The first signings were Otto Graham, a former star quarterback at Northwestern University, and Herb Coleman, a center at Notre Dame, both of whom were then in the military.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

Meanwhile, in a November 15, 1953 game against the 49ers, Otto Graham took an elbow from linebacker Art Michalik that put a gash on his face requiring 15 stitches.

With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks.

* 2003 – Otto Graham, American football player ( b. 1921 )

* 1921 – Otto Graham, American football player ( d. 2003 )

To honor the NFL's 75th season, several former players who were named to the league's 75th Anniversary All-Time Team joined the coin toss ceremony: Otto Graham, Joe Greene, Ray Nitschke, and Gale Sayers.

In 1966 Otto Graham was hired as the new head coach.

* December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player ( died 2003 )

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

His first start would come against the AAFC's powerhouse, the Cleveland Browns, coached by Paul Brown, and a roster full of future hall of famers like Lou Groza, Bill Willis, and Otto Graham.

The team was led by Bob Davies, Al Cervi, George Glamack, and Otto Graham, a future NFL Hall of Famer, who, in his only season in professional basketball, won a league championship before moving on to football and leading the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games, winning seven.

The Royals ' twelve-year stay in Rochester featured the services of nine future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, one member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a Hollywood Walk of Famer: Al Cervi, Bob Davies, Alex Hannum, Les Harrison, Red Holzman, Arnie Risen, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Bobby Wanzer, Otto Graham, and Chuck Connors.

He averaged 8. 4 yards per attempt, second all-time only to Otto Graham ( 8. 6 ).

Daryle Lamonica went 66-16-4 as a starter, good for a 78. 4 % winning percentage, second best in NFL history ( Otto Graham is the highest at 81. 0 %).

The Buckeyes won all but one of eight games in 1941 ; the only loss was to Northwestern University and its star tailback, Otto Graham.

By the time Brown arrived in Cleveland, the team had signed a number of players to its roster, including quarterback Otto Graham, whose Northwestern squad had beaten the Buckeyes in 1941.

He invented the draw play and helped develop the modern face mask after Len Ford and Otto Graham suffered facial injuries.

" I feel he's as fine a coach as the game ever has had ," Otto Graham said at the induction ceremony.

* Otto Graham ( 1921-2003 ), professional American football and basketball player

The Browns, led by Quarterback Otto Graham, won all four of the league championship games.

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There, he joined quarterback Otto Graham, fullback Marion Motley and receivers Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie to form the core of the new team's offense.

Neurohormones were first identified by Otto Loewi in 1921.

In 1921, a Harley-Davidson, ridden by Otto Walker, was the first motorcycle ever to win a race at an average speed of over.

The presence of such a gap suggested communication via chemical messengers traversing the synaptic cleft, and in 1921 German pharmacologist Otto Loewi ( 1873 – 1961 ) confirmed that neurons can communicate by releasing chemicals.

* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).

* Otto Weber ( 1921 – 2001 ), Romanian politician

In 1921 Otto Eissfeldt, excavating in the neighbourhood of Salammbó, Carthage, discovered inscriptions with the word MLK, which in the context meant neither " king " nor the name of any god.

The Estonian Labour Party with Ants Piip headed the one-party minority government between 26 October 1920 and 25 January 1921, when Otto Strandman served as both the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Court.

Tassinari in his book states that Florio ’ s style was highly appreciated, first by his friend playwright Ben Jonson and poet, brother in law, Samuel Daniel ; then by Florio ’ s biographers Clara Longworth de Chambrun ( 1921 ), Frances Yates ( 1934 ) and critics Felix Otto Matthiessen ( 1931 ) and André Koszul ( 1931 ).

Work did not resume until 1921, when the Austrian paleontologist, Otto Zdansky, fresh with his doctoral degree from Vienna, came to Beijing to work for Andersson.

* October: Johan Gunnar Andersson announces the discovery of two human molars amongst the material excavated from the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China by his assistant Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923

* Otto Warburg: ( 1911 – 1921 )

The Peking Man Site was discovered by Johan Gunnar Andersson in 1921 and was first excavated by Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923 unearthing two human teeth.

Excavations were undertaken by Andersson's assistant Austrian palaeontologist Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923 unearthing a great deal of material that was sent back to Uppsala University in Sweden for further analysis.

* 14 September 1921 < span style =" color: brown "> Hitler and SA disrupt speech by Otto Ballestedt of the Bayernbund ; beaten badly ; Hitler with others arrested .</ span >

It was in November 1921 that he and Otto Stern discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field, known as the Stern-Gerlach effect.

Otto Friedrich von Gierke ( 11 January 1841 – October 10, 1921 ) was a German historian.

His maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld ( 1847 – 1921 ), a friend of Wilhelm II, whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes Gräfin zu Eulenburg ( 1886 – 1967 ) married 1909 ( div 1921 ) professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye ( 1879 – 1959 ), and had issue, including two daughters.

So it came that Otto's car was finally stopped and the strip moved to a garage where Otto and his second banana Clem traded jibes as fumbling mechanics ... Otto Auto continued in this vein until February 6, 1921, when the strip was replaced by Crazy Quilt.

Herberger played three times for the German football team between 1921 and 1925 before becoming assistant to Dr. Otto Nerz in 1932.