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Doctors citing the dangerous, high emotional factors of football urged him to get out of football. [3] The 49ers were losing 17–7 when a note reading "Tony's gone" was passed to the coach. They stormed back for a 21–17 upset victory. [1] After Morabito died, majority control of the club passed on to his widow Josephine, and to his brother ...
The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) [7] are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division.
The 49ers entered professional football in 1946 as a member of the All-America Football Conference. They were founded by lumber magnate Tony Morabito, who had tried several times to get an NFL team for the Bay Area, together with Allen E. Sorrell and Ernest J. Turre. Morabito was one of the first to realize that with the advent of air travel ...
The San Francisco 49ers are an American football franchise representing the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers are members of the West division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The 49ers began play in 1946 as charter members of the All-America Football Conference.
Founder, CEO, President Louis G. Spadia (January 11, 1921 – February 17, 2013) was an American football executive who was the general manager of the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1976. He was also the founder of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame .
Kyle Shanahan, the current head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.. There have been 19 head coaches in the history of the San Francisco 49ers professional football franchise. . The San Francisco 49ers franchise was formed in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) before joining the National Football League (NFL) in 1950 after the AAFC merger with the N
Since retiring in 1997, Sapolu and his wife Lisa have lived in Southern California, [2] and remains active in the community as well with the San Francisco 49ers alumni. Sapolu has been an integral part in establishing the Polynesian Pro Football Hall of Fame, of which he is a co-founder. He now runs Men In The Trenches (MITT) in California. [3]
He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, and was selected by the 49ers in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL draft. [1] He was a twice Pro Bowl selection, having been chosen for the 2004 and 2012 Pro Bowls as a special teams player. He is the founder of Jennings 1–4–1, dedicated to developing the skill of long snapping.