The statistics of the All-America football conference, a professional football league which existed from 1946 to 1949 until some of its teams were folded in the NFL, will count the official NFL records.
The owners of the league voted today to approve a proposal that would make AAFC statistics a official part of the history of the NFLAccording to nfl.com.
The AAFC is now joining the American Football League as a rival leagues that have been fully adopted as part of the history of the NFL. AFL and NFL merged for the 1970 seasons and all AFL 1960-69 statistics are considered official NFL statistics.
The Cleveland Browns won the AAFC championship during the four years of the league before joining the NFL in 1950 and winning another championship that year. The 49ers of San Francisco also played in the AAFC from 1946 to 1949 before joining the NFL in 1950. A team called The Baltimore Colts also went from AAFC to NFL, although this team folded after the 1950 season and the second Baltimore colts franchise, which began to play in 1953 and is now the same name.
Browns’ longtime head coach, Paul Brown will win 47 additional victories in the regular season and nine additional victories in the playoff series on his coach record, which will return him to seventh place in the history of the NFL with 222 victories in total.
The back of the Browns Marion Motley will now be considered the leader of all time of the NFL in yards by race for a ball carrier. The combined total of the AAFC and the NFL of Motley was 828 races for 4,720 yards, an average of 5.7 yards per race.
Several other Hall of Famers will now have AAFC statistics added to their inheritances, including the quarter-rear of Browns Otto Graham, the 49ers that run Joe Perry, and the Grand Royer “Crazylegs” Hirsch, who played three years for the AAFC chicago rockets before joining Rams Los Angeles in NFL.
For historians of professional football, the decision to open the book of records at the AAFC is important and makes official records of the League a more complete image of the history of sport.
