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1948 Cleveland Browns Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 14-0-0, 1st in AAFC West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Paul Brown (14-0-0)

Points For: 389 (27.8/g) 2nd of 8

Points Against: 190 (13.6/g) 1st of 8

Expected W-L: 11.8-2.2

SRS: 12.44 (2nd of 8), SOS: -1.78

Playoffs:
Won Championship 49-7 vs. Buffalo Bills

Other Notable Asst.: Blanton Collier (Backfield Coach) and Bill Edwards (Tackles)

Stadium: Cleveland Municipal Stadium

Principal Owner: Arthur McBride

Head Coach/General Manager: Paul Brown

Training Camp: Bowling Green State (Bowling Green, Ohio)

1948 AAFC Champion

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Team Stats and Rankings

Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	389	5366	916	5.9	27	11	243	178	344	2809	26	16	7.6	104	544	2557	25	4.7	123	77	761	16
Opp. Stats	190	3616	811	4.5	40	16	171	159	354	2097	14	24	5.6	74	436	1519	10	3.5	84	76	657	13
Lg Rank Offense	2	3			1	1	1		4	2	2	3	2		2	3	3	3
Lg Rank Defense	1	1			4	4	1		5	2	1	4	1		1	1	1	1

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO
2	Fri	September 3		boxscore	W		1-0		Los Angeles Dons	19	14	14	263	122	141	3	15	214	145	69	4
3	Sun	September 12		boxscore	W		2-0	@	Buffalo Bills	42	13	21	504	236	268	1	13	236	20	216
4	Fri	September 17		boxscore	W		3-0	@	Chicago Rockets	28	7	16	299	157	142	3	12	236	117	119	6
5	Sun	September 26		boxscore	W		4-0		Chicago Rockets	21	10	14	318	192	126	1	9	176	131	45	3
6	Tue	October 5		boxscore	W		5-0	@	Baltimore Colts	14	10	13	291	63	228	1	8	233	146	87	2
7	Sun	October 10		boxscore	W		6-0		Brooklyn Dodgers	30	17	23	425	163	262	2	15	259	165	94	4
8	Sun	October 17		boxscore	W		7-0		Buffalo Bills	31	14	21	421	212	209	2	14	328	246	82	2
9	Sun	October 24		boxscore	W		8-0		New York Yankees	35	7	18	461	312	149	4	10	214	107	107	2
11	Sun	November 7		boxscore	W		9-0		Baltimore Colts	28	7	23	381	191	190	2	15	267	178	89	1
12	Sun	November 14		boxscore	W		10-0		San Francisco 49ers	14	7	20	291	112	179	2	11	177	24	153	6
13	Sun	November 21		boxscore	W		11-0	@	New York Yankees	34	21	10	323	190	133	1	12	236	98	138	3
14	Thu	November 25		boxscore	W		12-0	@	Los Angeles Dons	31	14	18	371	215	156		12	205	94	111	1
14	Sun	November 28		boxscore	W		13-0	@	San Francisco 49ers	31	28	12	360	234	126	2	11	279	107	172	4
15	Sun	December 5		boxscore	W		14-0	@	Brooklyn Dodgers	31	21	20	405	159	246	3	14	408	371	37	2
		Playoffs
Championship	Sun	December 19		boxscore	W		15-0		Buffalo Bills	49	7	20	333	118	215	4	13	167	104	63	8

Passing

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Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Otto Graham	27	QB	14	14	173	333	52.0	2713	25	7.5	15	4.5	78	8.1	7.62	15.7	193.8	85.6	25	212	6.98	6.99	6.50	0	0	AP-1
2	Cliff Lewis	25		14	0	4	8	50.0	69	1	12.5	0	0.0		8.6	11.13	17.3	4.9	119.3	2	20	20.00	4.90	6.90	0	0
3	George Terlep	25		9	0	1	2	50.0	27	0	0.0	1	50.0	27	13.5	-9.00	27.0	3.0	56.2						0	0
4	Tommy James	25		14	0	0	0		0	0		0						0.0		1	19	100.00	-19.00	-19.00	0	0
5	Marion Motley	28	FB	14	14	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6						0	0	AP-1
	Team Totals			14	14	178	344	51.7	2809	26	7.6	16	4.7	78	8.9	7.58	17.2	200.6	88.1		251

Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Otto Graham	27	QB	1	1	1-0-0	11	24	45.8	118	1	4.2	1	4.2	19	4.9	3.88	10.7	118.0	57.3	1	9	4.00	4.36	3.36	0	0
2	Edgar Jones	28	LH	1	1		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	1-0-0	11	26	42.3	118	1	3.8	1	3.8	50	4.5	3.58	10.7	118.0	53.0		0

