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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.332092
EAN num: 9781572437258
ISBN number: 1572437251
Label: Triumph Books
Manufacturer: Triumph Books
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Page Count: 256
Printing Date: September 01, 2008
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Paul Brown: The Man Who Invented Modern Football is the very first full-length biography of the legendary head coach of the Cleveland Browns. While working his way from high school coach to Pro Football Hall of Famer, Brown set forth a blueprint for the modern game. As the very first coach to, among many other accomplishments, scout opponents through game films, call plays from the sideline, and systemize the college draft, Brown finessed the sport into a more precise science. His teams rarely disappointed, and he created a winning dynasty in Cleveland, coaching the Browns to three NFL championships and four AAFC titles. Based on extensive research and original interviews with former player and others, this book examines in absorbing detail Paul Brown's profound influence on the game.
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The influence Paul Brown continues to have on pro football is enormous, though he passed away in 1991 at the age of 82.
In one of two recently published biographies on "the father of the modern offense," author George Cantor weaves his material around 10 famous games that Brown coached; two each for Massillon Washington High School and the Ohio State University, five for the Cleveland Browns and the famous 1970 contest when the Cincinnati Bengals edged the Browns, 30-27.
Cantor pounds hard like a fullback on the incredible coaching record Brown, which came to prominence with Massillon, taking the helm in 1932 at age 23 and eventually capturing by polls six-consecutive state titles, while amassing a record of 80-8-2 in nine years.
From 1941-1943 at Ohio State, Brown was on the verge of creating a collegiate dynasty, winning the 1942 national championship and leading the Buckeyes to a three-year record of 18-8-1. After coaching the Great Lakes Naval Station Blue Jackets for two years came the foundation to a remarkable 17 years with the Browns.
Though Brown was the "coach in absentee" with Ohio State, he ultimately became part-owner, head coach, vice president and general manager of Cleveland's franchise in the All-America Football Conference. The club garnered its nickname either from heavyweight champion Joe Louis - shortened from a suggestion of the Brown Bombers - or to honor Brown.
The Browns won all four championships in the AAFC, before the league merged with the National Football League, where the team won three titles. Among the innovations Brown introduced to the game during these years were the creation of what is now known as the "West Coast" offense, compiling a game film library, teaching the game in a classroom setting, talking to his quarterbacks through a radio transmitter, using "messenger" guards to relay plays to the offensive huddle, emphasizing safety through the use of face masks on helmets and having a reserve squad (known as a "Taxi squad," because the players drove cabs for co-owner Arthur McBride's Cleveland taxi company).
Special focus is on January 9, 1963, when Brown was fired by Browns majority owner Art Modell, which was done during a Cleveland newspaper strike. A tenuous relationship during the early years of Modell's ownership, the partnership permanently fractured over running back Ernie Davis, the sensational 1961 Heisman Trophy winner who was a member of the team, but never played due to suffering from leukemia and losing his battle with the disease on May 18, 1963.
Brown refused to play Davis when the cancer was in a brief remission. Depending on the story, this controversial chapter of team history, Modell wanted Davis to only make a brief appearance in a game to honor the player's wish or the majority owner was looking to cash in on his substantial investment in a player who was never going to recover from the disease.
The five years away from the game found Brown laying the foundation for an expansion team in the American Football League. The Cincinnati Bengals became a reality during a September 26, 1967, announcement by Brown, who would be the club's principal owner, general manager and head coach. After Bengals-Browns contest chronicled by Cantor, Brown refused to shake the hand of Cleveland head coach Blanton Collier. Brown felt betrayed that Collier - once an assistant coach for Brown - had taken the helm after the firing.
Brown stepped down as head coach on January 1, 1976, to become team president. Cantor writes that New England head coach Bill Belichick said, "So many things we do today...were the same things Paul Brown did.
.....And it's very, very much the blueprint for the way the game is played today."
In 1967, Brown was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, and two stadiums bear his name: Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon, and Paul Brown Stadium, in Cincinnati. The players and assistant coaches who later became pro or college head coaches include Bill Walsh, Weeb Ewbank, Chuck Noll, Don Shula, Ara Parseghian and Lou Saban.
But time in this fast-paced age of information and news may be an opponent that Brown cannot defeat. Cantor writes: "It's pretty hard to forget a man for whom a football team and two stadiums are named. But the world tries its best. In most Internet polls, for example, you will usually find (Vince) Lombardi listed at number one. There will also be Bill Walsh, Chuck Noll, and Don Shula."
No matter the verbiage that is spilled out by those allegedly in the know, Cantor shows that the greatest pro head coach left a legacy as a teacher, innovator and administrator....Paul Brown.
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Under "Product Description" the following is stated..."The Man Who Invented Modern Football" is the very first full-length biography of the legendary coach of the Cleveland Browns." This book was published September 1, 2008.
I just finished reading "Paul Brown: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Football's Most Innovative Coach" by Andrew O'Toole. This book was published July 28, 2008. It covers Paul Brown's life from birth to death, and everything in between. It is over 400 pages. I'm not sure how George Cantor's book published after Andrew O'Toole's can be called "the very first full-length biorgaphy".
Maybe a little fact checking is necessary.
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