Английская Википедия:1966 Cleveland Browns season

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox NFL team season The 1966 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 17th season with the National Football League. They finished just 9–5, their worst record since 1962, and failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 1963.

Season summary

Save for a devastating 16–6 upset loss to a Pittsburgh Steelers team that would finish just 5–8–1, the Browns offense scored points in bunches. In later years, Browns players from that era said the 1966 team had the best offense—even better than the one in 1964, when the club won the NFL championship—and there's evidence to support that contention. The flurry of points started in the opener when the Browns blew out the Washington Redskins 38–14. It continued in a stretch of five straight games in which they lost 34–28 to the St. Louis Cardinals, beat the New York Giants 28–7, routed the Steelers 41–10, turned back the Dallas Cowboys 30–21 and crushed the expansion Atlanta Falcons 49–17.

Then, as they were finishing the season, the Browns outscored the Giants 49–40 and walloped the Cardinals 38–10.

The Browns scored 403 points in all, averaging a healthy 28.8 per contest. Even in the game that eventually did in their playoff chances—a 33–21 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the next-to-last week—they were able to score a decent number of points. Quarterback Frank Ryan was as good – or better – than he was in any of his previous three seasons as the full-time starter, including 1964, when he helped lead the Browns to the NFL championship. He threw for a career-high 2,974 yards and had better than a 2-to-1 ratio of touchdown passes (29) to interceptions (14). He also posted his second-best quarterback rating at 88.2.

NFL draft

The following were selected in the 1966 NFL Draft.

Round	Overall	Player	Position	School/Club Team
1	14	Milt Morin	Tight End	Massachusetts
2	29	Rick Norton	Quarterback	Kentucky
4	61	Pete Duranko	Defensive End	Notre Dame
5	74	Randy Schultz	Running Back	Northern Iowa
5	78	Dan Fulford	End	Auburn
6	90	Jim Battle	Tackle	Saginaw Valley
6	93	Fred Hoaglin	Center	Pittsburgh
7	109	Leroy Carter	Flanker	Grambling
8	123	Tom Talaga	End	Notre Dame
9	139	Jack Gregory	Defensive End	Delta St.
10	153	Monte Ledbetter	Wide Receiver	Northwestern St. (LA)
11	169	Tony Fire	Tackle	Bowling Green
11	183	Rich Czap	Tackle	Nebraska
13	199	Jim Boudreaux	Tackle	Louisiana Tech
14	213	Pete Lammons	Tight End	Texas
15	229	Bob Ellis	Defensive End	Massachusetts
16	243	David Ray	Kicker	Alabama
17	259	Gene Modzelewski	Tackle	New Mexico St.
18	273	Charley Harraway	Running Back	San Jose St.
19	289	Karl Singer	Tackle	Purdue
20	303	Joe Petro	Defensive Back	Temple

Exhibition schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Attendance
1	August 6	at Los Angeles Rams	L 6–16	63,285
2	August 14	at San Francisco 49ers	W 28–17	27,867
3	August 20	at Atlanta Falcons	W 42–3	48,548
4	August 26	Baltimore Colts	L 17–24	83,418
5	September 3	vs. Pittsburgh Steelers   (at Birmingham)	W 13–10	23,590

There was a doubleheader on August 26, 1966 Redskins vs Vikings and Colts vs Browns.

Regular season schedule

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Record	Attendance
1	September 11	at Washington Redskins	W 38–14	1–0	48,643
2	September 18	Green Bay Packers	L 20–21	1–1	83,943
3	September 25	St. Louis Cardinals	L 28–34	1–2	74,814
4	October 2	at New York Giants	W 28–7	2–2	62,916
5	October 8	Pittsburgh Steelers	W 41–10	3–2	82,687
6	October 16	Bye
7	October 23	Dallas Cowboys	W 30–21	4–2	84,721
8	October 30	at Atlanta Falcons	W 49–17	5–2	57,235
9	November 6	at Pittsburgh Steelers	L 6–16	5–3	39,690
10	November 13	Philadelphia Eagles	W 27–7	6–3	77,698
11	November 20	Washington Redskins	W 14–3	7–3	78,466
12	November 24	at Dallas Cowboys	L 14–26	7–4	75,504
13	December 4	New York Giants	W 49–40	8–4	61,651
14	December 11	at Philadelphia Eagles	L 21–33	8–5	58,074
15	December 17	at St. Louis Cardinals	W 38–10	9–5	47,721

• A bye week was necessary in Шаблон:Nfly, as the league expanded to an odd-number (15) of teams (Atlanta); one team was idle each week.

Game summaries

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Personnel

Staff/coaches

1966 Cleveland Browns staff
	Front office Majority owner/CEO & president – Art Modell Minority owner – Al Lerner General manager – Harold Sauerbrei Coaches Head coach – Blanton Collier Offensive coaches Quarterbacks/Running Backs - Dub Jones Offensive guards – Fritz Heisler Offensive tackles – Ed Ulinski Offensive backfield and ends – Bob Nussbaumer			Defensive coaches Defensive line – Nick Skorich Linebackers – Ed Ulinski Strength & conditioning Athletic Trainer - Leo Murphy Equipment Manager - Morris Kono

External links

• 1966 Cleveland Browns at Pro Football Reference
• 1966 Cleveland Browns Statistics at jt-sw.com
• 1966 Cleveland Browns Schedule at jt-sw.com
• 1966 Cleveland Browns at DatabaseFootball.com
• Season summary and stats at Cleveland Browns.com