1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Buffalo Bills
Graham ended the game with 27 completions in 40 attempts for 330 yards, most of them during the fourth quarter. The tie ended a winning streak that extended through the 1948 season, when the Browns won all of their games. The team, however, preserved its streak of 25 games without a loss.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Colts
The Browns won their second game of the season, a shutout victory over the Baltimore Colts in Cleveland. An interception by Warren Lahr set up Cleveland's first score, a short touchdown run by Edgar Jones. A 70-yard drive on five plays at the beginning of the third quarter was capped by a touchdown throw from Graham to end Dante Lavelli to give the Browns a 14–0 lead. The team's third and final touchdown came later in the third quarter on an 81-yard drive.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Colts
The shutout was the Browns' first since 1947 and extended a long unbeaten streak, but Cleveland suffered a rash of injuries. Groza remained out with a leg injury, while defensive end George Young sustained a serious cheekbone injury when he was trying to tackle Baltimore quarterback Y. A. Tittle at the end of the second quarter. His cheekbone was broken and caved in, and he was taken to a Cleveland hospital for plastic surgery.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Baltimore Colts
Marion Motley suffered a rib injury, Edgar Jones hurt his thigh, and Bill Boedeker had a knee injury, although all three were expected to play in the following week's game against the New York Yankees. Despite that the Colts game was the Browns' home opener, only 21,621 were in attendance, the smallest home crowd in the club's four-year history.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New York Yankees
The Browns faced the New York Yankees in the third game of the regular season on a rainy afternoon in Cleveland. The Yankees scored first on a field goal by Harvey Johnson in the first quarter. Cleveland's offense struggled throughout the game, maintaining possession for just 40 plays and amassing only 125 yards of total offense. Graham completed just four passes. While the offense faltered, however, the Browns' defense stopped the Yankees from scoring numerous times despite allowing a series of long drives.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New York Yankees
The Browns stopped the Yankees from scoring on six drives that went inside the Browns' 20-yard line and three of them that went inside the 10-yard line. New York had 311 total yards, but Cleveland won the game 14–3 on a pair of touchdowns scored by its defense. Les Horvath took a fumble by Buddy Young 84 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, and Tommy James intercepted Yankees quarterback Don Panciera with two seconds left in the game, running the ball in for a 27-yard touchdown. Lou Saban again handled kicking duties, booting through both extra points after the touchdowns as Lou Groza remained sidelined with his leg injury.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Colts
Cleveland beat the Baltimore Colts in the fourth game of the season. Baltimore scored a touchdown and a pair of field goals in the second quarter to get out to a 13–0 halftime lead, but Cleveland launched a comeback in the third and fourth quarters. The Browns' scoring began in the third quarter with a 17-yard touchdown run by Edgar Jones that was set up by a 47-yard return of a Colts missed field goal by Cliff Lewis.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Colts
Cleveland then took a 14–13 lead when a fourth-quarter punt by Charlie O'Rourke slipped off his foot and went sideways, going out of bounds at his own 22-yard line. The Browns took over and Graham scored a touchdown on a six-yard rush. Another touchdown followed about a minute later when linebacker Bill Willis intercepted Colts quarterback Y. A. Tittle and returned it to Baltimore's 2-yard line. Marion Motley ran it in for a touchdown from there.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 4: vs. Baltimore Colts
Baltimore responded with a long touchdown pass from Tittle to Billy Stone, but Cleveland sealed the 28–20 victory with an eight-yard rush by Edgar Jones. Cleveland trailed Baltimore in total yards, with 104 yards of passing and 107 yards of rushing against Baltimore's 181 passing yards and 140 rushing yards. Groza handled kicking for the first time in the season after recovering from his injury.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Los Angeles Dons
The Browns beat the Los Angeles Dons by a 35-point margin in their fifth game. The team's offense had its best game of the year, scoring six touchdowns. Two of them were on trap runs by Marion Motley, who returned from a series of injuries and ended the game with 139 yards of rushing, the second-highest total of his career. Graham passed for 279 yards and two touchdowns, one to Bill Boedeker in the second quarter and the other to Mac Speedie in the fourth quarter. The team's 550 yards of total offense was the second-highest total in club history.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Los Angeles Dons
Lou Saban also scored a touchdown on an interception return in the third quarter. The Dons' lone score came on an 84-yard drive in the fourth quarter engineered by quarterback Glenn Dobbs, who had replaced regular quarterback George Taliaferro after he suffered a knee ligament injury. The game was Cleveland's 29th in a row without a defeat, stretching to the 1947 season. Coach Paul Brown said after the game that the team played "like a baseball pitcher having a good day" in the 42–7 win.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Browns suffered their first loss in 29 games on October 9 against the San Francisco 49ers at Kezar Stadium. The 49ers were one of the strongest teams in the AAFC, and held a 4–1 win–loss record coming into the game. They had scored an average of almost 35 points a game in their first five weeks, led by an offensive attack that featured quarterback Frankie Albert, fullback Joe Perry and end Alyn Beals. The Browns had been effective on defense against San Francisco in their previous four match-ups, allowing a maximum of 14 points.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. San Francisco 49ers
This time, however, the 49ers dominated the Browns, scoring eight touchdowns and 56 total points. San Francisco led from the outset, scoring three unanswered touchdowns in the first quarter. The Browns scored three touchdowns in the first half on two passes from Graham to Speedie and one from Graham to Lavelli, but Albert threw two more of his own before the half to maintain a 35–21 lead. The 49ers scored three more touchdowns in the second half to seal the blowout victory. Perry had an especially strong game, rushing for 156 yards on 16 carries and scoring two touchdowns.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. San Francisco 49ers
Aided by Albert's four passing touchdowns and 249 passing yards, the 49ers had 511 total offensive yards in the game. Paul Brown was disappointed with his team's play and told his players he would cut anyone who did not raise his standard of play. The defeat put San Francisco into first place in the AAFC standings ahead of the Browns.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Los Angeles Dons
Cleveland came back after its first loss in 29 games to set beat the Los Angeles Dons in a blowout as Graham set an AAFC single-game touchdown record. Graham threw six touchdowns, including four to Lavelli and two to Speedie, beating the old record of five. Lavelli's 209 receiving yards were also a league record, and his four scores tied a professional football record set by Don Hutson. The Browns had 423 passing yards in the game. The game started with an 80-yard drive by the Browns that ended with one of Graham's touchdown passes to Lavelli.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Los Angeles Dons
