Commissioner Brandon Rose
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1965 Season Kicks Off On August 25
The 1965 Odyssey Football League kicks off on August 25.
Week 1
Minnesota at Pittsburgh
Providence at New York Jets
Arizona at New Orleans
Dallas at San Francisco
Los Angeles at Edmonton
Boston at New York Giants
Chicago at Detroit
Cleveland at Montreal
Kansas City at Birmingham
Wasatch at Honolulu
Sub-Coach Plea: Teams in red print need a sub-coach. If you can sub-coach please contact the opposing coach with the dates and times you can play ASAP. Your help is appreciated.
Davis All-Stars Win the 1965 Pro Bowl
The 1964 Odyssey Football League Pro Bowl was played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii in warm weather with a light rain falling. The "Termite Palace" was packed to rafters with the locals wanting a high-scoring offensive shootout. Instead they got a defensive of titanic proportions. In the end the Al Davis Conference All-Stars caused six turnovers and defeated the Pete Rozelle Conference All-Stars 17-10. After a scoreless first quarter the Al Davis All-Stars got on the scoreboard early in the second quarter when PR Mel Renfro went 80 yards for a touchdown. K Wayne Walker added the extra point. Davis All-Stars 7 Rozelle All-Stars 0. For the remainder of the first half both defenses made big stops and/or caused turnovers. Then with a little more than four minutes left in the first-half the Rozelle All-Stars went on an 11 play 85 yard scoring drive. The drive ended when QB Fran Tarkenton hit WR Paul Warfield with a 5-yard pass on a quick slant in the end zone. K Gino Cappelletti added the extra point tying the game at 7 aside at halftime. The Davis All-Stars wasted little time putting points on the board to start the second half taking the kickoff and driving for a 23-yard field goal by K Wayne Walker. Al Davis All-Stars 10 Pete Rozelle All-Stars 7. The rest of the third quarter was a defensive battle with both offenses struggling to get anything going. Finally in the fourth quarter Al Davis All-Stars QB Johnny Unitas put a drive together that ended with him running into the end zone from eleven yards out. With K Wayne Walker's point after the score was now the Al Davis All-Stars 17 Pete Rozelle All-Stars 7. Not only was the Davis All-Stars defense making life miserable for the Rozelle All-Stars the game clock was against them as well. With a little more than ten minutes remaining in the game the Rozelle All-Stars needed two scores and one had to be a touchdown. Rozelle All-Stars QB Fran Tarkenton - getting more playing time than starting QB Charley Johnson who had tossed five interceptions - threw caution to the wind and aired it out putting together a 13 play 56 yard drive that stalled out and ended with a 24-yard K Gino Cappelletti field goal. Davis All-Stars 17 Rozelle All-Stars 10. That was the last scoring effort for the Rozelle All-Stars. The Davis All-Stars all but ran out the clock and then squashed the last second desperation throws by Rozelle All-Stars QB Fran Tarkenton to possibly tie up the game. At the post-game ceremony Davis All-Stars CB-PR Mel Renfro was named the games MVP.
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