| Buffalo Bills at Houston Oilers Game Statistics |
| Date: October 8, 1961 Location: Houston, TX |
| Venue: Jeppesen Stadium Attendance: 22761 |
| Weather: Cloudy Temp: 86 F Humidty: 65% Wind: 20 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Bills | 0 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 22 |
| Houston Oilers | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | BUF | HOU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Buffalo Bills | Fred Brown 4 run (Billy Atkins kick) | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | Houston Oilers | Bill Groman 54 pass from Jacky Lee (George Blanda kick) | 7 | 7 |
| 2 | Houston Oilers | George Blanda 14 FG | 7 | 10 |
| 3 | Houston Oilers | Safety, Billy Atkins punt blocked out of end zone by Dennit Morris | 7 | 12 |
| 4 | Buffalo Bills | Perry Richards 15 pass from Warren Rabb (Richie Lucas run) | 15 | 12 |
| 4 | Buffalo Bills | Wray Carlton 27 run (Billy Atkins kick) | 22 | 12 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 10 | 87 | 8.7 | 1 | |
| BUF | Fred Brown | 8 | 35 | 4.4 | 1 | |
| BUF | Elbert Dubenion | 5 | 35 | 7.0 | 0 | |
| BUF | Warren Rabb | 4 | 28 | 7.0 | 0 | |
| BUF | M.C. Reynolds | 3 | 14 | 4.7 | 0 | |
| BUF | Art Baker | 8 | 7 | 0.9 | 0 | |
| HOU | Charlie Tolar | 11 | 23 | 2.1 | 0 | |
| HOU | Billy Cannon | 8 | 19 | 2.4 | 0 | |
| HOU | Jacky Lee | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 0 | |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| BUF | M.C. Reynolds | 21 | 8 | 38.1 | 2 | 135 | 6.4 | 0 | 21.0 | |||
| BUF | Warren Rabb | 5 | 2 | 40.0 | 0 | 47 | 9.4 | 1 | 114.2 | |||
| HOU | Jacky Lee | 26 | 10 | 38.5 | 2 | 196 | 7.5 | 1 | 46.3 | |||
| HOU | Billy Cannon | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 | |||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BUF | Monte Crockett | 4 | 102 | 25.5 | 0 | |
| BUF | Glenn Bass | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 32 | 0 |
| BUF | Richie Lucas | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
| BUF | Elbert Dubenion | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
| BUF | Perry Richards | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15t | 1 |
| BUF | Art Baker | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| BUF | Wray Carlton | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| HOU | Charley Hennigan | 4 | 109 | 27.3 | 0 | |
| HOU | Bill Groman | 3 | 79 | 26.3 | 1 | |
| HOU | Bob McLeod | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 |
| HOU | Charlie Tolar | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| HOU | Billy Cannon | 1 | -4 | -4.0 | -4 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BUF | Billy Atkins | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
| BUF | Archie Matsos | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| HOU | Jim Norton | 1 | 36 | 36.0 | 36 | 0 |
| HOU | Tony Banfield | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 21 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| BUF | Billy Atkins | 7 | 237 | 33.9 | 1 | |
| HOU | Jim Norton | 7 | 325 | 46.4 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BUF | Billy Atkins | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 0 | ||
| BUF | Glenn Bass | 2 | 11 | 5.5 | 0 | ||
| HOU | Billy Cannon | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 20 | 0 | |
| HOU | Claude King | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| HOU | Billy Cannon | 2 | 59 | 29.5 | 0 | |
| HOU | Mike Dukes | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| HOU | Claude King | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
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