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ter. Plum played the rest Of
the game on one good leg after
aggravating a pulled muscle
that slowed him to q jog.
After the game. the Asso-
ciated Press said O'Connell re-
vealed to Cleveland reporters
that his left leg had been frac-
tured just below the knee early
In December against the Chi
cago Cardinals. With rest and
treatment. however. he was
able to play yesterday.
O'Connell took the team 7S
yards to its first touchdown
early in the second period. and
Plum guided it 80 to the second
score in the third quarter. But
the Lions bounced back each
time to keep their discouraged
rivals at arms-length.
Out for Revenge
II was plain from the start
that Detroit was out to avenge
that 56-l0 shellacking 1t suf-
fered at the Browns hands in
the 1854 title game. The Lions
were firing away at the finish.
posting the eighth and final
touchdown with little more
than two minutes remaining.
The Lions could do no wrong
and the Browns seemingly did
nothing right. With Bobby
Layne. Detroit's long time No.
] quarterback. watching on
crutches from the sideline. the
Lions scored on Jim Martins
3l-yard field goal the first time
they got the ball. and by half
time had a commanding 3l-7
advantage.
Tobin Rote. a refugee from.
the last-place Green Bay Pack
ers who came to Detroit in a
preseason trade. spanked the
attack. completing IL of 19
passes for 280 yards and four
touchdowns-one short Of Sid
Luckman's l4-year-old record
for a championship game. The
tall Texan. who had planned TO
retire from football before be-
ing lured back by his transfer
to Detroit. also scored a touch
down himself to cap a red
letter day.
Konz Defensive Victim
Rote picked on Kenny Konz,
Cleveland defensive safety
man. for four touchdowns.
heaping insult on injury by
taxing him out Of position mid
way in the second quarter on a
fake field goal to lob a 26-yard
scoring pass to Steve Junker,
husky rookie from Xavier. The
game was almost over and a
Detroit victory assured, how
ever. before Brown replaced
Konz with Bob Freeman. And
Freeman was the victim Of the
last scoring pass. which Jerry
Reichow, substitute quarter
back, pegged to Dave Middle
ton.
Don Colo. whose alleged re-
mark about Layne in the regu-
lar league game between the
Browns and Lions helped fire a
Detroit victory, seemed to be
Rote's pet target in the first
quarter when it appeared that
the Lions would rely more on
their ground forces than Rote's
tosses.
But Rote's passes to Jim
Doran and Junker helped move
the ball 66 yards to the Cleve-
land %, where the attack fizzled
and Martin was called on for
his three-pointer.
Three plays after the ensuing
kickoff, Bob Long latched onto
the first OF five Cleveland passes
grabbed by the Lions TO set up
his teams first touchdown, and
the panic was on. Long re-
turned II yards to the Browns
10. Hopalong Cassidy got a
yard at tackle and Rote made
IL the rest Of the way on two
keeper plays. the first good for
II yards.
Fumble Sets Up Score
Milt Campbell's tumble with
the following kickoff. recovered
~ Terry Barr on the Cleye-
land IS, paved the way for De-
troit's second touchdown. A 49,
yard pass TO Junker put the
ball on the 2-yard line, but two
plays failed TO gain before Lou
Creekmur blasted a hole
through tackle for Gene Ged-
man.
Clevels5d got on the board
10 seconds after the start Of the,