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{{Infobox Pre-modern NFL team
| name = New York Yankees
| bgcolor = Blue
| fontcolor = White
| helmet =
| logo =
| founded = 1936
| suspended =
| folded = 1937
| relocated =
| location = [[New York, New York]], [[United States]]
| field = [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] <br> [[Triborough Stadium]]
| league = [[American Football League (1936) |American Football League]] (1936–1937)
| conference =
| division =
| colors = Red, White, Blue {{color box|red}} {{color box|white}} {{color box|blue}}
| history = '''New York Yankees (1936–37)'''
| nickname =
| coach = [[Jack McBride]] (1936–1937)
| manager =
| owner = James Bush (president)
| championships =
| AFL 1 championships =
| AFL 2 championships =
| AFL 3 championships =
| AAFC championships =
| mascot =
| website =
}}
The '''New York Yankees''' of the [[American Football League (1936)|second American Football League]] was the second professional [[American football]] team competing under that name. It is unrelated to the [[New York Yankees (NFL)|Yankees]] of the [[American Football League (1926)|first AFL]] (and the [[National Football League]]), the [[New York Yankees (1940 AFL)|Yankees]] of the [[American Football League (1940)|third AFL]], the [[New York Yankees (1940 AFL)|Yankees]] of the [[American Association (football)|American Association]] (then also called the American Football League) and the (later) [[New York Yankees (AAFC)|Yankees]] of the [[All-America Football Conference]]. The Yankees played their home games in [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] and [[Triborough Stadium]] in [[New York, New York]]. [[Jack McBride]] was the team’s head coach throughout its existence; Yankees' president James Bush served as president of the second American Football League in 1936.

Formed by signing [[National Football League]] players, primarily [[New York Giant]]s, the 1936 Yankees (including back [[Elmer Strong]] and tackle [[Jess Quatse]])<ref>David L. Porter, editor, ''Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football'' (Greenwood Press 1987) {{ISBN|0-313-25771-X}}</ref><ref>David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen, NS Rick Korch, ''The Football Encyclopedia:The Complete, Year-by-Year History of Professional Football From 1892 to the Present'' (St. Martin's Press 1990) {{ISBN|0-312-11435-4}}</ref> battled the [[Boston Shamrocks (AFL)|Boston Shamrocks]] and the [[Cleveland Rams]] for the league title (which Boston won). New York Giants-turned-Yankees also included end [[Les Borden]] and back [[Stu Clancy]].<ref name="autogenerated1978">George Gipe, ''The Great American Sports Book'' (Doubleday 1978) {{ISBN|0-385-13091-0}}</ref> The 1937 edition of the Yankees was never truly in the running as league newcomers [[Los Angeles Bulldogs]] were the only AFL team with a winning record as Los Angeles dominated the league with an unbeaten, untied 8–0–0 record (the Yankees finished in third place for the second straight year, this time with 2–3–1).

While there was no "official" all-AFL team declared for the 1936 season, guard [[Alex Drobnitch]] was the sole Yankee to be named to the All-League team in 1937. Other Yankees stars include [[Dean Nesmith]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ksathletictrainers.org/main/halloffame.shtml|publisher=Kansas Athletic Trainers Society|title=KATS Hall of Fame|accessdate=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706003250/http://ksathletictrainers.org/main/halloffame.shtml|archivedate=July 6, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Charlie Segal]], [[Al Rose]], and [[Irv Klein|Irv "King Kong" Klein]].<ref name="autogenerated1978"/>

The complete domination of the AFL by the Bulldogs decimated attendance in [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] as LA played the second half of its season on the [[Pacific Coast|American West Coast]] (while the Yankees averaged roughly 14,000 in attendance in 1936, the number was cut to about 5000 in 1937). With all the AFL clubs (except Los Angeles) deeply in the red, the second American Football League – and the Yankees – closed up shop at the end of the 1937 season.<ref>Bob Carroll, Michael Gershman, David Neft, and John Thorn, ''Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League'' (HarperCollins 1999) {{ISBN|0-06-039232-0}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1978"/>

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|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Year !! W !! L !! T !! Finish !! Head Coach
|-
| [[1936 American Football League season|1936]] || 5 || 3 || 2 || 3rd ([[American Football League (1936) |AFL]]) || [[Jack McBride]]
|-
| [[1937 American Football League season|1937]] || 2 || 3 || 1 || 3rd ([[American Football League (1936) |AFL]]) || Jack McBride
|}

== Link to AFL III Yankees? ==
Some sources indicate the Yankees of the [[AFL III|third American Football League]] (1940) a continuation of the 1936–1937 Yankees, citing a common head coach ([[Jack McBride]]) and the continuing existences of two other AFL II teams, the [[Cincinnati Bengals (AFL)|Cincinnati Bengals]] (which also competed in the third AFL) and the [[Los Angeles Bulldogs]] (which became a founding member of the [[Pacific Coast Professional Football League]] in 1940 – after competing with Cincinnati in the [[Midwest Football League (1935–1940)|American Professional Football League]], which ironically called itself the American Football League in 1938). While circumstantial evidence hints at the Yankees having a similar continuation, there is no record of any Yankees games played in 1938 and 1939, and the 1940 Yankees team had different ownership/management from its 1937 namesakes, aside from their common head coach. They had a center, [[Henry Bogacki]] who played on the team.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{AFL II}}

[[Category:American Football League (1936) teams]]
[[Category:American football teams in New York City]]
[[Category:American football teams established in 1936]]
[[Category:American football teams disestablished in 1937]]
[[Category:1936 establishments in New York City]]
[[Category:1937 disestablishments in New York (state)]]

New York Yankees (1936 AFL) - Revision history

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