| Dallas Cowboys at Cleveland Browns Game Statistics |
| Date: October 1, 1961 Location: Cleveland, OH |
| Venue: Cleveland Stadium Attendance: 43638 |
| Weather: Light Drizzle Temp: 53 F Humidty: 77% Wind: 6 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Cowboys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Cleveland Browns | 9 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 25 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | DAL | CLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleveland Browns | Jim Brown 7 run (Bobby Franklin run failed) | 0 | 6 |
| 1 | Cleveland Browns | Lou Groza 28 FG | 0 | 9 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Rich Kreitling 16 pass from Milt Plum (Lou Groza kick blocked) | 0 | 15 |
| 3 | Cleveland Browns | Lou Groza 27 FG | 0 | 18 |
| 4 | Cleveland Browns | Rich Kreitling 8 pass from Milt Plum (Lou Groza kick) | 0 | 25 |
| 4 | Dallas Cowboys | Don Perkins 7 pass from Don Meredith (Allen Green kick) | 7 | 25 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DAL | Don Perkins | 16 | 36 | 2.3 | 9 | 0 |
| DAL | Frank Clarke | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 0 | |
| DAL | Amos Marsh | 8 | 11 | 1.4 | 0 | |
| DAL | Don Meredith | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| DAL | L.G. Dupre | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| CLE | Jim Brown | 22 | 98 | 4.5 | 22 | 1 |
| CLE | Tommy Watkins | 14 | 92 | 6.6 | 0 | |
| CLE | Milt Plum | 4 | 21 | 5.3 | 0 | |
| CLE | Preston Powell | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| DAL | Don Meredith | 23 | 11 | 47.8 | 2 | 128 | 5.6 | 1 | 43.4 | |||
| DAL | Eddie LeBaron | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 56.2 | |
| CLE | Milt Plum | 17 | 8 | 47.1 | 1 | 100 | 5.9 | 2 | 80.5 | |||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DAL | Amos Marsh | 6 | 53 | 8.8 | 0 | |
| DAL | Don Perkins | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 20 | 1 |
| DAL | Dick Bielski | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| DAL | Billy Howton | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
| DAL | Jim Doran | 0 | 10 | 10L | 0 | |
| CLE | Ray Renfro | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 16 | 0 |
| CLE | Rich Kreitling | 3 | 29 | 9.7 | 2 | |
| CLE | Jim Brown | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 28 | 0 |
| CLE | Gern Nagler | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DAL | Don Bishop | 1 | 50 | 50.0 | 50 | 0 |
| CLE | Jim Shofner | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| CLE | Don Fleming | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| DAL | Allen Green | 5 | 192 | 38.4 | 0 | |
| CLE | Sam Baker | 2 | 76 | 38.0 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DAL | Warren Livingston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| CLE | Bobby Mitchell | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DAL | Amos Marsh | 4 | 76 | 19.0 | 0 | |
| CLE | Preston Powell | 1 | 33 | 33.0 | 33 | 0 |
| CLE | Tommy Watkins | 1 | 31 | 31.0 | 31 | 0 |
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