More on the Browns and the Hall of Fame:
(The capital letters are for those who were primarily Browns.)
Name (year inducted) – years with Browns
Doug Atkins (1982) – 1953-1954
JIM BROWN (1971) – 1957-1965
PAUL BROWN (1967) – 1946-1962
Willie Davis (1981) – 1958-1959
Len Dawson (1987) – 1960-1961
Joe DeLamielleure (2003) – 1980-1984
LEN FORD (1976) – 1950-1957
FRANK GATSKI (1985) – 1946-1956
OTTO GRAHAM (1965) – 1946-1955
LOU GROZA (1974) – 1946-1959, 1961-1967
Henry Jordan (1995) – 1957-1958
LEROY KELLY (1994) – 1964-1973
DANTE LAVELLI (1975) – 1946-1956
MIKE McCORMACK (1984) – 1954-1962
Tommy McDonald (1998) – 1968
BOBBY MITCHELL (1983) – 1958-1961
MARION MOTLEY (1968) – 1946-1953
OZZIE NEWSOME (1999) – 1978-1990
PAUL WARFIELD (1983) – 1964-1969, 1976-1977
BILL WILLIS (1977) – 1946-1953.
Also, Chuck Noll and Don Shula played with the Browns, but they got into the
hall for their coaching. And in 1977, Forrest Gregg was enshrined as a
player while he was the Browns’ head coach.
Now wouldn’t it be nice if Clay and Bruce Matthews got inducted on the same day?