American Football League (1946-1950)
In the autumn of 1945, after the surrender of Japan in World War II, the American Association returned to business, unlike the third American Football League. John Rosentover remained league president, the five teams that finished the 1941 AA season (Jersey City, Long Island, Newark, Paterson, and Wilmington) returned to the fold, but the two franchises that were supposed to join the league in 1942 (Hartford and Springfield) did not survive the league's layover.
Neither did the third American Football League, which had originally announced intentions of resuming play after the war. So the American Association adopted a new name upon resumption of operations: American Football League. The league renewed its working relationship with the National Football League, with which a compact with the Dixie League and the Pacific Coast Professional Football League prohibited the participation of players signed to “outlaw leagues” (originally directed toward the third AFL, but, starting 1946, applied to the newly-formed All-America Football Conference). On March 24, 1946, the formalization of the compact, the Association of Professional Football Leagues was announced by PCPFL president (and Association chairman) J. Rufus Klawans.
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