Baltimore Colts

All-American Football Conference 1947-1949

1st NFL Season - 1950

This information on this page was compiled by Doug Phillips, member of Ravens Nest No. 1, from a wide variety of sources.

 

The Colts wore silver and green in their three years in the AAFC and their first year after the merger with the NFL in 1950.

 

 

 

Unused ticket to Baltimore Stadium, October 5, 1948.  Tuesday night at 8:30???

 

 

Ticket stub to Baltimore Stadium, October 19, 1947.  

 

 

 

 

1948 Baltimore Colts team photo 

Top Row: Jack Simmons, Y.A. Title, Pete Berezney, Ed Grain, Al Klug, John Mellus, John Sylvester, Dub Garrett, Mickey Mayne. Second Row: Bus Mertes, Bob Nowaskey, Lee Artoe, Hub Bechtol, Ollie Poole, Jim Spruill, George Groves, Spiro Dellebra, Mule Corley. Third Row: Lu Gambino, Tuffy McCormick, Rex Grossman, Ernie Blandin, Dick Barwegen, Joe Smith, Charley O'Rourke, Racehorse Davis. Bottom Row: Billy Hilenbrand, Stormy Pfohl, John North, Ralph Stewart, Johnny Vardian, Jake Leicht, Aubrey Fowler, and Wendell Williams.

 

 

1948 AAFC Media Guide 1949 AAFC Media Guide
1950 AAFC Media Guide

 

 

1950 Baltimore Colts Comic Book featuring Y.A. Title

 

 

Municipal Stadium prior to 1950.  Also known as Baltimore Stadium, Babe Ruth Stadium, Venable Stadium, and Metropolitan Stadium.

1946
Team G Total Average
Cleveland Browns 7 399,962 57,137
New York Yankees 7 194,600 27,800
Chicago Rockets 7 193,777 27,682
San Francisco 49ers 7 185,561 26,509
Los Angeles Dons 7 144,315 20,616
Buffalo Bisons 7 116,954 16,708
Brooklyn Dodgers 7 97,671 13,953
Miami Seahawks 7 49,061 7,009
AAFC TOTAL 56 1,381,901 24,677

 

1947
Team G Total Average
Cleveland Browns 7 392,760 56,109
Los Angeles Dons 7 304,170 43,453
New York Yankees 7 264,412 37,773
San Francisco 49ers 7 242,504 34,643
Buffalo Bisons 7 217,699 31,100
Baltimore Colts 7 199,661 28,523
Chicago Rockets 7 130,657 18,665
Brooklyn Dodgers 7 77,101 11,014
AAFC TOTAL 56 1,828,964 32,660

 

1948
Team G Total Average
Cleveland Browns 7 318,619 45,517
San Francisco 49ers 7 285,968 40,853
Los Angeles Dons 7 280,348 40,050
Baltimore Colts 7 206,139 29,448
Buffalo Bisons 7 176,197 25,171
New York Yankees 7 159,554 22,793
Chicago Rockets 7 112,056 16,008
Brooklyn Dodgers 7 72,498 10,357
AAFC TOTAL 56 1,611,379 28,775

 

1949
Team G Total Average
San Francisco 49ers 6 229,390 38,232
Cleveland Browns 6 189,604 31,601
Buffalo Bisons 6 159,842 26,640
Baltimore Colts 6 152,119 25,353
New York Yankees 6 139,876 23,313
Los Angeles Dons 6 132,382 22,064
Chicago Hornets 6 107,222 17,870
AAFC TOTAL 42 1,110,435 26,439