The Dons then tied the game with a touchdown of their own after an 11-play drive. From there, however, the Browns pulled away with six unanswered touchdowns, including three to Lavelli in the second quarter alone. The Dons scored once in the fourth quarter on a rush by Taliaferro, but Cleveland added two more touchdowns in the period to pull out to a 61–14 victory. While the blowout was a welcome reprieve after the loss to San Francisco, the Browns lost halfback Edgar Jones to a broken collarbone.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Los Angeles Dons
Jones, who had been productive early in the season, was forced to sit out the rest of the regular season, returning for the playoffs. A week after the game, when the Browns had a bye, the Yankees beat the 49ers, propelling the Browns back into first place in the AAFC standings. The win gave the Yankees a 5–1 record and a tie for first place with Cleveland ahead of the 49ers, who were 6–2.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Browns avenged their blowout loss to the 49ers with a win in Cleveland on October 30. The matchup drew a crowd of 72,189, the largest attendance for a game in all of pro football in 1949. The 49ers began the scoring in the second quarter with a 48-yard pass from Albert to Len Eshmont. The Browns responded with a touchdown by Lavelli, but the 49ers went ahead again later in the second quarter with a touchdown run by Verl Lillywhite.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers
From there, however, Cleveland scored two touchdowns and Groza kicked a field goal, giving Cleveland a lead it held through the fourth quarter despite two touchdowns by Albert, one of them on a pass to Beals and the other a rush. The Browns won the game 30–28. Groza missed an extra point after a fourth-quarter touchdown because of a high snap, but his field goal proved to be the difference in the close game.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Browns had success in part by exploiting a tendency Brown noticed in their previous game where 49ers defenders would "loop" to one side or the other of the Browns' offensive linemen before making their charge at the quarterback. Brown called a number of quarterback runs, which proved effective against this strategy; Graham was Cleveland's leading rusher, with eight runs for 43 yards. Lavelli suffered a sprained right knee after being tackled by safety Jim Cason, and Graham hurt his shoulder in the game. 49ers coach Buck Shaw used a novel play-calling strategy during the game, relaying offensive sequences to Albert by writing them down on note paper and having substitutes give them to him.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Chicago Hornets
The Browns beat the Chicago Hornets in Cleveland in the ninth game of the season. A field goal attempt in the first quarter by Groza was blocked, but the Browns scored their first points soon thereafter, a four-yard touchdown run by Dub Jones that capped a 49-yard drive. Les Horvath, who had played as a defensive halfback earlier in the season, spent time on offense because of injuries to the Browns' other halfbacks.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Chicago Hornets
He scored two touchdowns, the first a two-yard rush in the second quarter and the second a long pass from Cliff Lewis, who substituted for Graham at the end of the game. Motley also scored a pair of touchdowns in the game, and the Browns won 35–2. The Hornets' only points came in the fourth quarter on a safety after a blocked punt by Gillom. Motley accounted for 118 the Browns' 296 rushing yards. The team also had 246 passing yards. Cleveland's defense played well, holding the Hornets' offense scoreless and allowing them beyond the 50-yard line just three times. Groza was ejected from the game in the third quarter for getting into a scuffle with Hornets tackle Nate Johnson.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills
Cleveland tied the Bills for the second time in the tenth game of the season. Browns linebacker Tony Adamle intercepted a pass by Buffalo quarterback George Ratterman on the Bills' first drive. Cleveland recovered on the Bills' 24-yard line, and engineered a short drive that ended with a quarterback sneak by Graham for a touchdown. Warren Lahr intercepted Ratterman again on the Bills' next drive, but Buffalo evened the score in the second quarter following a series of punts.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills
Buffalo's Tommy Colella punted to Cliff Lewis, who signaled for a fair catch, but the ball slipped through his hands and the Bills recovered. Taking over on Cleveland's 44-yard line, the Bills engineered an 11-play drive that ended with a four-yard touchdown rush by Chet Mutryn, tying the score at 7–7. Cleveland twice came close to a touchdown later in the game but failed to score.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Buffalo Bills
Both teams missed field goals as rainstorms intensified and passing became difficult in the third and fourth quarters; Groza's missed field goal came in the final 15 seconds of the game and would have won it for Cleveland. Despite the tie, the Browns remained in first place in the AAFC standings. The result also strengthened the Bills' chances of getting the fourth and final spot in the playoffs.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. New York Yankees
Cleveland beat the Yankees in its second shutout of the season. The Browns scored all of their points in the first half. The first score was a touchdown from Graham to Bill Boedeker. Dub Jones ran for two one-yard touchdowns, while Motley scored on a short rush in the second quarter. Groza also had a field goal at the end of the first quarter as the Browns built a 31–0 lead that it sustained through the third and fourth quarters. The Yankees threatened to score on their first drive of the third quarter, reaching the Browns' one-yard line.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. New York Yankees
New York, however, failed to score and turned the ball over on downs. The Yankees again reached the one-yard line later in the game, but were stopped by a Cleveland interception. Graham threw for 382 yards in the game. Speedie, meanwhile, set AAFC records with 11 receptions and 228 receiving yards. The yardage figure surpassed the mark set by Lavelli against the Dons and remains a Browns team record. The victory clinched first place for the Browns in the regular season AAFC standings and gave them home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. New York Yankees
The 49ers and Yankees were in a battle for the second and third playoff spots, while the fourth berth was still up for grabs. A crowd of 50,711 came to see the Browns and the Yankees play in Yankee Stadium, the largest home attendance total of the year for New York.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Hornets
The Browns won their final regular-season game against the Hornets at Soldier Field in Chicago. Boedeker scored Cleveland's first touchdown on the third play of the game, a rush from six yards out following a Chicago fumble. Motley scored another touchdown eight minutes later at the end of a 63-yard drive. A fumble by Warren Lahr led to a Hornets touchdown in the second quarter, although kicker Jim McCarthy missed the extra point. Chicago threatened to score again in the fourth quarter after a fumble by Cliff Lewis, reaching the Cleveland three-yard line.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Chicago Hornets
Linebackers Bill Willis and Alex Agase tackled Hornets quarterback Johnny Clement for losses, however, stopping the drive. Cleveland won the game 14–6 as snowy conditions slowed the game. The players helped clear snow from the field in the morning before the game began, but the turf was muddy and slippery. Graham had 88 passing yards, bringing his season total to 2,785. It was the highest mark of his career despite that the season was only 12 games long, two shorter than in previous years. A crowd of only 5,031 people attended the game, largely because of the bad weather. The AAFC's Chicago franchise, however, was also one of its least successful financially, competing with the NFL's Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs
