The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

Len Ford, who the Browns picked up from the defunct AAFC Los Angeles Dons team, emerged as a force on the defensive line, making the Pro Bowl each year between 1951 and 1953.

During the summer before the 1953 season, the Browns ' original owners sold the team for a then-unheard-of $ 600, 000.

A 6 – 3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their first ever defeat at Wembley by a team from outside of the British Isles.

The team was officially founded as the Baltimore Colts in 1953 and were based in Baltimore, Maryland until the team relocated to Indianapolis in 1984.

The Colts played their first season in Baltimore in 1953, where the team complied a 3 – 9 record under first year head coach Keith Molesworth.

In the years 1953 – 66 the Colts played in the NFL Western Conference ( also known as division ), but were never known to have a significant rivalry with any of the other franchises in that alignment, seeing as they were the eastern-most team and the rest of the division included the Great Lakes franchises Green Bay, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and after 1961, the Minnesota Vikings.

* 1953 – Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner

Milwaukee had previously been a National League city when its team was the Milwaukee Braves ( 1953 – 1965 ).

After returning home from his first overseas tour, Benaud was prolific during the 1953 – 54 Australian season, which was purely domestic with no touring Test team.

They finished the season as the 8th team in NFL history to rank # 1 in overall offense ( 395. 6 yards / game ), and overall defense ( 271. 6 yards / game ), and became only the 2nd of those teams to not make the playoffs ( 1953 Eagles 7 – 4 – 1 ).

But the Braves stayed only three seasons ( 1953 – 55 ) before moving the team to Wichita, Kansas, as the Wichita Braves.

Beckett also alludes to the comedy team specifically in his novel Watt ( 1953 ), when a healthy shrub is described at one point as " a hardy laurel.

Winterbottom presided over the 6-3 loss to Hungary in 1953, England's first home defeat to a team from mainland Europe, and also over the 7-1 defeat to the same opposition the following year: England's worst ever international result.

His other TV appearances included Down You Go, What's My Line ?, Camera One, Ken's Column, Trader Horne ( a weekly advertising magazine for the Tyne Tees region ), Let's Imagine, Call My Bluff ( as team captain ), and various specials with Richard Murdoch such as Free and Easy ( 1953 ) and Show for the Telly ( 1956 ).

Nasser was negotiating a British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and personally led the Egyptian negotiation team in March 1953.

He played on seven Ryder Cup teams: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, and 1959, and captained the team in 1951, 1959, and 1969.

Three of its teams were admitted to the NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts ( not related to the later NFL team that would play in Baltimore from 1953 through 1983, now the Indianapolis Colts ).

In 1953 – 54, the Canadiens finally landed Jean Beliveau by purchasing his team.

( The Republic of Ireland was officially included in the British team of 1973, though Irish players had competed since 1953 and Northern Irish players since 1947.

* Eufaula was home to a minor league baseball team, the Eufala Millers, in 1952 and 1953.

His baseball team went to the 1953 college baseball world series.

The Marion Marauders, a Tar Heel League baseball club, were a favorite local attraction in the 1940s and 50s, and was the home team of star pitcher Kelly Jack Swift, who in 1953 became the last minor league pitcher to ever win 30 games in a season, going 30-7 with a 2. 54 ERA.

After that season, he was traded and went on to play for the Chicago Cardinals from 1953 to 1957 and the New York Giants from 1958 to 1961, during which he was a part of The Greatest Game Ever Played.

Kiner was traded after the 1953 season, and the field was restored to its previous configuration in time for the 1954 season.

On March 26, 1953, he was traded to the Baltimore Colts in what was, at that time, the largest NFL player trade ever made, involving 15 players.

He was traded to the Red Sox in December 1953, and led the AL with 22 steals in, also finishing third in RBI ( 117 ) and fourth in home runs ( 25 ).

The wing converted to the sleek new Boeing B-47 Stratojet in 1953 and traded in its KB-29 tankers for the upgraded Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker.

The record label, which traded as Nixa Records, was acquired by Pye Records in 1953.

Pafko returned home when he was traded to the Milwaukee Braves before the start of the 1953 season, becoming the only Wisconsin native on the Braves roster when they arrived in Milwaukee and participating in their strong contending teams there, including the 1957 World Series champions.

In the spring of 1953, the Black Sheep traded their F9s for new F2H-4 Banshees, and headed for the Hawaiian Islands.

In 1953 Trucks went 5-4 for the St. Louis Browns ( AL ) before being traded to the Chicago White Sox ( AL ) where he went 15-6 for an overall season record of 20-10.

In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

In 1953 Sweet Adelines became an international organization, although it didn't change its name to Sweet Adelines International until 1991.

In 1953 the Museum celebrated its bicentenary.

American actor Jay Robinson famously portrayed a sinister and scene-stealing Caligula in two epic films of the 1950s, The Robe ( 1953 ) and its sequel Demetrius and the Gladiators ( 1954 ).

His rise to its leadership position occurred in 1957 in part because of his handling of the critical Nissan workers ' strike that began May 25, 1953, and ran for 100 days.

* 1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his " Atoms for Peace " speech, and the U. S. launches its " Atoms for Peace " program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

The Cambridge University undergraduate newspaper Varsity also ran its own short article on the discovery on Saturday 30 May 1953.

One of his most famous films noir is the police drama The Big Heat ( 1953 ), noted for its uncompromising brutality, especially for a scene in which Lee Marvin throws scalding coffee on Gloria Grahame's face.

Iran barely maintained its independence throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, being carved up into spheres of influence, invaded in 1917 and 1941, occupied between 1941 – 1946, subjected to Soviet attempts to create a separate Azerbaijan socialist republic in 1946, and having its government overthrown in 1921 and again in 1953.

Northern Rhodesia had decided earlier in 1953 ( before the Federation was founded ) to build a dam within its territory, on the Kafue River, a major tributary of the Zambezi.

Ginzberg began teaching Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary from its reorganization in 1902 until his death in 1953.

Its first election win came in 1953, with its members running as independents.

MK won its first seat at local level on the Redruth-Camborne Urban Council in 1953.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

The Special Reserve reverted to its militia designation in 1921, then to Supplementary Reserve in 1924, though the units were effectively placed in " suspended animation " until disbanded in 1953.

As well as its downstream interests, Mobil was active in the North Sea and operated an oil refinery in Coryton ( opened in 1953 ), on the Thames estuary.

Columbium ( symbol Cb ) was the name originally given to this element by Hatchett, and this name remained in use in American journals — the last paper published by American Chemical Society with columbium in its title dates from 1953 — while niobium was used in Europe.

* 1953 – Andhra Pradesh attained statehood on 1 November 1953, with Kurnool as its capital.

CBS rescinded its system in March 1953, and the FCC replaced it on December 17, 1953 with the NTSC color standard, which was cooperatively developed by several companies, including RCA and Philco.