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The Detroit Lions (8–4), winners of the Western Conference in a playoff the previous week, [7] hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), champions of the Eastern Conference. Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also at Briggs Stadium, but lost quarterback Bobby Layne with a broken right ankle late ...
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.
The Browns have won four NFL championships, all of which pre-date the existence of the Super Bowl. The Browns' four championships are tied for the tenth most total championships amongst all 32 NFL franchises. [1] They are one of four current teams to have never played in the Super Bowl. [2] Two of these teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the ...
The Lions had beaten the Browns to win championships in 1952 and ’53 before losing to them, badly, in ’54. As the players did calisthenics and ran pass routes and booted balls high into the ...
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]
After a 6-game preseason slate, the league's 12 teams played a 12-game league schedule — 72 regular season contests in all. The season ended on Sunday, December 28, with a "World's Championship Playoff" held in the home city of the Western Conference champions, [ 1 ] won 59–14 by the Detroit Lions over the Cleveland Browns .
"The Detroit History Podcast" looked at that championship Lions team five years ago, when the team was mired in a decades-long rut. The team had a 6-10 record in 2018. The team had a 6-10 record ...
Joe Schmidt, the Hall of Fame linebacker who led the Detroit Lions to their last championship in 1957, died Wednesday. He was 92 years old. Joe Schmidt, Detroit Lions star LB on 1957 champions and ...