| 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| WAS | Don Bosseler | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | 0 | |
| WAS | Jim Cunningham | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 0 | |
| WAS | Sam Horner | 7 | 12 | 1.7 | 0 | |
| WAS | Dick James | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| CLE | Bobby Mitchell | 4 | 41 | 20.0 | 31 | 1 |
| CLE | Tommy Watkins | 6 | 26 | 4.3 | 0 | |
| CLE | Jim Brown | 17 | 24 | 1.4 | 9 | 0 |
| CLE | Mike McCormack | 0 | 4 | 4L | 0 | |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| WAS | Norm Snead | 27 | 13 | 48.1 | 2 | 200 | 7.4 | 1 | 54.6 | |||
| WAS | George Izo | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 118.8 | |||
| CLE | Milt Plum | 26 | 16 | 61.5 | 0 | 184 | 7.1 | 1 | 95.7 | |||
| CLE | Len Dawson | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 17 | 17.0 | 17t | 1 | 158.3 | ||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| WAS | Fred Dugan | 7 | 120 | 17.1 | 0 | |
| WAS | Tom Osborne | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 1 | |
| WAS | Bill Anderson | 2 | 59 | 29.5 | 0 | |
| WAS | Jim Cunningham | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 | |
| WAS | Dick James | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| CLE | Jim Brown | 7 | 41 | 5.9 | 10 | 0 |
| CLE | Bobby Mitchell | 3 | 60 | 10.3 | 1 | |
| CLE | Ray Renfro | 3 | 50 | 16.7 | 18 | 1 |
| CLE | Rich Kreitling | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | |
| CLE | Gern Nagler | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Don Fleming | 2 | 61 | 30.5 | 0 | |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| WAS | Sam Horner | 5 | 205 | 41.0 | 0 | |
| CLE | Sam Baker | 4 | 181 | 45.3 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| WAS | Dick James | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 | |
| CLE | Bobby Mitchell | 3 | 83 | 27.7 | 1 | ||
| CLE | Jim Shofner | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| WAS | Dick James | 4 | 116 | 29.0 | 0 | |
| WAS | Jim Kerr | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | |
| CLE | Preston Powell | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 25 | 0 |
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