Los Angeles Dons
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The Los Angeles Dons were an American football team in the newly formed football league the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949, and played their home games in the Los Angeles Memorial C
Dons logo 1947
As with many professional football teams of the 1940s and 1950s, the Dons had their own fight song.
Don Ameche
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Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer
Los Angeles Dons
…Lindheimer, a California businessman and longtime football fan. Other owners included Hollywood notables Louis B. Mayer, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and actor Don Ameche. The Dons' head coach was "Dud" DeGroot, a Stanford football player who had gone on to earn a PhD from that institution. He was the head coach of the…
Ameche on the set of International Showtime in 1964
Ameche and Carmen Miranda in That Night in Rio (1941)
Ameche in 1946
Ameche in the 1938 film Alexander's Ragtime Band