The AAFC instituted a Shaughnessy playoff system for the 1949 season after the Brooklyn Dodgers went out of business, reducing the number of teams in the league to seven. Under the system, the top four teams in the league reached the playoffs; the first-and fourth-place teams played each other for one spot in the championship game, while the second- and third-place teams played for the other championship game berth. Finishing atop the AAFC standings in the regular season, the Browns faced the fourth-place Bills in the semi-final, a team they had tied twice during the regular season.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Semi-final vs. Buffalo Bills
Cleveland began its first postseason game against the Bills with two scoring drives in the first quarter, one ending with a 51-yard touchdown pass from Graham to Lavelli and the other with a 31-yard field goal by Groza. The Bills, however, came back in the second quarter with a pair of touchdown throws by quarterback George Ratterman to take a 14–10 lead at halftime.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Semi-final vs. Buffalo Bills
The first score was set up by an interception of a Graham pass by Bob Livingston on the last play of the first quarter, while the second one came on a long drive at the end of the first half that was extended by a roughing the kicker penalty against the Browns. The Browns regained the lead in the third quarter after Lou Saban intercepted Ratterman and returned the ball to the Bills' two-yard line. Edgar Jones ran it in for a touchdown from there.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Semi-final vs. Buffalo Bills
An 80-yard Bills drive gave Buffalo a 21–17 lead toward the end of the third quarter, but Cleveland again went ahead 24–21 on a three-play touchdown drive capped by a 49-pass from Graham to Dub Jones. After missing a field goal in the fourth quarter, Buffalo looked to at least even the score on a drive five minutes left in the game. The Bills were near midfield when Ratterman threw an interception to Warren Lahr that he returned 52 yards for the game-winning touchdown. Graham had 326 passing yards in the game, while Ratterman had 293.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Semi-final vs. Buffalo Bills
As the Browns beat the Bills, the 49ers beat the Yankees in San Francisco by a score of 17–7. That set up a championship game matchup between Cleveland and San Francisco in Cleveland. In the week before the game, AAFC and NFL owners agreed to terms under which the Browns, 49ers and Colts would play in the NFL starting in the 1950, while the AAFC's other clubs would go out of business.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Semi-final vs. Buffalo Bills
Owners of disbanded teams got minority stakes in NFL clubs, while the 1950 AAFC dispersal draft would allocate AAFC players to active teams in the newly organized league to be called the National American Football League. The owners had floated a similar proposal in 1948, but it had been vetoed by George Preston Marshall, the owner of the NFL's Washington Redskins, and Tim Mara, the owner of the New York Giants. Teams in both leagues were suffering financially, in part because of the competition between them for talent that was driving up player salaries and eating into owners' profits. Paul Brown criticized the deal the owners eventually agreed upon, preferring a unified two-league setup like the one in Major League Baseball.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Championship vs. San Francisco 49ers
News that the AAFC would be disbanded after the 1949 season dampened attendance at the championship game, which Cleveland won 21–7. The Browns scored their first touchdown early in the first quarter on a short rush by Edgar Jones. Cleveland's offense sputtered in the second quarter, however, never advancing beyond their own 38-yard line, and the score remained 7–0 at halftime. A 68-yard rush by Motley for a touchdown gave the Browns a 14–0 lead in the third quarter despite slippery conditions that limited passing and made running difficult.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Championship vs. San Francisco 49ers
The 49ers came back in the fourth quarter with a 73-yard touchdown drive that ended with throw by Albert to Paul Salata for the score. Cleveland then scored again after the next kickoff, however, an 11-play drive capped by a Dub Jones touchdown with six minutes left that turned out to be the last in the AAFC's four-season history. Cleveland's defense had a strong game, limiting the 49ers to just 122 rushing yards and 108 passing yards.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Championship vs. San Francisco 49ers
Warren Lahr batted down a pass from Albert to Salata in the third quarter that would have been a touchdown if he had caught it. Graham threw for 128 yards in the game and rushed for 62 yards. The win gave the Browns the AAFC championship for the fourth time in the league's four years of existence.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Championship vs. San Francisco 49ers
The Browns played a final game in the 1949 season, matching up against a team of AAFC all-stars a week after the championship game in Houston, Texas. The Shamrock Bowl was organized by Glen McCarthy, a Texas oil executive who wanted to bring a football team to Houston. While a Houston-based AAFC team was no longer possible with the league's demise, McCarthy hoped that a well-attended game would convince NFL owners of the viability of a franchise for the city. The game, however, was poorly attended – only about 10,000 people came.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, AAFC playoffs, Championship vs. San Francisco 49ers
It was also marred by racism: it was initially unclear whether the Browns' black players, Motley, Willis and Gillom, would be allowed to play. McCarthy ultimately relented on the issue, but black players were forced to stay at a different hotel from the white players. Cleveland lost the game to the all-stars by a score of 12–7.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Season leaders and postseason
Graham passed for the most yards in the AAFC for the third time running in 1949. Speedie also won the league receiving crown, registering the most catches and the most receiving yards. His 1,028 yards of receiving put him over the 1,000-yard mark for the second time in his career, the first time a professional football player accomplished that feat. Graham, Speedie and Saban were all named to sportswriters' first-team all-AAFC squads. Motley and Lou Rymkus were also named to first- and second-team all-AAFC lists. Lavelli and Bill Willis were consensus second-team all-AAFC.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Season leaders and postseason
The Associated Press and the International News Service both selected All-Pro teams that combined players from the AAFC and NFL. Graham, Speedie, Rymkus and Saban were included on the INS list, while Graham and Speedie made the AP list. Paul Brown was chosen as the AAFC's coach of the year by Sporting News.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Season leaders and postseason
As the AAFC disbanded after the 1949 season, many Browns players were all-time league leaders at their positions. Motley led in rushing yards, Graham led in passing yards, Groza had the most field goals and Speedie led in receptions and receiving yards. Several players retired after the season, including Saban, who left to start a coaching career, and guard Bob Gaudio, who had been with the team since 1947. Edgar Jones, who had been a mainstay of the Browns' offense in its first four years, also retired after the season because of the shoulder injury he suffered during the season. Another departure was Ara Parseghian, a halfback who suffered a career-ending hip injury.


