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This season Brown's touch left him. Favored to win the eastern title, his Browns won only half of their 14 games. Last week pro football's winningest coach was fired by Cleveland President Arthur Modell. "I knew this happened to other people." said Brown. "But I never thought it could happen...
...cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High is unbeaten and untied...
...aloof, single-wing wizard whom Knute Rockne called "football's greatest coach," a Texas-born, West Point-educated authoritarian who in a quarter century of time borrowed from his official career as an Army engineer built the University of Tennessee's Volunteers into the nation's "winningest" football team, ran up a record of 171 wins...
...earned-run average (3.01) and consecutive, victories (10), tied Cincinnati's Joey Jay for most games won (21). He also pitched a no-hitter-his second in two years. By season's end, Spahn had won his 30gth game, needed only 17 more to become the winningest lefthander of all time. With Maris and Mickey Mantle behind him in the Yankee lineup, Ford led the American League in victories (25). Other top pitchers: Washington's steady Dick Donovan, whose 2.40 earned-run average was the best in the American League; Los Angeles' fireballing Sandy Koufax...
...hitter. Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, 40, beat Chicago, 8-0, became the fourth pitcher in major-league history to win 20 games in each of twelve seasons. The others: Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson. Spahn now has 308 victories, needs only 17 more to become the winningest lefthander of all time...