Dallas Texans (NFL)
| Dallas Texans | |||
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| General information | |||
| Founded | January 29, 1952 | ||
| Stadium | Cotton Bowl (games 1–7) traveling team (games 8–12) | ||
| Headquartered | Dallas, Texas (games 1–7) Hershey, Pennsylvania (games 8–12) | ||
| Colors | Royal blue, silver, white | ||
| Personnel | |||
| Owners | Giles Miller and Connell Miller (games 1–7) NFL (games 8–12) | ||
| Head coach | Jim Phelan | ||
| Team history | |||
Dallas Texans (1952) | |||
| League / conference affiliations | |||
| National Football League | |||
The Dallas Texans played in the National Football League (NFL) for one season in 1952. They posted a record of 1–11.
Initially based in Dallas, the team was returned to the league in the middle of the season and became a traveling team based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and Akron, Ohio.
Professional football returned to Dallas in 1960, as the American Football League (AFL) commenced operations with one of its eight charter members in Dallas, also called the Texans, while the NFL added the Dallas Cowboys. The AFL Dallas Texans would later move to Kansas City, Missouri, and be re-branded as the Chiefs in 1963.
After the team folded, the league awarded its assets to the new Baltimore Colts, who retained the team's blue-and-white colors. However, neither the Colts nor the NFL recognize the Texans or their previous incarnations dating back to 1913 as part of the Colts' legacy. Thus, as of 2025, the Dallas Texans are the most recent NFL team to fold and not have its legacy included in that of any other team.