1950 Baltimore Colts season
The 1950 Baltimore Colts season was their 5th & final season as a professional football franchise, their 4th & final season in Baltimore and their only season in the National Football League.
As the "odd" 13th team in the league, the 1950 Baltimore Colts did not play home-and-away games with all their conference rivals, as did the rest of the league, but rather played one game each against the entire league — with the exception they did not play the Chicago Bears, in favor of home-and-away contests against the Washington Redskins, their geographically closest rival. This change allowed the two Chicago teams to continue to develop their own local rivalry with similar home-and-away games.
After falling to defeat seven consecutive times in the preseason, the 1950 Colts matched their 1949 [Baltimore Colts season|previous season's] record of 1–11, failing to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive year.
The 1950 Colts hold the dubious distinction of being the only team in NFL history to allow more than 50 points in four different games in a single season. The 462 points the Colts surrendered is the most of any NFL team in the decade of the 1950s. In their Week 6 loss to the 1950 [Los Angeles Rams season|Rams], the Colts became one of only three teams in NFL history to surrender 70 or more points in a regular season contest.
Preseason games
Schedule
Standings
Coaching staff
- Head coach: Clem Crowe
- Backfield coach: Joel Hunt
- End coach: Wayne Millner
- Line coach: Rocco Pirro
Roster
- 63 Y. A. Tittle
- 68 Adrian Burk P
- 88 Rip Collins CB
- 81 Chet Mutryn
- 83 Frank Spaniel
- 76 Jim Spavital
- 56 Hal Crisler
- 55 Johnny North
- 51 Paul Salata
- 41 Ernie Blandin T
- 33 Ken Cooper G/MG
- 35 Barry French T/DT
- 30 Earl Murray G/T
- 37 John Schweder G
- 22 Joel Williams C
- 32 Sisto Averno MG/G
- 45 Don Colo DT/T
- 49 Art Donovan DT
- 54 Bob Jensen DE
- 57 Bob Oristaglio DE/WR
- 73 Hardy Brown MLB
- 77 George Buksar OLB/FB
- 34 Ed King MLB/OLB
- 72 Veto Kissell OLB/FB/K
- 86 Bob Livingstone S/RB
- 80 Chick Maggioli CB
- 87 Herb Rich CB
- 82 Billy Stone CB/RB
- 89 Ernie Zalejski S/RB
- 78 Leon Campbell FB 7px
- 52 Bob Nowaskey LB 7px
- 59 Jim Owens WR/DE 7px
- 53 Art Spinney WR