| Washington Redskins at Cleveland Browns Game Statistics |
| Date: October 8, 1961 Location: Cleveland, OH |
| Venue: Cleveland Stadium Attendance: 46186 |
| Weather: Scattered Clouds Temp: 75 F Humidty: 45% Wind: 7 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Cleveland Browns | 3 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 31 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | WAS | CLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleveland Browns | Lou Groza 34 FG | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Bobby Mitchell 52 pass from Milt Plum (Lou Groza kick) | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Bobby Mitchell 64 punt return (Lou Groza kick) | 0 | 17 |
| 2 | Washington Redskins | Tom Osborne 6 pass from Norm Snead (John Aveni kick) | 7 | 17 |
| 4 | Cleveland Browns | Bobby Mitchell 31 run (Lou Groza kick) | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Cleveland Browns | Ray Renfro 17 pass from Len Dawson (Lou Groza kick) | 7 | 31 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | |||||
| Don Bosseler | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | 0 | |
| Jim Cunningham | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 0 | |
| Sam Horner | 7 | 12 | 1.7 | 0 | |
| Dick James | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Cleveland Browns | |||||
| Bobby Mitchell | 4 | 41 | 20.0 | 31 | 1 |
| Tommy Watkins | 6 | 26 | 4.3 | 0 | |
| Jim Brown | 17 | 24 | 1.4 | 9 | 0 |
| Mike McCormack | 0 | 4 | 4L | 0 | |
| PASSING | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | |||||||||||
| Norm Snead | 27 | 13 | 48.1 | 2 | 200 | 7.4 | 1 | 54.6 | |||
| George Izo | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 118.8 | |||
| Cleveland Browns | |||||||||||
| Milt Plum | 26 | 16 | 61.5 | 0 | 184 | 7.1 | 1 | 95.7 | |||
| Len Dawson | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 17 | 17.0 | 17t | 1 | 158.3 | ||
| RECEIVING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | |||||
| Fred Dugan | 7 | 120 | 17.1 | 0 | |
| Tom Osborne | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 1 | |
| Bill Anderson | 2 | 59 | 29.5 | 0 | |
| Jim Cunningham | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | |
| Dick James | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Cleveland Browns | |||||
| Jim Brown | 7 | 41 | 5.9 | 10 | 0 |
| Bobby Mitchell | 3 | 60 | 10.3 | 1 | |
| Ray Renfro | 3 | 50 | 16.7 | 18 | 1 |
| Rich Kreitling | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | |
| Gern Nagler | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | |||||
| Cleveland Browns | |||||
| Don Fleming | 2 | 61 | 30.5 | 0 | |
| PUNTING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | |||||
| Sam Horner | 5 | 205 | 41.0 | 0 | |
| Cleveland Browns | |||||
| Sam Baker | 4 | 181 | 45.3 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | ||||||
| Dick James | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 | |
| Cleveland Browns | ||||||
| Bobby Mitchell | 3 | 83 | 27.7 | 1 | ||
| Jim Shofner | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Redskins | ||||||
| Dick James | 4 | 116 | 29.0 | 0 | ||
| Jim Kerr | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | ||
| Cleveland Browns | ||||||
| Preston Powell | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 25 | 0 | |
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