1965 AFL All-Stars

         The AFL All-Star Game played after the 1965 season, on January 15, 1966 at Houston's Rice Stadium saw the introduction of a new format. Instead of the old East-West All-Stars match-up, the champions of the League, the Buffalo Bills, met a team of all-stars selected from the other AFL teams. The game was a story with two chapters: the first half and the second half. It was a game that would foreshadow the future of the AFL in the form of one person, Joe Namath. The game was witnessed by 35,572 fans at Houston’s Rice Stadium. The coaches were Sid Gillman for the All-Stars and Joe Collier of Buffalo.
         To my knowledge, there were no separate AFL East or AFL West selections, and I have not been able to locate a group photo of the All-Stars. Included below is a Murray Olderman sketches of Lance Alworth, courtesy of AFL fan Gary Thorman.
         The AFL All-Stars on the Bills squad are noted in the list, and their names are in blue in the roster below. In addition to the AFL Coaches All-Star selections, others who played in the game are listed for the offensive and defensive squads. Jersey numbers shown for the players are their usual numbers, not those worn in the game, as few photos remain from the event.

        FRONT ROW: Paul Maguire, Wray Carlton, Pete Gogolak, Hagood Clarke, George Saimes, Booker Edgerson, Willie Ross, Glenn Bass, Charley Warner, Tom Janik, Sullivan "Pete" Mills, Bobby Smith.

   SECOND ROW: Trainer Ed Abramowski, Ed Rutkowski, Bill Groman, Butch Byrd, Mailon Kent, Jack Kemp, Head Coach Lou Saban, Daryle Lamonica, Floyd Hudlow, Gene Sykes, Don Stone, Tom Day, Assistant Coach Joel Collier, Assistant Coach Jerry Smith.

   THIRD ROW: Equipment Manager Tony Marchitte, Assistant Coach Johnny Mazur, Dave Behrman, Joe Auer, Billy Joe, Dudley Meredith, Ron McDole, Jim Dunaway, George Flint, Bill Laskey, John Tracey, Paul Costa, Ernie Warlick, Remi Prudhomme, Assistant Equipment Manager Ron Krauza.

   FOURTH ROW: Woody Ward, Doug Goodwin (taxi squad), Co-Captain Billy Shaw, Al Bemiller, Tom Keating, Mike Stratton, Co-Captain Tom Sestak, Joe O'Donnell, Dick Hudson, Harry Jacobs, Stew Barber, Charley Ferguson, Marty Schottenheimer, Jim Davidson, Henry Schmidt.

      MISSING FROM PHOTO: Elbert Dubenion, Fred Moore, Bo Roberson.
Photo by Robert L. Smith

Photo Courtesy of Denny Lynch, Buffalo Bills Archivist

1965 All-Stars
OFFENSE
Lance Alworth	19	wr	San Diego Chargers
Lionel Taylor	87	wr	Denver Broncos
Willie Frazier	83	te	Houston Oilers
Ron Mix	74	ot	San Diego Chargers
Jim Tyrer	73	ot	Kansas City Chiefs
Billy Shaw	66	g	Buffalo Bills
Wayne Hawkins	65	g	Oakland Raiders
Jim Otto	00	c	Oakland Raiders
Jack Kemp	16	qb	Buffalo Bills
John Hadl	21	qb	San Diego Chargers
Joe Namath *	12	qb	New York Jets
Paul Lowe	23	hb	San Diego Chargers
Cookie Gilchrist	2	fb	Denver Broncos
Gino Cappelletti	25	pk, wr	Boston Patriots
DEFENSE
Jerry Mays	75	de	Kansas City Chiefs
Earl Faison	96	de	San Diego Chargers
Ernie Ladd	77	dt	San Diego Chargers
Tom Sestak	70	dt	Buffalo Bills
Nick Buoniconti	85	mlb	Boston Patriots
Bobby Bell	75	lb	Kansas City Chiefs
Mike Stratton	58	lb	Buffalo Bills
Frank Buncom **	55	lb	San Diego Chargers
.Dave Grayson	45	db	Oakland Raiders
.Speedy Duncan	45	db	San Diego Chargers
George Saimes	26	db	Buffalo Bills
Dainard Paulson	40	db	New York Jets

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* All-Star Game Offensive MVP	** All-Star Game Defensive MVP

AFL ALL-STAR GAME SUMMARY

         The link below will take you to a game summary, originally created by Mark Bolding#. Most of the content of this and the other AFL All-Star Game summaries was retrieved from the 'Internet Archive Wayback Machine' at archive.org/web/web.php, which claims copyright for the work.

         Bolding's original site classified the games by the calendar year they were played in. Since they were played at the end of AFL seasons and the All-Stars involved were so chosen for their play in those seasons, I classify them by the AFL season which they represented. Thus the AFL All-Star Game that featured stars of the 1965 season was played in January 1966.

1965 Season AFL All-Star Game:

January 15, 1966

#'Wayback' link

AFL All-Star Squads, 1960-1969
1960	No game was played in 1960. Click here for the 1960 AFL All-Stars
1961	West Squad	East Squad
1962	West Squad	East Squad
1963	West Squad	East Squad
1964	West Squad	East Squad
1965	Bills versus All-Stars
1966	West Squad	East Squad
1967	West Squad	East Squad
1968	West Squad	East Squad
1969	West Squad	East Squad

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