1949 Cleveland Browns season, Season leaders and postseason
Despite the Browns' success in their AAFC years, many owners and sportswriters thought the team was not as good as its NFL counterparts as it prepared to play in the league in the 1950 season. Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was especially dismissive of the Browns, saying the NFL's "weakest team could toy with the Browns." Greasy Neale, the head coach of the NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles, also did not take the Browns seriously and decided not to scout the team when the Eagles were scheduled to open the 1950 season against Cleveland. The Browns went on to beat the Eagles in Philadelphia and win the NFL championship in 1950.


1949 Cleveland Indians season
The 1949 Cleveland Indians season was the 49th in franchise history. The club entered the season as the defending World Champions. On March 5, 1949, Indians minority owner Bob Hope donned a Cleveland Indians uniform and posed with manager Lou Boudreau and vice president Hank Greenberg as the World Series champions opened spring training camp in Tucson, Arizona.


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season
Following their 1948 World Series championship, the 1949 Indians season proved to be a disappointment. Despite having the best overall pitching and fielding statistics in either the American or National Leagues, the Indians finished a distant third place behind the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. A team roster that boasted seven future members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (Lou Boudreau, Larry Doby, Bob Feller, Joe Gordon, Bob Lemon, Satchel Paige, & Early Wynn) could not deliver a second consecutive championship to Cleveland. During the season, Indians fan Charlie Lupica spent 117 days on a flagpole, waiting for the Indians to regain first place. They never did, and he gave up his pursuit when the Indians were mathematically eliminated on September 25.


