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The 1946 Cleveland Browns season was the team’s first in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The Browns coached by Paul Brown ended the year with a record of 12–2 winning the AAFC’s Western Division. Led by quarterback Otto Graham fullback Marion Motley and ends Dante Lavelli and Mac Speedie the team won the first AAFC championship game against the New York Yankees.The Browns were founded by Arthur B. McBride a Cleveland taxi-cab tycoon as a charter franchise in the new AAFC.