1957 Detroit Lions season (original) (raw)

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The 1957 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 24th as the Detroit Lions. Under first-year head coach George Wilson, the Lions won their fourth and most recent NFL title. In the penultimate regular season game with the Cleveland Browns on December 8, hall of fame quarterback Bobby Layne was lost for the season with a broken right ankle. With backup Tobin Rote in at quarterback in the second quarter, the Lions won that game and overcame a ten-point deficit at halftime the following week to defeat the Chicago Bears 21–13, whom they had lost to three weeks earlier at home. They ended the regular season with three consecutive wins and an 8–4 record. All four losses were within the Western Conference, splitting the two games with all but the Green Bay Packers, whom they swept. Detroit tied with the San Francisco 49ers (8–4) for the conference title, which required a tiebreaker playoff game. Played at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco on December 22, the 49ers entered the game as three point favorites. Down by twenty points in the third quarter, Detroit rallied with a 24–0 run to win 31–27. This also marks the last time the Lions have won a playoff game away from home; they are 0-11 on the road in NFL postseason games since. The Lions were home underdogs for next week the NFL championship game on against Cleveland. Played on December 29 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, the Lions led 17–0 after the first quarter and won in a rout, 59–14. Through the 2021 season, the Lions have yet to win, or even return to, another NFL title game (including the Super Bowl), an absence of more than sixty years. It is the fourth-longest drought in all four major sports, and the second-longest in the NFL, behind the Arizona Cardinals (1947, when the team was still based in Chicago), although the Cardinals, unlike the Lions, have subsequently appeared in the Super Bowl. (en)

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Arnett 12 yard pass from Van Brocklin (en)
Cassady 26 yard pass from Layne (en)
Cassady 29 yard pass from Layne (en)
Johnson 1 yard run (en)
Junker 14 yard pass from Rote (en)
Layne 25 yard field goal (en)
Martin 47 yard field goal (en)
Moore 4 yard pass from Unitas (en)
Moore 72 yard pass from Unitas (en)
Mutscheller 15 yard pass from Unitas (en)
Mutscheller 66 yard pass from Unitas (en)
Reichow 16 yard pass from Rote (en)

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Lions (en)

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BAL 7–0 (en)
BAL 14–3 (en)
BAL 21–3 (en)
BAL 27–10 (en)
BAL 27–17 (en)
BAL 27–24 (en)
BAL 27–3 (en)
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DET 10–7 (en)
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LA 7–0 (en)

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;First Quarter *Lions – Tobin Rote 2-yard run – Lions 7–0 *Lions – Jack Christiansen 27-yard interception return – Lions 14–0 ;Second Quarter *Lions – Bobby Layne 15-yard field goal – Lions 17–0 ;Fourth Quarter *Lions – Gene Gedman 1-yard run – Lions 24–0 *Packers – Bart Starr 1-yard run – Lions 24–7 *Packers – Fred Cone 26-yard run – Lions 24–14 (en)

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The 1957 Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 24th as the Detroit Lions. Under first-year head coach George Wilson, the Lions won their fourth and most recent NFL title. (en)

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