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The 1965 Baltimore Colts season was the 13th season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League 's 1965 season with a record of 10 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie, which tied for first in the Western Conference with the Green Bay Packers .
The NFL treats the Baltimore Colts and the Indianapolis Colts (including logos, history, and records) as one continuous franchise since 1953. Despite this, many former Baltimore Colts players, led by Johnny Unitas, disowned the Colts franchise after the move to Indianapolis, instead choosing to remain loyal to the City of Baltimore.
The following is a list of National Football League (American football) players that were named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team in 1965.Players from the first and second teams are listed, with players from the first team in bold, where applicable.
The club was officially founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953, as the Baltimore Colts, replacing a previous team of that name that folded in 1950. After 31 seasons in Baltimore, Colts owner Robert Irsay moved the team to Indianapolis. The Colts have had 33 starting quarterbacks (QB) in the history of their franchise.
Glenn Emanuel "Zeke" Ressler (born May 21, 1943) is an American former football offensive lineman who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1965 through 1974 for the Baltimore Colts. Ressler was regarded as one of the top college football linemen in the country during his junior and senior years of 1963 and 1964, winning the Maxwell ...
Jim Tunney has seen both ends of the spectrum. He was the NFL’s youngest game official when he was hired as a 30-year-old field judge in 1960, and now is the oldest living retired referee, three ...
The 1965 NFL playoffs determined the champion of the National Football League in professional American football for its 1965 season. Although a single championship game between conference winners was the current format for the league, a tie in the Western Conference standings between the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts necessitated a rare tiebreaker playoff, the first in the league in ...
The Baltimore Colts were the only team willing to give Nowatzke a tryout in 1970, and they signed him to the practice squad as a backup linebacker, not a running back. Five games into the 1970 season, the Colts needed running backs and gave Nowatzke an opportunity.