QB Frank Ryan, who led Browns to last championship, dies at 87

Cleveland Browns star QB from the ’60s Frank Ryan has died at 87

Frank Ryan, who quarterbacked the Cleveland Browns to the NFL championship in 1964, died Monday at a Connecticut nursing home.

Ryan was 87 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

Ryan threw three touchdown passes to Gary Collins as the Browns upset the Baltimore Colts 27-0 on Dec. 27, 1964.

Ryan played college football at Rice. He was a fifth-round pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1958.

He spent four years as a Ram before being traded to Cleveland in 1962.

Ryan was 52-22-2 in seven seasons with the Browns.

His career ended with sparse duty in Washington from 1969-70.