December 27, 1964 - 50 Years Ago

• BRF

  

  Fifth grader BRF was huddled around a little transistor radio listening to the game.
  
  Information courtesy of Wikipedia:
  
  
  
  1:30 PM EST CBS WERE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  1. 2. 3. 4.
  Colts 0 0 0 0 0
  Browns 0 0 17 10 27
  
  
  Game weather: 34°F, relative humidity 75%, wind 15.2 mph, wind chill 23°F
  Game attendance: 79,554
  Referee: Norm Schachter
  TV announcers (CBS): Chuck Thompson (BAL) (second half) and Ken Coleman (CLE) (first half) (play-by-play), Frank Gifford (color commentator)
  
  
  Game information
  Third Quarter
  CLE - Lou Groza 43 yard field goal - Browns 3-0
  CLE - Gary Collins 18 yard pass from Frank Ryan - (Lou Groza kick) Browns 10-0
  CLE - Gary Collins 42 yard pass from Frank Ryan - (Lou Groza kick) Browns 17-0
  Fourth Quarter
  CLE - Lou Groza 10 yard field goal - Browns 20-0
  CLE - Gary Collins 51 yard pass from Frank Ryan - (Lou Groza kick) Browns 27-0
  
  
  
  
  Referee Umpire Head Linesman Back Judge Field Judge Alternates
  1964 NFL Championship Game Baltimore (56) Norm Schachter (57) Joe Connell (30) George Murphy (25) Tom Kelleher (16) Mike Lisetski (52) George Rennix, (29) Stan Jaworowski
  
  
  
  1964 Cleveland Browns roster
  
  Quarterbacks
  
  11 Jim Ninowski
  13 Frank Ryan
  
  Running Backs
  
  
  32 Jim Brown FB
  36 Charley Scales
  44 Leroy Kelly KR/PR
  48 Ernie Green
  
  Wide Receivers
  
  
  27 Walter Roberts KR/PR
  42 Paul Warfield
  85 Clifton McNeil
  86 Gary Collins P
  87 Tom Hutchinson
  
  Tight Ends
  
  
  83 Johnny Brewer
  
  Offensive Linemen
  
  
  56 John Morrow C
  60 John Wooten G
  62 Dale Memmelaar G
  66 Gene Hickerson G
  70 John Brown T
  73 Monte Clark T
  75 Roger Shoals T
  77 Dick Schafrath T
  
  Defensive Linemen
  
  
  69 Jim Kanicki DT
  72 Mike Bundra DT
  74 Dick Modzelewski DT
  78 Frank Parker DT
  79 Bob Gain DT
  80 Bill Glass DE
  84 Paul Wiggin DE
  
  Linebackers
  
  
  35 Galen Fiss OLB
  
  38 Stan Sczurek OLB
  50 Vince Costello MLB
  52 Mike Lucci MLB
  64 Ed Bettridge MLB
  67 Sid Williams OLB
  82 Jim Houston OLB/DE
  
  Defensive Backs
  
  
  20 Ross Fichtner S
  22 Lowell Caylor S
  23 Larry Benz S
  24 Bobby Franklin S
  26 Dave Raimey CB
  30 Bernie Parrish CB
  49 Walter Beach CB
  
  Special Teams
  
  
  76 Lou Groza K
  
  
  
  
  1964 Cleveland Browns staff
  Head Coaches
  Head Coach – Blanton Collier
  Offensive Coaches
  Offensive Line - Fritz Heisler
  Offensive Backfield and Ends - Dub Jones
  Defensive Coaches
  Defensive Coordinator - Howard Brinker
  Defensive Assistant - Nick Skorich
  Linebackers - Ed Ulinski
  
  
  
  
  Radio
  Flagship station Play-by-play Color commentator
  WERE-AM Gib Shanley Jim Graner
  Pre season TV
  Local TV Play-by-play Color commentator
  WEWS-TV Ken Coleman Warren Lahr
• like_that

  

  My dad was at this game.
• BRF

  

  ^^^ He should be interviewed by the Cleveland news channels!
• mhs95_06

  Replays on TV were very new. Before then if you missed it live, you missed it, just like being at the game. My dad and I watched it and couldn't wait to see the "isolated camera" on how Collins beat his defender on each TD.
• BRF

  

  I love looking at that roster.
• Footwedge

  BRF;1689760 wrote:I love looking at that roster.

  LOL at Walter "the flea" Roberts. I was there and honestly I thought it was colder than that. Mom and dad had just bought themselves a new hi-fi stereo for Christmas and I went home and listened to the radio broadcast that was replayed that evening. Gib's calls were chilling. "Pitch to Jim Brown...he's the fifty...he's to the 40. he's to the 30, he's tripped up at the 19 yard line.
  
