Evening star., 1951-08-18
Browns Remain Team
To Beat, Trouncinq
OF AN-Stars Proves
BY the Asseeiated Press

out that old age was beginning tc
creep up on the Cleveland Browns
and the 1851 National Football
League season would see them
knocked from the pinnacle.
All that has been revised today
The Browns still are the team
to beat. They're a long way from
being turned out to pasture.
With the gusto and vigor Of col
Ilege kids, the amazing Browns
sandbagged the collegiate ALI
Stars, $50, last night to open the
football season officially before
92,180 fans in Soldier Field.
| An estimated so million more
saw the game on television. Gross
receipts amounted to $428.000, in
Guiding video and radio rights, fol-
the Chicago Tribune Charities
Inc.
Easy Triumph for Browns.
The Browns ridiculously easy
triumph over an inept bunch OF
graduated campus stars who never
came within IS yards of the goal
line gave the Cleveland team q
grand slam in pro football.
For four years Coach Paul
Browns marvels won the ALL
American Conference champion
ship. When the league was dis
solved. the team hooked up with
the National Football League last
year. and without fiinching in the
so-called faster company. went on
to down the Los Angeles Rams for
the crown In the December play
off.
The victory last night, &C.
complished with many of the same
players who have been with the
Browns since they were organized
six years ago. capped the streak
OF spectacular championship
sweeps.
Second Worst Defeat.
Such old men" as Otto Ora.
ham, Marion Motley, Mac Speedie
Dante Lavelli, Lou Groza, Lou
Rymkus, Bill Willis and Lin Hous-
ton-all pressing 80 or more
gave the collegians the second
worst beating ever absorbed in the
l8-year history of the series.
Only the Philadelphia Eagles
$50 blasting Of Oklahoma Coach
Bud Wilkinson's All-Star group in
1949 was more lopsided.
The pros have now won 10
games in the rivalry to six for the
collegians. Two contests were tied
I'VE have no alibis," said Her
man Hickman Of Yale, head coach
Of the All-Stars, who used IS play
ers out OF So suited up. THE
Browns are truly a great football
team. Their defense kept us
backed up into a hole all night.
Graham Completes 1S Passes.
Graham completed 1S OF 81
passes for 269 yards and two
touchdowns-14 yards to Lavelli
to cap a 42-yard surge in four
plays, and 8 yards to Emerson Cole
to end a 32-yard push in three
plays.
Dub Jones scampered los yards
in II carries. scoring on and 3
yard stabs to climax touchdown
drives Of 56 and 81 yards.
Motley, the 31-year-old fullback,
crashed rs yards in six tries.
Lavelli shared seven passes for
l48 yards and Speedie hooked nine
for lot.
While emptying their bench of
80 men, the Browns gained 425
total yards rushing and passing
to the All-Stars' 1875, and scored
in every quarter. They pushed
over 81 points in the last half.
The 1850 campus heroes never
penetrated beyond midfield until
late in the fourth quarter. Scat
back Wilford (Whizzer) White OF
Arizona State, who now will pull
on a Chicago Bears uniform,
tipped Is yards and Fran Nagle
Of Nebraska pitched Is more to
Alan Pfeifer of Fordham.
Penalties Shove ALI Stars Back.
This burst carried the All-Stars
to the Browns IS. Ensuing offside
and clipping penalties quickly
showed them back to their own IS
to end what threat might have
been brewing.
Statistics show about how vig-
orous an attack the All-Stars
could muster. Bob Williams OF
Notre Dame connected on three
out of eight passes for 90 yards
and Nagle hit two out Of six for
Is. Kyle Rote of Southern Meth
odist travelled Is yards in eight
carries. White gained 13 in II and
Sonny Gradelius OF Michigan
State made % in three.
These were the high marks. TIE
longest run was "a yards by Rote
Probably the outstanding COL
lsgiate performers were Bud Sher-
rod, a solid end from Tennessee
and Guard Bud McFadin OF
Texas.
There was a big consolation fo1
the All-Stars. Not a one was
injured, thus preserving them 10,
the pro season. Thirty-seven
players in the group had signed
NFL, contracts prior to the game