| Cleveland Browns at Atlanta Falcons Game Statistics |
| Date: September 17, 1978 Location: Atlanta, GA |
| Venue: Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Attendance: 56648 |
| Weather: Half Cloudy Temp: 84 F Humidty: 63% Wind: 5 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Browns | 0 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
| Atlanta Falcons | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 16 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | CLE | ATL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Atlanta Falcons | Fred Steinfort 24 FG | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Don Cockroft 43 FG | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Ozzie Newsome 2 pass from Brian Sipe (Don Cockroft kick) | 10 | 3 |
| 2 | Atlanta Falcons | Haskel Stanback 15 run (Fred Steinfort kick) | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Cleveland Browns | Reggie Rucker 27 pass from Brian Sipe (Don Cockroft kick) | 17 | 10 |
| 4 | Atlanta Falcons | Ray Strong 2 run (Fred Steinfort kick failed) | 17 | 16 |
| 4 | Cleveland Browns | Brian Sipe 2 run (Don Cockroft kick) | 24 | 16 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Mike Pruitt | 15 | 65 | 4.3 | 15 | 0 |
| CLE | Cleo Miller | 7 | 24 | 3.4 | 12 | 0 |
| CLE | Reggie Rucker | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
| CLE | Larry Collins | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 8 | 0 |
| CLE | Ozzie Newsome | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
| CLE | Tom Sullivan | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 0 |
| CLE | Brian Sipe | 2 | -3 | -1.5 | 2t | 1 |
| ATL | Haskel Stanback | 7 | 31 | 4.4 | 15t | 1 |
| ATL | Ricky Patton | 7 | 23 | 3.3 | 12 | 0 |
| ATL | Ray Strong | 5 | 19 | 3.8 | 7 | 1 |
| ATL | Bubba Bean | 10 | 14 | 1.4 | 8 | 0 |
| ATL | Steve Bartkowski | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| CLE | Brian Sipe | 35 | 20 | 57.1 | 0 | 219 | 6.3 | 42 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 94.8 |
| ATL | Steve Bartkowski | 15 | 7 | 46.7 | 2 | 126 | 8.4 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 36.4 |
| ATL | June Jones | 13 | 4 | 30.8 | 2 | 62 | 4.8 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 32 | 8.0 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Dave Logan | 5 | 63 | 12.6 | 0 | |
| CLE | Reggie Rucker | 4 | 60 | 15.0 | 1 | |
| CLE | Ozzie Newsome | 4 | 19 | 4.8 | 1 | |
| CLE | Ricky Feacher | 3 | 57 | 19.0 | 0 | |
| CLE | Cleo Miller | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | |
| CLE | Mike Pruitt | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| ATL | Billy Ryckman | 3 | 48 | 16.0 | 0 | |
| ATL | Jim Mitchell | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | 0 | |
| ATL | Wallace Francis | 2 | 61 | 30.5 | 0 | |
| ATL | Dennis Pearson | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
| ATL | Alfred Jackson | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
| ATL | Ricky Patton | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Thom Darden | 2 | 46 | 23.0 | 46 | 0 |
| CLE | Dick Ambrose | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| CLE | Gerald Irons | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| CLE | Johnny Evans | 8 | 306 | 38.3 | 52 | 0 |
| ATL | John James | 7 | 306 | 43.7 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Keith Wright | 4 | 3 | 22 | 5.5 | 13 | 0 |
| ATL | Alfred Jackson | 1 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 14 | 0 |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| CLE | Larry Collins | 4 | 92 | 23.0 | 27 | 0 |
| ATL | Alfred Jackson | 2 | 44 | 22.0 | 23 | 0 |
| ATL | Tom Pridemore | 2 | 36 | 18.0 | 20 | 0 |
| ATL | Ray Strong | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| SACKS | ||
|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO |
| CLE | Mack Mitchell | 2.5 |
| CLE | Earl Edwards | 1.0 |
| CLE | Clarence Scott | 1.0 |
| CLE | Jerry Sherk | 0.5 |
| CLE | Charlie Hall | 0.5 |
| CLE | Gerald Irons | 0.5 |
| ATL | Greg Brezina | 2.0 |
| ATL | Fulton Kuykendall | 1.0 |
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