The team was a success both financially and on the field under head coach Paul Brown, drawing large crowds and winning all four of the AAFC's championships between 19. The Cleveland Browns were founded and started play in 1946 in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), a league formed to compete with the more established National Football League (NFL). They were the highest ranked team from a season before the 1960s. The 1950 Browns ranked #25 on the 100 greatest teams of all time presented by the NFL on its 100th anniversary.
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Cleveland fullback Marion Motley led the NFL in rushing, and seven Browns were selected to play in the first-ever Pro Bowl, the league's all-star game.
It was the first of six straight NFL championship appearances for the Browns. Cleveland fell behind 28–20 in the fourth quarter against the Rams' potent offense, but quarterback Otto Graham engineered a comeback with a touchdown pass to Rex Bumgardner and a long drive that set up a winning field goal by Lou Groza with 28 seconds left to play. A week later, on Christmas Eve, the Browns faced the Rams at home in the championship. Cleveland won the playoff 8–3 in freezing weather at Cleveland Stadium. The tie forced a playoff to determine whether the Browns or Giants would win the American Conference and play in the championship game. Cleveland's only two losses came against the New York Giants, with whom the team shared a 10–2 record at the end of the regular season. Many sportswriters and owners considered the Browns inferior despite their success in the AAFC, calling them the dominant team in a minor league, but Cleveland defeated Philadelphia 35–10, the first of 10 victories on the season. The team's top draft choice was halfback Ken Carpenter.Īfter winning all five of their preseason games, the Browns faced the two-time defending champion Philadelphia Eagles in their first regular-season game. They included guard Abe Gibron, who went on to a 10-year football career, and Len Ford, a defensive end who had a Hall of Fame career with the Browns. It was Cleveland's fifth consecutive championship victory, the previous four having come in the AAFC.Ĭleveland added 12 new players to its roster before the season began, several of whom came from other AAFC teams that had dissolved as part of a selective merger of the Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers into the NFL in 1949. The Browns finished the regular season with a 10–2 win–loss record and beat the Los Angeles Rams to win the NFL championship. The 1950 Cleveland Browns season was the team's first in the National Football League (NFL) after playing the previous four years in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which folded after the 1949 season.
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