANDA never played qb in the SUPER BOWL. He had retired in 1975, a season before the RAIDERS went to the SB in 1977, following the '76 season. He was only the place kicker, and backup QB along with COTTON DAVIDSON for the RAIDERS in 1968's SB II, backing up DARYLE LAMONICA the OAKLAND QB.. DAVIDSON who began his pro career in 1954 with BALTIMORE, an original new COLTS qb as a first round draftpick, retired after the following 1968-69 season for OAKLAND.

@bemore1134

4 ай бұрын

@@robertsprouse9282 Nope. Don't think you'll find Cotton Davidson anywhere on a SB II roster for Oakland. He did play in, I believe, one regular season game the next season. Blanda technically didn't retire in '75. He was beaten out by Fred Steinfort in 1976 training camp & hung it up. It's accurate that '75 was his last season.

@robertsprouse9282

4 ай бұрын

@@bemore1134 , if my memory is not playing tricks on me, BLANDA was cut in either ‘73, 74, or ‘75, but was re-signed at the very end, or toward the very end, of training camp, and if it was ‘75, within days he retired. If it was ‘74, he stuck with the team one more season. If it was ‘73, he played two more seasons. As far as FRANCIS “COTTON”DAVIDSON, I stand or sit corrected, I just assumed that because he was shown on WIKI to have played for the RAIDERS from ‘62-68, that he had to have been on the SUPE 2 ROSTER. As you say, he was not on the SUPER BOWL squad, in fact, according to PRO FOOTBALL REFERENCE, twas never on the ‘67 team at all. He did according to PRO FTBALL. REFER., as you said, appear in one game in the Raiders non-SUPE season of ‘68, and later that season, or immediately after, was done. BLANDA was beaten out by STEINFORT, true. But, when a formerly active player is fully cut, and chooses not to try to hookup with another org., or play for another team during the regular season, or is not during any season, put on the active roster, and follows that up in the same manner until their death, they are officially RETIRED from PRO FOOTBALL, lol. What else would you call it for a guy who played over 25 seasons? Now, was it voluntarily done in ‘75?..No, retirement relatively speaking, rarely is not forced. Thanx for the correction on C. DAVIDSON. I should know by now not to trust WIKI on sports. I have been burned before. My hard and soft backed books= PRO FOOTBALL ENCYCLOPEDIAS, will be checked more thoroughly from now on. Thanks, again.

11 yard field goal! Remember those?

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Nine yards was the shortest..

5:00 That's Marion Motley up the middle, not Dub Jones.

Fun fact: play the video at 1.25x speed and their movements won’t look slow

All these decades and not much has changed

Dub Jones son , Bert was 2 months old when this game was played.

Snow on Nov. 4th!

Me, a Packer fan, watching the Chicago Cardinals get owned: Fuck yeah! Fuck Chicago! Lmao

76 is Doug Jones...but Marion Motley will not be denied that key rb number

2109 brutal offensive offside

@goodmaro

3 жыл бұрын

And it was penalized. But they still felt like including that play in the highlights.

1:18 Mighty Cleveland Browns, THATS SOMETHING YOULL NEVER HEAR NOW

@robertewalt7789

3 жыл бұрын

My father was a big Browns fan in the 1950’s. His HS football coach in the 1930’s coached for the Browns in the 1950’s.

@FatElk

3 жыл бұрын

The Browns are good now.

@josephbrabander9124

2 жыл бұрын

Best kicker in the league was Lou "the Toe" Groza. an offensive tackle. Incredible.

Fooseball? You be playin' the foosball with Otto Graham:?

Norm Van Brocklin set the NFL record by throwing for 554 yards in one game against the 1951 NY Yanks.

Interesting (maybe only to me): 1) You aren't officially down/tackled until you're out of bounds or, if still in the field of play, when the officials say forward progress is stopped. So, you can get hit, knocked down, and get up and run some more. So you see people piling on when you're "tackled" so you can't run anymore.; 2) The numbers used don't necessarily tell your position like today's game. So how did they keep up with who was an eligible receiver?; 3) Chicago Cardinals. New York Yankees Football Team. 'Nuff said. 4) The early Cleveland Browns were a dominant team. Thanks for posting!!!

@goodmaro

3 жыл бұрын

Shirt number had nothing to do with whether you were an eligible receiver then, it was just where you were lined up at the snap. Didn't matter if you ordinarily played an interior line position, if you were on the end of the line or in the backfield, you were eligible. But if your hands were under center, you weren't in the backfield, so the QB wasn't an eligible receiver of forward passes.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you literally had to pin them down, until 1955.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

@@goodmaro, unless he lined up in a shotgun..

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

Numbers helped officials keep track of future fined players if needed, or ejected ones, stats and records, and penalties for illegal touching based on where the player lined up at the snap. Finally, it helped the on-field officials track illegal subbing because up until the early '50's, only, I believe, only one player could be subbed in each quarter.

@goodmaro

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertsprouse9282 By "QB", I meant the position, not what the roster said.

Wow, they used that semi-slow-motion filming technique even way back then. I thought that was something NFL Films invented in the 70's.

@robertsprouse9282

2 жыл бұрын

No, not invented..refined..

I think the behind the back no look handoff could still work in today’s NFL

@jamesschmidt5488

2 жыл бұрын

Statue of liberty play

@aarondigby5054

6 ай бұрын

Statue of Liberty play, delayed draw play, long draw play, it'll work today.

Could you imagine football players in the 50’s watching the game today? TAUNTING?!?!? ROUGHING THR PASSER?!?!?

There would be a lot of penalties called if this was 2021.

Back then, gas was a nickel and beer was free.

If you are young and watching, you probably noticed when the player with ball runs, he looks slow and runs funny like a horse, it's because he is high stepping, they don't teach high stepping anymore. It makes it harder to grab at the legs if you high step. Today they favor speed over high stepping.

@789french5

3 жыл бұрын

high stepping is definitely still used to avoid tackles.. the transition between sprinting and high-stepping is just 100x faster.

Chicago’s Johnny Lujack is oldest living Heisman Winner (1947).

2:33…. Otto Graham sneaks in for a TD, play is well over, two Cardinals rush over and assault him.