Quincy Giants Atlantic Coast Football League

Quincy Giants

Atlantic Coast Football League (1969)

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Born: August 6, 1969 – The Lowell Giants relocate to Quincy, MA1UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL. “Lowell Giants Now in Quincy.” The Globe (Boston, MA). August 7, 1969
Folded: Postseason 1969

First Game: September 5, 1969 (L 20-7 vs. Roanoke Buckskins)
Last Game
: November 21, 1969 (L 31-0 @ Bridgeport Jets)

ACFL Championships: None

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The Atlantic Coast Football League of 1962 – 1973 was likely the closest pro football has ever come to having a true “triple-A” minor league, similar to baseball. At the league’s peak in the late 1960’s, NFL teams such as the New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins maintained farm clubs in the ACFL. 
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Background

The Quincy Giants were a minor league football outfit that played for one season in this border city on the southern edge of Boston during the fall of 1969.  The franchise previously played in northern Massachusetts as the Lowell Giants from 1966 to 1968 and shifted to Quincy less than a month before the first game of the 1969 schedule. The Giants were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League, competing against teams from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

30-year old former Boston Patriots defensive back Ross O’Hanley coached the team to a 2-9 last place finish in the ACFL’s Northern Division. The Giants folded at the end of the season.

The ACFL  played its final season in 1973.

 

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Editor's Pick

Outsiders II

by Bob Gill with Tod Maher & Steve Brainerd
 
Outsiders II covers the independent minor leagues of professional football from 1951 through 1985. This volume contains histories and yearly statistical summaries for the top minor leagues of the period, plus the World Football League, which has a claim to major league status, and the United States Football League, which was clearly a major league. It also includes yearly summaries for the best of the lesser leagues, which featured a good number of interesting players in their own right.
 
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In Memoriam

Giants head coach Ross O’Hanley died of a brain tumor on April 7th, 1972 at age 33.

Giants quarterback Don Allard, a former Boston College signal caller drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1959 NFL draft, passed away on May 4, 2002 at age 66.

 

Downloads

8-16-1969 Giants @ Hartford Knights Roster

8-16-1969 Quincy Giants @ Hartford Knights Roster

 

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Atlantic Coast Football League Media Guides

Atlantic Coast Football League Programs

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  1. I remember my dad taking me to one of the games. I was 13. QB was Brian Dowling, former Yale standout who had been drafted by the Patriots.

    Don’t recall who they were playing but I have a vague memory of the game being ended prematurely by the refs because of an on-field rumble by both teams.

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