Everything about Dallas Texans Nfl totally explained
The
Dallas Texans played in the
National Football League for one season, 1952, with a record of 1–11. A group led by Texas millionaire Giles Miller bought the remnants of Ted Collins's
Boston Yanks/New York Bulldogs/Yanks franchise, which had played from 1944 to 1948 in Boston, and from 1949 to 1951 in New York, from the league. Home games were scheduled to be played at the
Cotton Bowl.
Miller thought that Texas, with its longstanding support of college football, would be a natural fit for the NFL. However, they proved to be one of the worst teams in NFL history. The first game, against the
New York Giants, set the tone for the season. While the Texans managed to get the first
touchdown, they missed the
extra point. They never found the
end zone again and lost 24-6.
Only 17,499 fans showed up at the Cotton Bowl (capacity 75,000) for that game, and attendance continued to dwindle as the losses piled up. Unable to meet payroll, Miller returned the team to the league with five games to go in the season. The NFL moved the franchise's operations to
Hershey, Pennsylvania (though it kept the "Dallas Texans" name). It also made the team a
traveling team as the Texans' last three home games were moved elsewhere.
The team wound up playing one of its final two "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. The victory helped the otherwise failing franchise avoid what would have been the first winless regular season since 1944. Both the
Brooklyn Tigers and
Card-Pitt — the latter being the merged (for that year)
Chicago Cardinals and
Pittsburgh Steelers — finished 0-10-0 in 1944, an unenviable feat that would later be surpassed by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a team that lost all of its fourteen regular season games in
1976. At the Bears vs. Texans game in 1952, head coach
Jim Phelan suggested because of the small turnout — where a high school game earlier outdrew the NFL contest (a measure of the NFL's low status on the sports scene at the time)— that instead of being introduced on the field, they should "go into the stands and shake hands with each fan."
George Taliaferro, the team's leading rusher was selected to the
Pro Bowl at the end of the season.
Following the season, the NFL awarded the remains of the Texans operation to a
Baltimore-based group headed by
Carroll Rosenbloom, who used it to start the
Baltimore Colts. However, the Colts (now based in
Indianapolis) don't consider themselves a continuation of the Yanks/Bulldogs/Yankees/Texans franchise. As a result, the Texans were the last NFL team to permanently cease operations and not be considered in the lineage of a current team. The Texans are also the last team in any of the United States's "major" sports leagues (the
National Hockey League, the
National Basketball Association and the
National Football League) to fold.
In
1960, the league made a second venture into Dallas and established what would become a more successful team, the
Dallas Cowboys. Also in that year, the
American Football League began with its own Dallas Texans; that team moved after winning the
1962 AFL Championship and became the
Kansas City Chiefs. The "Texans" name has since been revived by the NFL for the current
Houston Texans, which started play in 2002.
Notable players
Weldon Humble
George Taliaferro
Frank Tripucka
Buddy Young
Fritz Von Erich (real name: Jack Barton Adkisson)
First round draft selection
1952 Les Richter Guard California
Season-by-season
| Year |
W |
L |
T |
Finish |
Coach |
| 1952 |
1 |
11 |
0 |
6th National |
Jim Phelan |
1952 Dallas Texans
Date Score W/L Opponent
9/28/52 6-24 L New York Giants
10/05/52 14-37 L San Francisco
10/12/52 20-38 L at Chicago
10/18/52 14-24 L Green Bay
10/26/52 21-48 L at San Francisco
11/02/52 20-42 L at Los Angeles
11/09/52 6-27 L Los Angeles
11/16/52 13-43 L at Detroit
11/23/52 14-42 L at Green Bay
11/27/52 27-23 W Chicago
12/07/52 21-38 L Philadelphia
12/14/52 6-41 L Detroit
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