On This Day in History, March 22: Remember the Football Dodgers?
This little item appeared on the sports page of the March 22, 1942, Brooklyn Eagle:
“REV. ELLIOTT OF GRID DODGERS NOW IN ARMY. The Rev. Wilson Elliott has notified the Brooklyn football Dodgers he would be unable to play in the National League next Fall. It became known yesterday, Elliott, a six-foot-two, 230-pound tackle from the University of Chattanooga, has enlisted in the army as chaplain. He was Brooklyn’s 17th choice in the player draft last December [1941].”
So much is known and talked about the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team that it wouldn’t be surprising that some of our readers never knew there was a Brooklyn Dodgers football team.