Paul Brown – The Massillon Years

The Cleveland Browns have won eight pro football championships. Only the Green Bay Packers (13) and the Chicago Bears (9) have captured more titles.

Seven of the Browns championship rings were at the hands of a single head coach: Paul Brown.

But before he became a Hall of Fame coach with Cleveland, he was the head coach at Ohio State where his squad won a National Championship; and during World War II he was the coach of the Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets where his team went 9-2-1 and defeated college football teams such as Notre Dame, Northwestern, Illinois and Wisconsin.

However, Cleveland, Ohio State and Great Lakes is not where Coach Brown honed his football coaching skills. That aspect was…