Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL)

Brooklyn Dodgers

Founded	1930
Suspended	1945
Folded	Players assigned to Boston Yanks
Based in	Brooklyn, New York, United States
League	National Football League
Division	Eastern Division
Team history	Brooklyn Dodgers (1930–1943) Brooklyn Tigers (1944) Yanks (1945)
Team colors	Blue, silver, white (1930–1937)     Red, blue, silver, white (1937–1943)      Burnt orange, black, white (1944)
Head coaches	Jack Depler (1930–1931) Benny Friedman (1932) Cap McEwan (1933–1934) Paul Schissler (1935–1936) Potsy Clark (1937–1939) Jock Sutherland (1940–1941) Mike Getto (1942) Pete Cawthon (1943–1944) Ed Kubale (1944) Frank Bridges (1944)
General managers	Tom Gallery (1944)
Owner(s)	Bill Dwyer & Jack Depler (1930–1933) Chris Cagle & John Simms "Shipwreck" Kelly (1934) John Simms "Shipwreck" Kelly & Dan Topping (1934–1945)
Home field(s)	Ebbets Field (1930–1944) Yankee Stadium (1945)

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field of the baseball National League's team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1945, because of financial difficulties and the increasing scarcity of major league–level players because of the war-time defense requirements at the height of World War II, the team was merged with the Boston Yanks and were known as the Yanks for that season.

This old NFL franchise was not related to the earlier (second incarnation) American Football League II with a franchise that played as the Brooklyn Tigers for the first half of the 1936 season before moving to Rochester, New York and playing as the Rochester Tigers. Another NFL team that played in the Brooklyn borough was the Brooklyn Lions (which became the Brooklyn Horsemen after merging with a team from an earlier first incarnation AFL of the same name) in 1926.

In 1946, co-owner and partner Dan Topping (1912–1974) pulled the Tigers team out of the old NFL and placed it in the newly established rival professional league – the All-America Football Conference, which shortly lasted until 1949, until three teams from the AAFC merged with and entered a reorganized NFL in 1950.