1957 NFL Championship Game

1957 NFL Championship Game

Cleveland Browns	Detroit Lions
14	59

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cleveland Browns	0	7	7	0	14
Detroit Lions	17	14	14	14	59

Date

December 29, 1957

Stadium

Briggs Stadium

City

Detroit, MI

Referee

Ron Gibbs

Attendance

55,263

TV/Radio in the United States

TV Network

NBC

TV Announcers

Van Patrick, Ken Coleman, Red Grange

Radio Network

NBC

Radio Announcers

Ray Scott, Bill McColgan

Timeline

Previous game	Next game
1956	1958

The 1957 National Football League championship game was the 25th annual championship game. The NFL title game was held on December 29, 1957 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Michigan. The game was the fourth pairing of the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns in the championship game. The Lions beat the Browns in 3 of those 4 title games and have not appeared in or won a championship game (including the Super Bowl) since.

The Browns had won the Eastern Conference with a record of 9-2-1 while the Lions had to play a playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers in the previous week.

Game summary[]

While the Lions were without injured starting quarterback Bobby Layne, backup QB Tobin Rote filled in admirably, throwing four touchdown passes, completing 12 of 19 passes for 280 yards, and running in for another touchdown.^[1]

Detroit Lions 59, Cleveland Browns 14[]

Scoring

DET - FG Martin 31 3-0 DET
DET - Rote 1 yard run (Martin kick) 10-0 DET
DET - Gedman 1 yard run (Martin kick) 17-0 DET
CLE - Brown 29 yard run (Groza kick) 17-7 DET
DET - Junker 26 yard pass from Rote (Martin kick) 24-7 DET
DET - Barr 19 yard interception (Martin kick) 31-7 DET
CLE - Carpenter 5 yard run (Groza kick) 31-14 DET
DET - Doran 78 yard pass from Rote (Martin kick) 38-14 DET
DET - Junker 23 yard pass from Rote (Martin kick) 45-14 DET
DET - Middleton 32 yard pass from Rote (Martin kick) 52-14 DET
DET Cassady yard pass from Reichow (Martin kick) 59-14 DET

References[]

↑ Chuck Heaton, Lions Crush Browns, 59-14, Cleveland Plain Dealer December 29, 1957, Plain Dealer Browns' History Database Accessed 12 December 2007, http://www.cleveland.com/brownshistory/plaindealer/index.ssf?/browns/more/history/19571229BROWNS.html

Preceded by 1956 NFL Championship Game	NFL Championship Game 1957	Succeeded by 1958 NFL Championship Game

Detroit Lions 1957 NFL Champions

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