Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC)

The team is unrelated to the Brooklyn Dodgers that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943.

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.

[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.

The star of the Dodgers was passing halfback Glenn Dobbs, an All-American at the University of Tulsa.