Obscure sports trivia

In a technical sense, the 1948 Cleveland Browns, who are an NFL franchise, went 14-0 and won their championship, albeit in the AAFC.

Playing on that team were two future head coaches at Northwestern. Who were they?

 

Young is on the list.
So is Rob Deer.

The final list is as follows.

1992--Rob Deer 32 HR 64 RBI
1964--Felix Mantilla 30 HR 64 RBI
2008--Hanley Ramirez 33 HR 67 RBI
2004--Brad Wilkerson 32 HR 67 RBI
2007--Chris Young 32 HR 68 RBI
1987--Brook Jacoby 32 HR 69 RBI

 

Saban has to be one. (Lou, not Nick)

 

Yep. He's one.

 

It's Johnny Sain; 1948 Boston Braves, 1951-53 Yankees in the Series. A fine pitcher in his era (139-116), but probably far more renowned among those inside baseball for his career as a pitching coach in the years following his retirement. The number of pitchers he helped, and who considered him the smartest man in baseball when it came to pitching, is impressive.

And again, only 20 strikeouts in 857 plate appearances for anyone, much less a pitcher, is incredible. Maybe he should have taught hitting too. I had to look it up when I read it, because I thought perhaps it was just another old guy whose memory wasn't quite accurate. One of the Ks came at the hands of Satchell Page.

 

Yes - the Browns was the answer I was going for.

 

Otto Graham was one, no?

Akron Pros, 8-0-3 in 1920, Canton Bulldogs 10-0-2 in 1922 and 11-0-1 in 1923, and Green Bay Packers, 12-0-1 in 1929, all finished seasons undefeated.

 

Nope. Graham played for Northwestern. He was a head coach for the Coast Guard and for the now-Washington Football Team.

 

Aaaargh! My first reaction was he was coach of Northwestern (because I knew he'd played there). Then I rethought it and looked it up. I just didn't delete it!

 

Since it’s been a while, the other member of the 1948 Cleveland Browns to become head coach as Northwestern was Ara Parseghian, who had a successful run there before joining Notre Dame.

 

Yeah, I found it last night by accident (looking up Notre Dame’s winningest coaches when I saw that Kelly was closing in on the too spot). Didn’t want to spoil it.

 

Not a question, just a cool stat I saw this morning.

The Los Angeles Angels/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels have a record of 4735-4753 (.499) over 60 seasons from 1961-2020.