The first time the Detroit Lions got their hands on the ball, they pushed all the way to the Cleveland Browns' 23-yd. line. Then Jungle Jim Martin came in and casually kicked a field goal. The Lions had used up just eleven plays and already they were out three points in front in the fight for the National Football League Championship.
Tired from a tough season that took them all the way through an extra-game play-off with the San Francisco Forty Niners, and lacking their first-string signal caller, Bobby Layne, out because of an earlier mauling from the Browns, the Lions had...
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