  I remember the play like it was yesterday. Browns were going to the closed end and either Bobby Boyd or Jenny Lyles shoe string tackled Jimmy just as he cutting across the field on the infield dirt. It was right in front of us we sat on the 25 yard line (behind the first base dugout) That led to Ryan's first TD pass to Collins giving the Browns a 10 zip lead.
  
  In the Akron paper today, the FRONT PAGE headline was the reference to that game. In the article it said the Colts averaged 31 points a game and gave up 17 points per game. That is unreal.
  
  My dad. my brother and I went to every home game that year. Funny that the only other game that I remember was when Jim Bakkin kicked a field goal at the gun giving the Cardinals a 33-33 tie.
• BRF

  

  ^^^^ Great stories!
  
  Jim Bakken......hadn't heard nor thought about him in a long time.
• Tiernan

  like_that;1689525 wrote:My dad was at this game.

  Yeahhh...I recall kicking his ass in the parking lot that day.
• HitsRus

  

  Ryan to Collins .... Touchdown!!!
• Tiernan

  So let me get this straight the 3 biggest tools in the entire NFL go to a dope smokin' stripper party and can't answer the bell for a morning meeting even tho they all know they are under more scrutiny than any other players on the team...yeah these fkg turds are an embarrassment to a fkg team that really has discovered new depths of embarrassment over the past 50 years.
• Footwedge

  Tiernan;1689904 wrote:So let me get this straight the 3 biggest tools in the entire NFL go to a dope smokin' stripper party and can't answer the bell for a morning meeting even tho they all know they are under more scrutiny than any other players on the team...yeah these fkg turds are an embarrassment to a fkg team that really has discovered new depths of embarrassment over the past 50 years.

  Wrong thread.
• Tiernan

  Uh...don't think so Wedgie, and btw with your credibility around here lately I'd keep my mouth shut and lay low for awhile. I'm the new sheriff in OC Town entering 2015.
• Footwedge

  Tiernan;1689917 wrote:Uh...don't think so Wedgie, and btw with your credibility around here lately I'd keep my mouth shut and lay low for awhile. I'm the new sheriff in OC Town entering 2015.

  LOL
• salto

  

  Tiernan;1689917 wrote:. I'm the new sheriff in OC Town entering 2015.

  
• BRF

  

  Salto....closin' it down!
  
  ha ha!
• vball10set

  Tiernan;1689820 wrote:Yeahhh...I recall kicking his ass in the parking lot that day.

  You drive a tow truck in Athens???
• BRF

  

  And I have now lived 50 years past the last Browns championship.
• Footwedge

  BRF;1690191 wrote:And I have now lived 50 years past the last Browns championship.

  Sweatshirts are flying off the racks this year with the caption reading. " just one, before I die". In our case "just one more before we die".
• like_that

  

  vball10set;1690080 wrote:You drive a tow truck in Athens???

  I like you, but the fact you have piggy'd tiernan and defended iqqy in two different threads leads me to believe you are the one who is butt hurt.
• GoChiefs

  

  like_that;1690290 wrote:I like you, but the fact you have piggy'd tiernan and defended iqqy in two different threads leads me to believe you are the one who is butt hurt.

  Reps.
• SportsAndLady

  

  like_that;1690290 wrote:I like you, but the fact you have piggy'd tiernan and defended iqqy in two different threads leads me to believe you are the one who is butt hurt.

  I like vball too but the guy is bipolar. Had no problem with him but all of a sudden he takes a few attacks at me out of nowhere.
  
  So I take a few shots back at him and rustle his feathers (which is easy to do). Oh well
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;1690300 wrote:I like vball too but the guy is bipolar. Had no problem with him but all of a sudden he takes a few attacks at me out of nowhere.
  
  So I take a few shots back at him and rustle his feathers (which is easy to do). Oh well

  lol, back at ya', S&L--I think we're the kind of posters who keep this thing going...here's hoping for more of the same in '15
• SportsAndLady

  

  vball10set;1690302 wrote:lol, back at ya', S&L--I think we're the kind of posters who keep this thing going...here's hoping for more of the same in '15

  Im not bipolar..when you take shots at me I take shots back.
  
  At least you are bipolar and not straight depressed like everyone else in Toledo. Must be nice to have some "good days" when living in that shithole of a place.
• vball10set

  SportsAndLady;1690305 wrote:Im not bipolar..when you take shots at me I take shots back.
  
  At least you are bipolar and not straight depressed like everyone else in Toledo. Must be nice to have some "good days" when living in that shithole of a place.

  actually, I only react to your shots, not initiate them...but hey, one of you already knew that
• SportsAndLady

  

  vball10set;1690310 wrote:actually, I only react to your shots, not initiate them...but hey, one of you already knew that

  Bullshit. In an ohio state thread you took a random out of nowhere shot at me. You saw my above comment, I like you as a poster and wouldn't waste my time making fun of you/Toledo if I wasn't provoked first.
  
  I'm not going to go look it up but you know what I'm talking about.