| Denver Broncos at Buffalo Bills Game Statistics |
| Date: September 10, 1961 Location: Buffalo, NY |
| Venue: War Memorial Stadium Attendance: 16636 |
| Weather: Smoke Haze Temp: 84 F Humidty: 59% Wind: 7 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Broncos | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 22 |
| Buffalo Bills | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | DEN | BUF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denver Broncos | Lionel Taylor 50 pass from Gene Mingo (Gene Mingo kick) | 7 | 0 |
| 1 | Buffalo Bills | Elbert Dubenion 65 run (Richie Lucas run) | 7 | 8 |
| 2 | Denver Broncos | Al Frazier 23 pass from Frank Tripucka (Al Frazier run) | 15 | 8 |
| 3 | Denver Broncos | Lionel Taylor 52 pass from Gene Mingo (Gene Mingo kick) | 22 | 8 |
| 4 | Buffalo Bills | Safety, George Herring ran out of end zone by (Team) | 22 | 10 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DEN | Al Frazier | 2 | 52 | 26.0 | 0 | |
| DEN | Donnie Stone | 10 | 22 | 2.2 | 0 | |
| DEN | Jerry Traynham | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | 0 | |
| DEN | Al Carmichael | 6 | 9 | 1.5 | 5 | 0 |
| DEN | Gene Mingo | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 0 | |
| DEN | Fred Bukaty | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | |
| DEN | Buddy Allen | 3 | -4 | -1.3 | 0 | |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 10 | 59 | 5.9 | 0 | |
| BUF | Elbert Dubenion | 2 | 57 | 28.5 | 1 | |
| BUF | Fred Brown | 8 | 29 | 3.6 | 0 | |
| BUF | Art Baker | 7 | 28 | 4.0 | 0 | |
| BUF | Willmer Fowler | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| BUF | Richie Lucas | 3 | -9 | -3.0 | 0 | |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| DEN | Frank Tripucka | 19 | 11 | 57.9 | 1 | 93 | 4.9 | 1 | 66.3 | |||
| DEN | Gene Mingo | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 102 | 51.0 | 2 | 158.3 | |||
| BUF | Richie Lucas | 21 | 10 | 47.6 | 1 | 134 | 6.4 | 0 | 48.5 | |||
| BUF | Tommy O'Connell | 5 | 1 | 20.0 | 1 | 11 | 2.2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 | |||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DEN | Lionel Taylor | 7 | 132 | 18.9 | 2 | |
| DEN | Al Frazier | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23t | 1 |
| DEN | Gene Mingo | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 20 | 0 |
| DEN | Al Carmichael | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
| DEN | Donnie Stone | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
| DEN | Fred Bukaty | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| DEN | Jerry Traynham | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| BUF | Tom Rychlec | 5 | 48 | 9.6 | 0 | |
| BUF | Elbert Dubenion | 3 | 34 | 11.3 | 0 | |
| BUF | Glenn Bass | 1 | 38 | 38.0 | 38 | 0 |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 14 | 0 |
| BUF | Fred Brown | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DEN | Austin Gonsoulin | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 0 | |
| BUF | Archie Matsos | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| DEN | George Herring | 8 | 331 | 41.4 | 0 | |
| BUF | Billy Atkins | 8 | 332 | 41.5 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DEN | Al Frazier | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 0 | ||
| DEN | Al Carmichael | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| BUF | Fred Brown | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 | |
| BUF | Elbert Dubenion | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DEN | Al Carmichael | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 0 | |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 0 | |
| BUF | Art Baker | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 25 | 0 |
| BUF | Ken Rice | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
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