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The 1957 Cleveland Browns season was the team's eighth season with the National Football League. They were 9–2–1 in the regular season and won the Eastern Conference title, but lost the championship game to the Detroit Lions , 59–14.
Taking full advantage of a pass interception and a fumble, Detroit ran up a 17–0 lead in the first quarter. Rookie running back Jim Brown gave the Cleveland rooters some hope with a 29-yard touchdown run at the start of the second period. Things went from bad to worse for the Browns, hampered by injuries to quarterbacks O'Connell and Plum.
The 1957 National Football League season resulted in a tie for the Western Conference championship between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. Both finished at 8–4 and had split their two games during the regular season in November, with the home team winning each. The tie thus required a one-game playoff to be held between the two teams.
Cleveland won its opener, 6–3 over the Giants and led the Eastern Division from wire to wire. A 17–7 loss to the Eagles in Week Four forced the Browns to share the lead with New York, but the Giants lost the following week and spent the rest of the season trying to catch Cleveland.
The Browns traded him to the Los Angeles Rams, but Zatkoff asked then-NFL commissioner Bert Bell to nix the deal and help him get to Detroit. The Lions beat the Browns for the 1957 championship.
He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 to 1965. Considered one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history, [ 1 ] Brown was selected to a Pro Bowl and All-Pro team every season he was in the league, and was recognized as the AP NFL ...
Cleveland Browns rookie Jim Brown shakes off three tacklers and runs 29 yards for a touchdown in the 1957 NFL championship game. Brown led the league in rushing in all but one season in his career. With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks. [73]
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...