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prompted a drawn-out legal case between the Browns and the Rough Riders in the Canadian courts at the beginning of the 1953 season. Kissell was allowed to stay in the Canadian league as the proceedings continued, and the Rough Riders finished the season with a 7–7 record, falling short of an appearance in the league playoffs. The Browns and Rough Riders settled their differences the following April, agreeing to send Kissell back to Cleveland. Kissell said he had "made a mistake" by going to the Canadian league and thanked Brown for giving him a second chance.
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for $ 9,500 a year plus bonuses – $ 2,000 more than he was making with the Browns. He joined numerous other NFL players, including teammate Mac Speedie, in a player exodus to the CFL, which was trying to build its talent pool by offering better salaries to American players. The move, however,
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After his professional career, Kissell went back to New Hampshire and was the recreation director at Spring Street Junior High School in Nashua, later serving as a teacher there until 1985. In 1964, he took a job as line coach for the short-lived
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after the season. The AAFC disbanded at the end of 1949 because of financial struggles stemming from poor attendance and competition over player salaries, and three of its teams – the Browns, Colts and
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Kissell signed with the Bills in 1948 and played there for two years before the AAFC dissolved and the team disbanded. He was then sent to the Browns in a deal orchestrated by coach
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outside of Paris in 1945, and also served in Africa and the Middle East. Kissell returned to Boston after the war and played as a defensive lineman in the 1946 and 1947 seasons.
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a 25% share in the team. In the Browns, Kissell joined a team that had won all of the AAFC's four championships behind an offense that featured
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in Canada for the 1959 season. He then retired from playing and became a junior high school teacher back in Nashua. He died of cancer in 1992.
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for first place in the AAFC East. After beating the Colts in a playoff, the Bills lost the AAFC championship game to the
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The Browns won two more championships in 1954 and 1955 while Kissell was with the team. He recovered a fumble in the
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in practice so hard that he broke it. Cleveland finished the 1951 season with an 11–1 record and again reached the
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in Texas, and played for the base's service football team before being sent to Europe. He spent time at the
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to acquire former Buffalo players. He played in Cleveland through 1956, interrupted by one year with the
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With the Browns, Kissell had a reputation as a mean and exceptionally strong defender playing beside
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The Original Buffalo Bills: A History of the All-America Football Conference Team, 1946-1949
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Kissell took two years off of football before signing in the summer of 1959 to play for the
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In 1950, players from the AAFC's defunct teams – including the Bills – went into a
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The Browns again contended for the NFL championship in 1952 but lost to the
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against the Lions and was part of a defensive front with Ford,
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The Best Show in Football: The 1946–1955 Cleveland Browns
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John Kissel
A photo of John Kissell in a three-point stance in a Cleveland Browns number 45 uniform
Defensive tackle
Nashua, New Hampshire
Nashua (NH)
Boston College
1947
Los Angeles Rams
Buffalo Bills
Cleveland Browns
1950
1952
Ottawa Rough Riders
1954
1956
Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen
NFL champion
1950
1954
1955
All-Pro
1951
PFR
American football
defensive tackle
Buffalo Bills
All-America Football Conference
Cleveland Browns
National Football League
Boston College

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