Team history
The Brooklyn Dodgers of the new AAFC held their first training camp in the summer of 1946 out west in central Oregon in the small town of Bend. [3] Led by head coach Mal Stevens, some 62 members of the team assembled in Bend in the middle of July of that year. [4] [5] [6] The team played two preseason games in the Pacific Northwest, the first in Portland against the Chicago Rockets at Multnomah Stadium on August 18, [7] [8] [9] [10] and the following Saturday night in Spokane against the New York Yankees at Gonzaga Stadium. [5] [11] [12] On August 30, 1946 they played their one and only official preseason game at the Akron Rubber Bowl against the Cleveland Browns; they lost 20-35. That season the Dodgers were second in the Eastern division with a record of 3-10-1. After 7 games, head coach Mal Stevens was replaced with Cliff Battles. In 1947, they also went 3-10-1 but finished third in the Eastern Division. In 1948, their last season before merging with the New York Yankees, Carl Voyles was their coach. The team went 2-10 and finished fourth in the Eastern Division of the AAFC.
The star of the Dodgers was passing halfback Glenn Dobbs, an All-American at the University of Tulsa. [5]
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