MASSILLON – "Paul Brown is a football legend," says an online overview of the Paul Brown Museum at Massillon Museum. "He started teams, revitalized others and broke records. He also invented much of what we take for granted in football."

As a high school football coach in Ohio, Brown's teams won all but 10 games in nine seasons – 80 wins, 8 losses and 2 ties – and he was credited with winning the state football championship six times and the high school national championship four times.

After he moved to coach college football – during wartime early in the 1940s, when coaches struggled to find players – his team won its first national championship.

Following a stint coaching at a naval training academy he coached professional football, leading one team that carried his name before found

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