50 Quick Facts About The Indianapolis Colts , livre ebook
12
pages
English
Ebooks
2014
Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage
Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus
Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement
Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement
12
pages
English
Ebooks
2014
Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage
Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne En savoir plus
Publié par
Date de parution
10 février 2014
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781783335688
Langue
English
Publié par
Date de parution
10 février 2014
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781783335688
Langue
English
Title Page
50 Quick Facts About The Indianapolis Colts
by
Wayne Wheelwright
Publisher Information
50 Quick Facts About The Indianapolis Colts
published in 2014 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
The right of Wayne Wheelwright to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998
Copyright © 2014 Wayne Wheelwright
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any person who does so may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
The Facts The Indianapolis Colts franchise began in 1953 in Baltimore when a group led by Carroll Rosenbloom got the go ahead to form a Baltimore based NFL franchise. He was awarded what remained of the Dallas texans and they played their first season in Baltimore in 1953 where led by Keith Molesworth they finished their first season with a 3-9 record. The Baltimore Colts didn’t achieve a winning season until 1957 and during the 1958 season notched a 9-3 record and for the first time in their history reached the NFL Championship Game where they beat the New York Giants 23-17 which is widely regarded as one of the greatest games in football history and was the first game to use the overtime rule. The Colts finished the 1959 season with a 9-3 record and beat the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game 31-16 recording their second championship in a row with a remarkably similar season to the preceding one. The Colts would wait 4 years before returning to the NFL Championship. Following the back to back championships the Colts went through a transitional phase seeing departing head coach Ewbank to Don Shula in 1963. In only Shula’s second season in charge the Colts finished with a 12-2 record but lost to the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship. In 1968 the Colts beat the Cleveland Browns 34-0 leading up to Superbowl III which led to many calling the 1968 Colts one of the best football teams of all time, however they were defeated at Superbowl III by the unfavored New York Jets by a score of 16-7. In the AFL/NFL merger in 1970 the Colts along with the Browns and the Steelers, the Colts joined the ten AFL teams in the American Football COnference. New coach Don McCafferty started the Colts new status in spectacular fashion finishing the season with a 11-2-1 record
