Browns history trivia

[The Gipper]

@rich4eagle said:

The Colt franchise that joined in 1950 is the same Franchise as the one in Baltimore now in Indianapolis.

No, it isn't. Check this out from pro-football referenes "Defunct franchise" section:

Year Lg Tm W L T Pts PtsO PtDif Coaches Passing Rushing Receiving Pts Yds Pts Yds T/G Pts± Yds± out of MoV SoS SRS OSRS DSRS

1950 NFL Baltimore Colts 1 11 0 213 462 -249

1949 AAFC Baltimore Colts 1 11 0 172 341 -169

1948 AAFC Baltimore Colts* 7 7 0 333 327

1947 AAFC Baltimore Colts 2 11 1 167 377

The "new" Baltimore Colts didn't start up until about the 1954 season and came out of the remnants of the defunct Dallas Texans franchise that played only 1 year: 1952

The "Four Horsemen" were the guys from Notre Dame..........I do not remember the "of the apocalypse" part however.

Good set of questions............

here are two for you ...........who is the last player in major league history to steal home twice in the same game

Babe Ruth

and who the record for longest punt in NFL History...........

Don't know, but some reason I think it was a guy with the Eagles..or perhaps, Sammy Baugh

[The Gipper]

The "Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame was perhaps used more frequently, but they got there name from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Here is the beginning of the original Grantland Rice Article from which the name came:

The foursome needed some help from Grantland Rice, a sportswriter for the former New York Herald Tribune, to achieve football immortality. After Notre Dame's 13-7 upset victory over a strong Army team, on October 18, 1924, Rice penned a famous passage of sports journalism:

"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."

Of course the reference was to the Biblical passage in Revelations. Whether the football reference usually dropped the "of the Apocalypse" reference that may be so. Here is a little more of the story:

George Strickler, then Rockne's student publicity aide and later sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, made sure the name stuck. He had pitched the idea out loud at the halftime of the Army game in the press box as a tie in to the 1921 Rudolph Valentino movie The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.[1] After the team arrived back in South Bend, he posed the four players, dressed in their uniforms, on the backs of four horses from a livery stable in town. The wire services picked up the now-famous photo, and the legendary status of the Four Horsemen was assured.[2]

You like the "blue-gray color?

[rich4eagle]

Pretty cool. Did not know the Bmore Colts folded after one year 1950. They played each other that year. The Browns never played the Dallas Texans NFL and did not play the Colts again till 1956.

The detail on the Four Horsemen was cool

Babe Ruth was not the last guy to steal home twice in the same game if he ever did. Happened some years later but some time ago.

The punter record is held closer to home

[The Gipper]

@rich4eagle said:

Pretty cool. Did not know the Bmore Colts folded after one year 1950. They played each other that year. The Browns never played the Dallas Texans NFL and did not play the Colts again till 1956.

The detail on the Four Horsemen was cool

Babe Ruth was not the last guy to steal home twice in the same game if he ever did. Happened some years later but some time ago.

The punter record is held closer to home

My original answer for the first Q was going to be Willie Mays. (but honestly I don't think that is right)

and on the second, now that I think about it, it may have been Horace Gillom. That may have been a question I have used in the past.

[The Gipper]

Here are the Four Horsemen:

[rich4eagle]

@the-gipper said:

My original answer for the first Q was going to be Willie Mays. (but honestly I don't think that is right)

and on the second, now that I think about it, it may have been Horace Gillom. That may have been a question I have used in the past

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Both wrong the answer to the first was a first baseman

the answer to the second was way before Horace Gillom..............

[The Gipper]

@rich4eagle said:

Both wrong the answer to the first was a first baseman

the answer to the second was way before Horace Gillom..............

I guess I don't know either then. At this point anything would be a pure guess. But, do I get a smiley face for the effort?

[Mr. T]

@cambridgeho said:

I just read that we almost became the Cleveland Panthers in 1945, but a local businessman claimed he had the rights to that name, so the rest is history. 1950 is the year we Joined the NFL.

I have read that before also.

did you know before the Browns, we had another team in Cleveland called the Cleveland Dons, better known as the LA Dons. Check history here

[SJ_Browns]

@the-gipper said:

OK Browns fans, you need to show us that you all, unlike the majority of the fools from the Hills (Steeler fans) know your Browns history. Here are some trivia questions on that subject. With a several of these I tried to mirror the questions that I asked about the Steelers. Please don't cheat by googling. Show that you can do well on these on your own and that you know something about your team:

1. What year did the Browns join the NFL and what other AAFC teams came with them?

2. Who was the original owner of the Browns, and what sort of business was he in?

3. In 1965, a helmet logo was designed for use by the Browns, but were never used:

A. What did that logo look like?

B. Who led the revolt against the use of that logo?

4. Who did the Browns play in their very first postseason game?

5. When and to whom did the Browns lose their first postseason game?

6. Name at least 3 entities that Paul Brown coached before becoming the coach of the Browns.

7. The Cleveland Browns football team was not the only sports franchise to use that name. What were the other "Cleveland Browns"?

8. How many losing seasons did Paul Brown and Blanton Collier have between them?

9. Who was the youngest person to become the Head Coach of the Browns, and who was the oldest?

10. What team or teams have the Browns played the most in post season play?

11. What percentage of the Browns did Art Modell actually own? Who owned the rest?

Bonus: Paul Brown was a backup QB in high school. The QB he backed up became famous as a member of a particular "group" with a specific "nickname" What "group" was that?

thanks for posting this, gipper. it's always great to read about our teams history.

[hoorta]

@the-gipper said:

Here are the Four Horsemen:

Quinn, Powlus, Mirer, Faust