1953 Cleveland Browns season

1953 Cleveland Browns season
1953 Cleveland Browns season
Head coach	Paul Brown
Home stadium	Cleveland Stadium
Results
Record	11–1
Division place	1st Eastern
Playoffs	Lost NFL Championship; (at Lions) 16–17
All-Pros	8 DE Len Ford (1st team); QB Otto Graham (1st team); E Dante Lavelli (1st team); T Lou Groza (1st team); C Frank Gatski (1st team); G Bill Willis (1st team); LB Tommy Thompson (1st team); CB Warren Lahr (2nd team);
Pro Bowlers	Ray Renfro, F; Tommy James, DB; Chick Jagade, FB; Warren Lahr, CB; Lou Groza, LT; Otto Graham, QB; Len Ford, DE; Abe Gibron, G; Dante Lavelli, E

The 1953 Cleveland Browns season was the team's fourth season with the National Football League. Their start of eleven wins before losing their last game was the closest to a true perfect season in the NFL until the 1972 Miami Dolphins. After that fifteen-point loss at Philadelphia, the Browns met the Detroit Lions in the NFL Championship Game for the second straight year; the Lions won again, this time by a point at home.

This was the second of two NFL seasons that coach Paul Brown would win eleven games. It would be seventy years before another (Kevin Stefanski) would win eleven games in two seasons coaching the Browns, by which time the NFL regular season schedule had expanded from twelve to seventeen games.