It was founded in 1946 in the old AAFC. It joined the NFL in 1950 when the AAFC folded.
the Cleveland BulldogsAnswerthe Bulldogs were Canton's football team. there was a Cleveland Bulldogs franchise at one point when a Cleveland businessman bought the Bulldogs and combined them wih the Cleveland Indians, which he already owned and changed the Indians name to the Bulldogs. but it was a separate franchise and was never in anyway connected to the Cleveland Browns. the Browns have always been called the Browns since the team was founded in 1946. However, before that, Cleveland's NFL team was the Rams, who moved to Los Angeles after the 1945 season making way for the Browns, who started in the AAFC and then were brought over to the NFL in 1950.
None. The Browns were never an American Football League team. They were in the National Football League when the merger occured in 1970. The Browns, along with the Baltimore Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers, joined the American Football Conference, which primarly consisted of the old AFL teams.
The St Louis Rams were originally founded in 1936 in Cleveland and played until 1946 when they moved to Los Angeles. Other teams that played in the old AFL and NFL of the 1920s and 1930s in Cleveland were the Indians, Tigers, Bulldogs and Panthers. Note that while the old Browns players and ownership did make a move to Baltimore, the records stayed in Cleveland and the team that moved was considered to be a new team which started play in 1996.
The Cleveland Browns were established in 1946.
Bill Willis (Ohio State) in 1946 was the first black player for the Cleveland Browns as best as memory serves me. The Browns were a dominating member of the old AAFC at the time, later joining the NFL.
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The team was named after the 1945 head coach of the team Paul Brown.
Leeds United was the last team to win the old football first division.
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43. Lou Groza retired after the 1967 season. He was born January 25, 1924.
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