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Cleveland mayoral election
The Cleveland mayoral election of 1949 saw the reelection of Thomas A. Burke to a third consecutive term.


1949 Cobar state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Cobar on 12 March 1949 because of the death of Mat Davidson (Labor).


1949 Colgate Red Raiders football team
The 1949 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1949 college football season. In its third season under head coach Paul Bixler, the team compiled a 1–8 record and was outscored by a total of 291 to 186. Warren Davis was the team captain. The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.


1949 College Baseball All-America Team
An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.


1949 College Baseball All-America Team
From 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.


1949 College Football All-America Team
The 1949 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1949. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1949 season are (1) the Associated Press, (2) the United Press, (3) the All-America Board, (4) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (5) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (6) the International News Service (INS), (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (8) the Sporting News.


1949 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1949, the NCAA recognizes eight published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.


1949 Colombian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 5 June 1949 to elect the Chamber of Representatives. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 69 of the 132 seats.


1949 Colombian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 27 November 1949. The result was a victory for Laureano Gómez of the Conservative Party, who received all but 23 of the 1.1 million valid votes cast. The opposition Liberal Party withdrew from the election and called for a boycott after their candidate Darío Echandía was the victim of a failed assassination attempt.


1949 Colombian presidential election
It is widely speculated that Jorge Eliécer Gaitán would likely have been elected President had he not been assassinated on 9 April 1948. This assassination occurred immediately prior to the armed insurrection or Bogotazo.


1949 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
The 1949 Colorado A&M Aggies football team represented Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the Skyline Six Conference during the 1949 college football season. In their third season under head coach Bob Davis, the Aggies compiled a 9–1 record (4–1 against Skyline opponents), finished second in the Skyline Conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 206 to 86.


