Galen Fiss

Galen Fiss
Career information
Date of birth	(1931-07-30)July 30, 1931
Place of birth	Johnson City, Kansas
Date of death	July 17, 2006(2006-07-17) (aged 74)
Place of death	Overland Park, Kansas
Position(s)	Linebacker
College	Kansas
NFL draft	1953 / Round: 13 / Pick: 155
Career history
As player
1956–1966	Cleveland Browns

Career highlights and awards
Pro Bowls	2 (1962, 1963)
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Galen Fiss (July 30, 1931 in Johnson City, Kansas – July 17, 2006 in Overland Park, Kansas) is a former American football linebacker who played eleven seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. Fiss was captain on Cleveland’s NFL championship team in 1964. Fiss, who had Alzheimer's disease, died of cardiac arrest in 2006.

Fiss was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.^[1]

Cleveland Browns 1964 NFL champions
11 Jim Ninowski 13 Frank Ryan 20 Ross Fichtner 22 Lowell Caylor 23 Larry Benz 24 Bobby Franklin 26 Dave Raimey 27 Walter Roberts 30 Bernie Parrish 32 Jim Brown 35 Galen Fiss 36 Charley Scales 38 Stan Sczurek 42 Paul Warfield 44 Leroy Kelly 48 Ernie Green 49 Walter Beach 50 Vince Costello 52 Mike Lucci 56 John Morrow 62 Dale Memmelaar 60 John Wooten 64 Ed Bettridge 66 Gene Hickerson 67 Sid Williams 69 Jim Kanicki 70 John Brown 72 Mike Bundra 73 Monte Clark 74 Dick Modzelewski 75 Roger Shoals 76 Lou Groza 77 Dick Schafrath 78 Frank Parker 79 Bob Gain 80 Bill Glass 82 Jim Houston 83 Johnny Brewer 84 Paul Wiggin 85 Clifton McNeil 86 Gary Collins 87 Tom Hutchinson
Head Coach: Blanton Collier
Assistant Coaches: Howard Brinker Fritz Heisler Dub Jones Nick Skorich Ed Ulinski

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