Rushing & Receiving

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing							Receiving							Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Marion Motley	28	FB	14	14	157	964	5		6.1	68.9	11.2	13	192	14.8	2	78	0.9	13.7	170	6.8	1156	7	0	AP-1
2	Mac Speedie	28	LE	12	11	1	7	0	7	7.0	0.6	0.1	58	816	14.1	4	56	4.8	68.0	59	13.9	823	4	0	AP-1
3	Edgar Jones	28	LH	13	9	100	400	5		4.0	30.8	7.7	14	293	20.9	5		1.1	22.5	114	6.1	693	10	0
4	Bill Boedeker	24		14	3	78	254	3		3.3	18.1	5.6	13	237	18.2	2		0.9	16.9	91	5.4	491	5	0
5	Dante Lavelli	25	RE	8	7	1	9	0	9	9.0	1.1	0.1	25	463	18.5	5	54	3.1	57.9	26	18.2	472	5	0
6	Bob Cowan	25	RH	14	11	33	99	1		3.0	7.1	2.4	15	265	17.7	4		1.1	18.9	48	7.6	364	5	0
7	Horace Gillom	27	RE	13	8	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	20	295	14.8	1		1.5	22.7	20	14.8	295	1	0
8	Dub Jones	24		12	2	33	149	1		4.5	12.4	2.8	9	119	13.2	2		0.8	9.9	42	6.4	268	3	0
9	Ara Parseghian	25		12	1	32	135	1		4.2	11.3	2.7	2	31	15.5	1		0.2	2.6	34	4.9	166	2	0
10	Otto Graham	27	QB	14	14	23	146	6		6.3	10.4	1.6	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	23	6.3	146	6	0	AP-1
11	Ollie Cline	23		11	0	29	129	0		4.4	11.7	2.6	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	29	4.4	129	0	0
12	Tony Adamle	24	/	14	0	17	88	1		5.2	6.3	1.2	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	17	5.2	88	1	0
13	Tom Colella	30		13	2	14	60	1		4.3	4.6	1.1	1	7	7.0	0	7	0.1	0.5	15	4.5	67	1	0
14	Dean Sensanbaugher	23		11	0	18	59	1		3.3	5.4	1.6	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	18	3.3	59	1	0
15	Tommy James	25		14	0	1	8	0	8	8.0	0.6	0.1	1	44	44.0	0	44	0.1	3.1	2	26.0	52	0	0
16	Cliff Lewis	25		14	0	5	44	0		8.8	3.1	0.4	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	5	8.8	44	0	0
17	John Yonakor	27		14	2	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	5	27	5.4	0		0.4	1.9	5	5.4	27	0	0
18	George Young	24		14	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	2	20	10.0	0		0.1	1.4	2	10.0	20	0	0
19	George Terlep	25		9	0	1	4	0		4.0	0.4	0.1	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	4.0	4	0	0
20	Bob Gaudio	23	RG	13	12	1	2	0	2	2.0	0.2	0.1	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	2.0	2	0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	544	2557	25	9	4.7	182.6	38.9	178	2809	15.8	26	78	12.7	200.6	722	7.4	5366	51	25

Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing							Receiving							Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Marion Motley	28	FB	1	1	14	133	3	31	9.5	133.0	14.0	1	13	13.0	0	13	1.0	13.0	15	9.7	146	3	0
2	Edgar Jones	28	LH	1	1	8	29	1	9	3.6	29.0	8.0	3	39	13.0	1	19	3.0	39.0	11	6.2	68	2	0
3	Dub Jones	24		1	1	5	22	0	6	4.4	22.0	5.0	2	13	6.5	0	10	2.0	13.0	7	5.0	35	0	0
4	Mac Speedie	28	LE	1	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	2	22	11.0	0	15	2.0	22.0	2	11.0	22	0	0
5	Ollie Cline	23		1	0	1	20	0	20	20.0	20.0	1.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	20.0	20	0	0
6	Dante Lavelli	25	RE	1	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	2	16	8.0	0	9	2.0	16.0	2	8.0	16	0	0
7	Horace Gillom	27	RE	1	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	15	15.0	0	15	1.0	15.0	1	15.0	15	0	0
8	Ara Parseghian	25		1	0	4	14	0	5	3.5	14.0	4.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	4	3.5	14	0	0
9	Dean Sensanbaugher	23		1	0	2	2	0	2	1.0	2.0	2.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	1.0	2	0	0
10	Tom Colella	30		1	0	1	1	0	1	1.0	1.0	1.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	1.0	1	0	0
11	Otto Graham	27	QB	1	1	1	0	0		0.0	0.0	1.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	0.0	0	0	0
12	Tony Adamle	24	/	1	0	2	-1	0		-0.5	-1.0	2.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	-0.5	-1	0	0
13	George Terlep	25		1	0	2	-5	0		-2.5	-5.0	2.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	-2.5	-5	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	40	215	4	15	5.4	215.0	40.0	11	118	10.7	1	19	11.0	118.0	51	6.5	333	5	6

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Defense & Fumbles

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						Def Interceptions				Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Sfty	Awards
1	Otto Graham	27	QB	14	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	AP-1
2	Tom Colella	30		13	2	2	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	John Yonakor	27		14	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
4	Ara Parseghian	25		12	1	1	56	0	56	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	Weldon Humble	27		13	0	1	11	0	11	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	Tommy James	25		14	0	4	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	Cliff Lewis	25		14	0	9	103	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	Lou Saban	27		14	0	5	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	24	0	0		25	14	0	0	21	1

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions					Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	PD	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Sfty	Awards
1	Lou Rymkus	29	RT	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
2	Tony Adamle	24	/	1	0	1	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
3	Tom Colella	30		1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
4	Tommy James	25		1	0	2	36	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
5	Lou Saban	27		1	0	1	39	1	39	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
6	George Young	24		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1						6	0	0	1			0

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