1949 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
Thurman "Fum" McGraw received first-team honors from the International News Service as an offensive tackle on the 1949 College Football All-America Team. He was the first Colorado A&M player to receive first-team All-America honors. McGraw went on to play five seasons in the National Football League as a defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions.


1949 Colorado A&M Aggies football team
Three Colorado Agricultural players received all-conference honors in 1949: McGraw, guard Dale Dodrill, and end George Jones.


1949 Colorado Buffaloes football team
The 1949 Colorado Buffaloes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1949 college football season. Head coach Dallas Ward led the team to a 1–4 mark in the "Big 7" and 3–7 overall.


1949 Columbia Lions football team
The 1949 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University as an independent during the 1949 college football season.


1949 Columbia Lions football team
In their 20th season under head coach Lou Little, the Lions compiled a 2–7 record, and were outscored 276 to 82. Team captains Leon Van Bellingham and James Ward.


1949 Columbia Lions football team
Columbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.


1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
The 1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference was the fourth meeting of the Heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in the United Kingdom in April 1949 and was hosted by that country's prime minister, Clement Attlee.


1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
The principal topic of the conference was the relationship of India, which was intending to become a republic, to the Commonwealth, which, hitherto, had been an association of Britain and British dominions united by sharing a constitutional link by sharing the British sovereign as their head of state, in particular whether a Commonwealth state could become a republic and remain in the Commonwealth, if so, whether it had the same status in the Commonwealth as the dominions who had the British sovereign as their head of state.


1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
The Canadian government feared that if India was not permitted to remain in the Commonwealth as an autonomous republic then Pakistan, Ceylon, and South Africa would soon leave as well, resulting in the Commonwealth's collapse. Australian prime minister Ben Chifley was on one pole during the conference, arguing for maintaining a strong British connection, while South Africa's newly elected nationalist prime minister, D. F. Malan, was on the other pole arguing for complete independence.


1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
In the London Declaration, Commonwealth prime ministers agreed to India's continued membership in the Commonwealth as a republic and that the King would have a new role in the Commonwealth not as a joint head of state but as "the symbol of the free association of its member nations, and as such Head of the Commonwealth."


1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference
Four days before the Conference met, Ireland formally declared itself a republic. The other members of the Commonwealth chose to regard that declaration as terminating Ireland's membership of the Commonwealth. Ireland had not participated in Commonwealth affairs since the 1930s but this was the first conference to be held after Ireland's membership was regarded as terminated.


1949 Concord state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Concord on 12 March 1949 because of the death of Bill Carlton (Labor).


1949 Connecticut Huskies football team
The 1949 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1949 college football season. The Huskies were led by 15th-year head coach J. Orlean Christian and completed the season with a record of 4–4–1.


1949 Copa del Generalísimo Final
The Copa del Generalísimo 1949 Final was the 47th final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Estadio Chamartín in Madrid, on 29 May 1949, being won by Valencia CF, who beat Atlético de Bilbao 1-0.


1949 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1949 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 40th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909.


1949 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
Carrigtwohill won the championship following a 3-10 to 3-05 defeat of Newtownshandrum in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1909.


1949 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1949 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 61st staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887.


1949 Cork Senior Football Championship
On 6 November 1949, Collins won the championship following a 5-11 to 0-01 defeat of Macroom in a replay of the final at the Cork Athletic Grounds. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1929.


1949 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
The 1949 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 61st staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures was made at the Cork Convention on 30 January 1949. The championship began on 10 April 1949 and ended on 18 September 1949.


1949 Cork Senior Hurling Championship
On 18 September 1949, Glen Rovers won the championship following a 6-5 to 0-14 defeat of Imokilly in the final. This was their 12th championship title overall and their second title in succession.


1949 Cornell Big Red football team
The 1949 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1949 college football season. In its third season under head coach George K. James, the team compiled a 8–1 record and outscored their opponents by a total of 284 to 111.


1949 Cornell Big Red football team
Cornell played its home games in Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.


1949 Costa Rican general election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 4 October 1949. They followed the introduction of a new constitution after the Costa Rican Civil War. Voters elected a Vice-President (as none had been chosen in the 1948 elections and the Legislative Assembly. The result was a victory for the National Unity Party, which won 71.7% of the vote. Voter turnout was 43.8% in the vice-presidential election and 49.2% in the parliamentary election.


1949 Cotton Bowl Classic
The 1949 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season game between the SMU Mustangs and the Oregon Webfoots. 20 points were scored in the final quarter.


