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1953 NFL season
The 1953 NFL season was the 34th regular season of the National Football League. The names of the American and National divisions were changed back to the Eastern and Western divisions.
The season ended on December 27 with the NFL Championship Game in which the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns for the second year in a row.
The 1953 NFL draft was held on January 22, 1953, at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. With the first pick, the San Francisco 49ers selected defensive end Harry Babcock from Georgia.
The definition of illegal motion was clarified so that a player moving directly forward at the snap was to be considered illegally in motion.
A Baltimore, Maryland, group headed by Carroll Rosenbloom was granted an NFL expansion team and was given the roster & assets of the defunct Dallas Texans organization. The new expansion team was named the Baltimore Colts, after the unrelated original Baltimore Colts team that folded after the 1950 season. While the original Colts franchise used a green and silver color scheme, the new Colts franchise chose the blue and white color scheme used by the Texans.
The 12 teams of this NFL season continued for the rest of the decade of the 1950s. These would become known as "old-line" teams as they predated the 1960 launch of the American Football League (AFL).
For 1953, the former American and National Divisions of the previous three seasons were renamed back to the Eastern and Western Divisions, respectively. The Western race saw the Rams beat the Lions twice, in Detroit (October 18) and in L.A. (November 1), and at the midway point in Week Six, the Rams were a full game ahead in the race. In Week Seven (November 8), the 49ers beat the Rams 31–27, and the Lions won their game, to put all three teams at 5–2–0. In Week Eight, the Lions beat Green Bay 14–7, while the Rams were tied 24–24 by the Cards, and the 49ers lost 23–21 to the Browns. As both teams won their remaining games, San Francisco was always a game behind Detroit.
In the Eastern, the Cleveland Browns won their first eleven games and led wire-to-wire, clinching a playoff spot by week 10. Their shot at a 12–0–0 regular season was spoiled by a 42–27 loss in the finale on December 13, and tarnished further by the championship game loss to the Lions two weeks later.
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1953 NFL season
The 1953 NFL season was the 34th regular season of the National Football League. The names of the American and National divisions were changed back to the Eastern and Western divisions.
The season ended on December 27 with the NFL Championship Game in which the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns for the second year in a row.
The 1953 NFL draft was held on January 22, 1953, at Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. With the first pick, the San Francisco 49ers selected defensive end Harry Babcock from Georgia.
The definition of illegal motion was clarified so that a player moving directly forward at the snap was to be considered illegally in motion.
A Baltimore, Maryland, group headed by Carroll Rosenbloom was granted an NFL expansion team and was given the roster & assets of the defunct Dallas Texans organization. The new expansion team was named the Baltimore Colts, after the unrelated original Baltimore Colts team that folded after the 1950 season. While the original Colts franchise used a green and silver color scheme, the new Colts franchise chose the blue and white color scheme used by the Texans.
The 12 teams of this NFL season continued for the rest of the decade of the 1950s. These would become known as "old-line" teams as they predated the 1960 launch of the American Football League (AFL).
For 1953, the former American and National Divisions of the previous three seasons were renamed back to the Eastern and Western Divisions, respectively. The Western race saw the Rams beat the Lions twice, in Detroit (October 18) and in L.A. (November 1), and at the midway point in Week Six, the Rams were a full game ahead in the race. In Week Seven (November 8), the 49ers beat the Rams 31–27, and the Lions won their game, to put all three teams at 5–2–0. In Week Eight, the Lions beat Green Bay 14–7, while the Rams were tied 24–24 by the Cards, and the 49ers lost 23–21 to the Browns. As both teams won their remaining games, San Francisco was always a game behind Detroit.
In the Eastern, the Cleveland Browns won their first eleven games and led wire-to-wire, clinching a playoff spot by week 10. Their shot at a 12–0–0 regular season was spoiled by a 42–27 loss in the finale on December 13, and tarnished further by the championship game loss to the Lions two weeks later.