1975: The Browns sign a pair of their rookies – running backs Larry Poole and Henry Hynoski – to contracts for the upcoming season, but No. 1 selection Mack Mitchell continues to hold out.

1964: After being on the business end of a 10-2 loss to the Giants in Mesa, Ariz., in spring training action, Indians general manager Gabe Paul announces lefty Sam McDowell is being optioned to Portland.

1953: Former Indians owner Alva Bradley, who owned the team for 19 years before selling to a syndicate led by Bill Veeck, passes away of a heart attack at the age of 69 at his vacation home in Del Ray Beach, Fla.

1942: The Ohio Rubber Company Gun Club set a four-man team world record when it collects 1,596 marks out of a possible 1,600 during an event at Public Hall in Cleveland.

1931: Charlie Fox sweeps straight falls from Julius Wozluck during a Greco-Roman wrestling card at the Moose AC show in Ashtabula, and 169-pounder Bob Sowers wins two falls from Pittsburgh’s Wild Bill Jacobson.

2007: Patrick Nicely drives in two runs and gets the win in relief as South edges Solon, 9-7, in baseball, and Sarah Baker belts a two-run home run in the third for Lake Catholic in a 6-5 win over the Rebels.

1996: Cleveland State men’s basketball coach Mike Boyd resigns after six seasons, and Vikings athletic director John Konstantinos denies he has made contact with former Villanova and UNLV coach Rollie Massimino.

1985: Craig Allen scores a pair of goals as the Force stave off a late rally bid by the Minnesota Strikers for a 5-4 win before 12,482 at Richfield Coliseum.

1974: Grant Erickson nets a power-play goal in the second period, Doug Brindley also lights the lamp in the second and Bob Whidden records 15 saves as the Crusaders defeat visiting Edmonton, 3-1.

1963: The Painesville Telegraph reveals its final boys basketball leaders with three area players averaging 18 points per game: Wickliffe’s Frank Fitz (23.4), Mentor’s Jeff Kalin (18.9) and West Geauga’s Mark LaMoreaux (18.0).

2006: The Lake Catholic girls basketball team falls in the Division II state final to Warsaw River View, 48-29, as River View sisters Kristin and Kari Daugherty combine for 35 points.

1995: University’s Drew Carleton (37 goals) and Mentor’s Rob MacKinlay (49 goals, 36 assists) share player of the year honors on The News-Herald ‘s hockey all-star team.

1984: Cliff Robinson’s 24 points and John Bagley’s 16 – all in the second half – aren’t enough for the Cavaliers in a 118-102 loss to the visiting Nuggets at Richfield Coliseum.

1973: Connie Hada’s 14 points paces Harvey in a 39-19 girls basketball win at Ledgemont, and Charlie Spikes, part of the Graig Nettles trade with the Yankees, belts two home runs in the Indians’ 5-4 spring training victory over the Cubs.

1962: Orland Kurtenbach nets a hat trick as the Barons take out Buffalo, 7-5, and wrestle first place in the American Hockey League’s Eastern Division at 35-24-3, good for 73 points to the Bisons’ 72.

1951: It is revealed Ohio Northern athletic director Clyde Lamb will be the keynote speaker for Mentor’s upcoming basketball and track banquet, and catcher Jim Hegan is profiled by the Painesville Telegraph for its Indians’ year in review.

1940: Indians starter Johnny Allen, coming off a season in which he won just nine games because of an arm operation, signs an incentive-laced one-year deal with the team, leaving catcher Frankie Pylak and pitcher Willis Hudlin as the only unsigned players.

1929: Cleveland lightweight boxer Billy Wallace records an eighth-round TKO over Richie King at Philadelphia Arena, landing a left hook to open a cut on King’s eye.

2005: Jimmy McLeod scores 11 of his team-high 19 points in the second half, and Darryl Rushton contributes a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds as Villa Angela-St. Joseph, playing without standout David Lighty (torn ACL), defeats Rootstown, 61-45, in a Division III regional semifinal.

1994: Lyndsay Frank has a team-high 14 points and Kim Fuller follows with 13 points and nine rebounds as Cardinal books its place in a Division III Mount Union Regional final with a 49-45 victory over St. Thomas Aquinas.

1983: The area’s regional representation are both defeated, with Ray Singleton scoring 36 points as the Harvey boys basketball team falls to Girard, 76-63, and Claudia Euse netting 24 points as North bows out with a 77-63 loss to Valley Forge.

1972: Kirtland, with no substitutions for all but 43 seconds of the game, gets 21 points from Ron Parker in a 58-49 victory over Windham before a crowd of 2,100 in a Class A district boys basketball game in Canton.

1961: Jack Adams scores 31 points as the visiting Cleveland Pipers improve to 24-9 and clinch the National Basketball League title with a 114-106 victory over the Denver D-C Truckers.

1950: Forward Jack Temple’s free throw with 10 seconds remaining propels Willoughby Union to a 45-44 in a boys basketball tournament contest at Euclid, earning the right to take on Shaw.