1949 Cotton Bowl Classic, Background
SMU, despite losing for the first time in 1946, had a banner year once again as Doak Walker won the Heisman Trophy and led SMU to their 2nd consecutive Southwest Conference championship and 2nd straight Cotton Bowl. Oregon had only played in two bowl games, the last being the 1920 Rose Bowl. They shared the Pacific Coast Conference championship with California, who they did not play that season. While the Bears got the Rose Bowl, the Webfoots (in a break of PCC tradition) were sent to the Cotton Bowl. They were coached by Jim Aiken and led by Norm Van Brocklin.


1949 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary
For the second straight Cotton Bowl, Doak Walker started the scoring, this time with a 1-yard touchdown run. Most notable in the game was SMU's deep punts, one by Doak Walker for 79 and one by Kyle Rote for 84, which was crucial in pinning the Webfoots in their own territory. In the third quarter, Kyle Rote added to the lead with a 36-yard touchdown run. As the fourth quarter began, so did the scoring. Norm Van Brocklin threw a pass to Dick Wilkins to narrow the lead, but the kick failed, making it only 14–6. But SMU retaliated with their own score on a Chicken Roberts touchdown run. Oregon scored once more on a Bob Sanders touchdown run, but that was their last score as the game ended 21–13 in SMU's favor.


1949 County Championship
The 1949 County Championship was the 50th officially organised running of the County Championship.


1949 County Championship
The Championship was shared for the first time in its history between Middlesex County Cricket Club and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.


1949 County Championship, Table
If no play possible on the first two days, the match played to one-day laws with 8 points for a win.


1949 Coupe de France Final
The 1949 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes on May 8, 1949, that saw RC Paris defeat Lille OSC 5–2 thanks to goals by Roger Gabet (2), Roger Quenolle and Ernest Vaast.


1949 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
The 1949 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was the third edition of the cycle race and was held from 2 June to 7 June 1949. The race started and finished in Grenoble. The race was won by Lucien Lazaridès of the France-Sport team.


1949 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR
The 1949 Ukrainian Cup was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.


1949 Cupa României Final
The 1949 Cupa României Final was the 12th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between CSCA București and CSU Cluj, and was won by CSCA București after a game with 3 goals. It was the first cup title in the history of CSCA București.


1949 Czechoslovak First League, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and NV Bratislava won the championship. Ladislav Hlaváček was the league's top scorer with 28 goals.


1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix
The I Velká cena Československa was a Grand Prix motor race which was held at Masaryk Circuit on 25 September 1949. The race was won by Peter Whitehead driving a Ferrari 125. Czechoslovak driver Václav Uher died in crash during practice. Giuseppe Farina crashed into spectators in the first lap of the race and killed two of them. Tatraplan of Bruno Sojka was in streamlined configuration.


1949 Dartmouth Indians football team
The 1949 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College during the 1949 college football season.


1949 Davis Cup
The 1949 Davis Cup was the 38th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 24 teams would enter the Europe Zone, and 4 teams would enter the America Zone. Israel made its first appearance in the competition.


1949 Davis Cup
Australia defeated Mexico in the America Zone final, and Italy defeated France in the Europe Zone final. Australia defeated Italy in the Inter-Zonal play-off, but fell to defending champions the United States in the Challenge Round, giving the Americans their 4th straight title and 16th overall. The final was played at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York, United States on 26–28 August.


1949 Davis Cup America Zone
The America Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1949 Davis Cup.


1949 Davis Cup America Zone
4 teams entered the America Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the Europe Zone. Australia defeated Mexico in the final, and went on to face Italy in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1949 Davis Cup Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1949 Davis Cup.


1949 Davis Cup Europe Zone
24 teams entered the Europe Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the America Zone. Italy defeated France in the final, and went on to face Australia in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1949 Dayton Flyers football team
The 1949 Dayton Flyers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1949 college football season. In their third season under head coach Joe Gavin, the Flyers compiled a 6–3 record.


1949 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team
The 1949 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware as an independent during the 1949 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach William D. Murray, the team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 202 to 67. John Miller and Mariano Stalloni were the team captains. The team played its home games at Wilmington Park in Wilmington, Delaware.


1949 Delaware State Hornets football team
The 1949 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College—now known as Delaware State University—as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in the 1949 college football season. The Hornets compiled a 3–5–1 record under coach Tom Conrad.


1949 Delta Bowl
The 1949 Delta Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys and the William & Mary Tribe. This was the second and final Delta Bowl.


