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CLEVELAND (AP) - The Cleveland Browns are making a season-saving tackle for some high school football programs. The NFL club is donating $300,000 to fund nine city high school teams who otherwise would have had their 2005 football seasons canceled because of a lack of finances in one of the nation's most troubled school districts.
The Browns will announce the contribution at a Friday news conference in the team's Berea headquarters. Team president John Collins will attend the ceremony along with Cleveland schools chief executive Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
The club is making the contribution — the largest one-time donation ever received by Cleveland's school district — just four months after the Cleveland Indians gave $250,000 to pay for the city's baseball and softball programs.
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