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

My dad was at this game.

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

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.

I love looking at that roster.

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.

^^^^ Great stories!

Jim Bakken......hadn't heard nor thought about him in a long time.

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

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

Ryan to Collins .... Touchdown!!!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Salto....closin' it down!

ha ha!

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

You drive a tow truck in Athens???

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

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".

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.