Paul Brown was the first general manager and coach of the Cleveland Browns and led that franchise to seven pro football championships in the 1940s and 50s. The team, which was named after him, won all four titles in the short-lived All-American Football Conference, and NFL titles in 1950, 1954, and 1955. Brown was radical in that he treated football as a scientific, intellectual, and academic discipline as opposed to mere physical activity. He was the first coach to study plays using notebook and classroom techniques, the first coach to relay plays from the sideline rather than called in the huddle, and the first coach to place an assistant coach in the press box to collect and communicate information. Brown invented the face mask, the notion of a passing pocket to protect the quarterback, the draw play, and the timed 40-yard dash. He was also the first coach to evaluate his players through film study, to hire a full-time coaching staff, and to require players to stay in a hotel together the evening before home and road games. Brown, who later founded the Bengals in 1968 and was that team’s first coach, won 213 games in his career.