![]() ![]() The Browns had clobbered the Giants 42-20 halfway through the year, but that was at Cleveland. Louis was a solid favorite over the Philadelphia Eagles in its finale the next day. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Browns 28-19 the week before to move to 8-3-2 and just a half-game behind them. This time, it was not the Giants with whom they were battling, but rather the St. 12, 1964 – BROWNS 52, NEW YORK GIANTS 20 – AT NEW YORK – The 9-3-1 Browns went into this regular-season finale on a Saturday afternoon with the chance to clinch the conference title by winning. The Browns would run their season-opening mark to 6-0 before falling off and finishing 10-4, a game behind the Giants in the East, but they had made their statement about being for real.ĭEC. Frank Ryan, who was installed as the starting quarterback by Collier after sharing the job with Jim Ninowski in 1962 in his first year with the Browns, was near-perfect, completing 12-of-16 passes for 169 yards and three touchdowns. ![]() As he was so many times in his nine-year career with Cleveland, Jim Brown was the star, rushing for 123 yards and two touchdowns and also being the top receiver in the game with four catches for 86 yards and a score. After falling behind 17-7 in the second quarter, they came roaring back to outscore the hosts 28-7 the rest of the way to win with ease. But trying to beat the two-time defending Eastern Conference champion Giants – before a full house at Yankee Stadium, no less – would be the acid test to determine if the Browns were legitimate candidates to unseat New York. 13, 1963 – BROWNS 35, NEW YORK GIANTS 24 – AT NEW YORK – The Browns won their first four games under new head coach Blanton Collier, and did it in impressive fashion, averaging 33.3 points per outing, a marked improvement from 1962 when the offense mostly struggled. With all that, then, there were a lot of significant games during the decade, and here are the ones, in chronological order, that stood out the most and thus make up the Mount Rushmore of Browns regular-season games from 1960-69: The team won 10 or more games, in a 14-game season, five times in a seven-year span under Collier, and played in the NFL Championship Game on four occasions, capturing the title in 1964 by stunning the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts 27-0. The Browns’ founding head coach, and the man for whom the team is named, Paul Brown, was unceremoniously, and shockingly, fired several weeks after the end of the 1962 season, and replaced by his top assistant coach, Blanton Collier. The 1960s were a decade of great change – and great success – for the Browns. ![]() Our 2020 schedule » #WinItTogether /1vPeyHQ58F- Cleveland Browns May 7, 2020 We don’t know what will happen in those games, but we will take a look back at the matchups in the 60s and keep an eye on the betting odds makers for this coming season. The Browns are slated to take on the Giants, Cowboys and Colts in 2020. Today we look at regular-season games from 1960-69. Browns cut Giants, Cowboys and Colts down to sizeĮDITOR’S NOTE: This is the 10th in a series of stories about the Mount Rushmore-worthy people, places and things in Browns history. ![]()
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