1949 Delta Bowl, Background
This was William & Mary's second straight bowl game, after finishing 4th in the Southern Conference. They were selected after the Delta Bowl's first choice (selected prior to the season), Tulsa, finished 0-9-1. Oklahoma A&M was champion of the Missouri Valley Conference for the third time in five seasons.


1949 Delta Bowl, Game summary
A fumble recovery set up Korschcowski's second touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. Jack Cloud ran for 78 yards on 14 carries for the Indians. while Kenny Roof had 63 in seven carries for the Cowboys.


1949 Delta Bowl, Aftermath
Lookabaugh left the program the following year, while McCray stayed on until 1950. The Indians did not return to a bowl game until 1970. This remains their only bowl win. Oklahoma A&M did not reach a bowl game again until 1958, their first year known as Oklahoma State. The Delta Bowl disbanded, likely due to the attendance of this game being 13,000 less than the first game.


1949 Denver Pioneers football team
The 1949 Denver Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Denver in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1949 college football season. In its second season under head coach Johnny Baker, the team compiled a 4–6 record (2–2 against MSC opponents), finished third in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 214 to 192.


1949 Detroit Lions season
The 1949 Detroit Lions season was their 20th in the league. The team improved on their previous season's output of 2–10, winning four games. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 14th consecutive season.


1949 Detroit Lions season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1949 Detroit Tigers season
The 1949 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League with a record of 87–67, 10 games behind the New York Yankees.


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season
Tigers third baseman George Kell beat Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox for the American League batting title by 0.0002 percentage points (.3429 to .3427).


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1949 Detroit Titans football team
The 1949 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1949 college football season. In their fifth year under head coach Chuck Baer, the Titans compiled a 5–4 record (4–0 against conference opponents), won the MVC championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 179 to 165. The 1949 season was Detroit's first in the MVC.


1949 Detroit Titans football team
In addition to head coach Chuck Baer, the team's coaching staff included Bob Ivory (line coach, second year), Eddie Barbour (freshman coach and chief scout), Bill Hintz (freshman coach), and Dr. Raymond D. Forsyth (trainer). Fullback James E. Massey was the team captain.


1949 Dixie Bowl
The 1949 Dixie Bowl, part of the 1948 bowl game season, took place on January 1, 1949, at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The competing teams were the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, representing the Southern Conference (SoCon), and the Baylor Bears, representing the Southwest Conference (SWC). Baylor was victorious in by a final score of 20–7.


1949 Dixie Bowl, Teams, Baylor
The 1948 Baylor squad finished the regular season 5–3–2 with losses against Texas, Tulane and SMU and ties against Mississippi State and Rice. Following their tie against Rice, Dixie Bowl officials extended the Bears an invitation to play in the 1949 edition of the game, which Baylor accepted. The Dixie Bowl appearance marked the first ever postseason bowl game for Baylor.


1949 Dixie Bowl, Teams, Wake Forest
The 1948 Wake Forest squad finished the regular season 6–3 with losses against Boston College, North Carolina and Clemson. Following their victory over Duke, Dixie Bowl officials extended the Demon Deacons an invitation to play in the 1949 edition of the game, which Wake accepted. The appearance marked the first for Wake in the Dixie Bowl and their second overall bowl appearance.


1949 Dixie Bowl, Game summary
Baylor opened the scoring in the first quarter after George Sims intercepted a Wake pass and returned it 52 yards to the Demon Deacons eight-yard line. Sammie Pierce scored from one yard out a few plays later and after Hank Dickerson missed the extra point, the Bears took a 6–0 lead. Baylor extended their lead to 20–0 at halftime after Jerry Mangrum scored from one-yard out and Harold Riley connected with Ray Painter for a 12-yard touchdown reception. Early in the third, Wake scored their only points of the game on a three-yard Mike Sprock run to make the final score 20–7.


1949 Drake Bulldogs football team
The 1949 Drake Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Drake University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1949 college football season. In its first season under head coach Warren Gaer, the team compiled a 6–2–1 record (3–1 against MVC opponents), finished second in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 202 to 95. The team played its home games at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.


1949 Drake Bulldogs football team
Drake halfback Johnny Bright led the nation in total offense in both 1949 and 1950. See List of NCAA major college football yearly total offense leaders. He was the second Africa-American athlete to lead the country in this category after Kenny Washington did so in 1939. Bright later played 11 seasons in the Canadian Football League and was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.


1949 Drexel Dragons football team
The 1949 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1949 college football season. Otis Douglas was the team's head coach.