Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland Browns, best in the eastern division of the pro football league, trotted onto Cleveland's Municipal Stadium field last Sunday to play the Detroit Lions, best in the West, for the 1954 football championship of the U.S. The game was figured close: the Lions, champs for the past two years, were the favorites by a slight margin. But the Browns went wild and won in a stunning, runaway upset. Score...
...were a strategic contest of coaches' brains. Although his crack passer and quarterback, Otto Graham, knows as much football as any player in the business, Brown minutely directs the strategy. He has won five straight eastern titles, but none of these was followed by a national championship...
...weeks ago, in a "meaningless" league game that did not effect the league standings and had no bearing on the championship, the Lions had worked their old hex on the Browns, winning the game, in a driving snowstorm, by 14 to 10. Brilliant Quarterback Bobby Layne (TIME, Nov. 29), passing as if it were a calm, dry day, completed six passes in the closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field...
Detroit's Last Gasp. It was probably the best football day that Graham ever had. Cleveland's first two touchdowns came on Graham passes-the first scoring passes he had ever registered against Detroit in a league or championship game...
...Canadiens have not won an N.H.L. championship since 1947, but this year they devoutly expect to beat both the formidable Detroit Red Wings and the skilled but conservative Toronto Maple Leafs in the league standings and in the Stanley Cup (a sort of World Series of hockey). Boom-Boom himself is confident, and when victory is in sight, as he puts it eloquently, "Oh boy, then we hit it up. We eat good, we see a show, we have a big time. It's a great life. I love hockey...