1961 Cleveland Browns Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Cleveland Browns

8-5-1

3rd in Eastern Conference

Scored 22.8 PPG (6th)

Allowed 19.3 PPG (5th)

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1961 Regular Season Team Stats

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	SCK	SCKY	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	14	319	4,537	817	5.6	2,163	476	4.5	2,538	320	7.9	21	164	246	116	120	10	47	455
Team Rank		10th	9th	20th	5th	3rd	2nd	6th	18th	21st	6th	3rd	21st	9th	3rd	15th	18th	3rd	3rd
Opponent	14	270	4,131	807	5.1	1,605	411	3.9	2,831	358	7.9	38	305	243	87	146	10
Opponent Rank		7th	10th	2nd	13th	8th	8th	9th	11th	4th	16th	11th	11th	14th	8th	20th	2nd
Net		+49	+406	+10	+0.4	+558	+65	+0.6	-293	-38	+0.0	-17	-141	+3	+29	-26	0	+47	+455
Net Rank		8th	9th	10th	8th	4th	4th	4th	16th	15th	12th	3rd	18th	12th	4th	20th	10th	3rd	3rd

1961 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Milt Plum	14	177	302	58.6	21.6	2,416	8.0	172.6	18	6.0	10	3.3	77			90.3
	Len Dawson	7	7	15	46.7	2.1	85	5.7	12.1	1	6.7	3	20.0	17			47.2
	Jim Brown	14	1	3	33.3	0.2	37	12.3	2.6	1	33.3	0	0.0	37			120.8

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jim Brown	14	305	21.8	1,408	4.6	100.6	8	38	351	1,867
	Bobby Mitchell	14	101	7.2	548	5.4	39.1	5	56	133	916
	Tom Watkins	10	43	4.3	209	4.9	20.9	0	21	47	275
	Milt Plum	14	24	1.7	-17	-0.7	-1.2	1	14	24	-17
	Bobby Franklin	14	1	0.1	12	12.0	0.9	1	12	1	12
	Preston Powell	12	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	5	1	5
	Len Dawson	7	1	0.1	-10	-10.0	-1.4	0	-10	1	-10

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ray Renfro	14	48		3.4	834	17.4	59.6	6	57	48	834
	Jim Brown	14	46		3.3	459	10.0	32.8	2	77	351	1,867
	Bobby Mitchell	14	32		2.3	368	11.5	26.3	3	52	133	916
	Rich Kreitling	13	21		1.6	229	10.9	17.6	3	19	21	233
	Gern Nagler	13	19		1.5	241	12.7	18.5	1	21	19	241
	Leon Clarke	13	11		0.8	211	19.2	16.2	2	41	11	211
	Tom Watkins	10	4		0.4	66	16.5	6.6	1	35	47	275
	Charley Ferguson	12	2		0.2	68	34.0	5.7	1	60	2	68
	Bob Crespino	13	2		0.2	62	31.0	4.8	1	49	2	62

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Bernie Parrish	14							7	40	5.7	0	16
	Jim Shofner	14							5	8	1.6	0	5
	Don Fleming	14							3	62	20.7	0	41
	Bobby Franklin	14							2	20	10	0	20
	Walt Michaels	14							2	17	8.5	0	15
	Galen Fiss	13							1	13	13	0	13

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Lou Groza	14	0	0	0	0	16	37		0	85
	Jim Brown	14	8	2	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Bobby Mitchell	14	5	3	2	10	0	0		0	60
	Ray Renfro	14	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Rich Kreitling	13	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Leon Clarke	13	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Vince Costello	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Bob Crespino	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Charley Ferguson	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bobby Franklin	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Gern Nagler	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bernie Parrish	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Milt Plum	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Tom Watkins	10	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Bobby Mitchell	14	16	164	11.7	1	64	14
	Preston Powell	12	16	0		0		0
	Tom Watkins	10	9	0		0		0
	Sam Baker	14	3	0		0		0
	Jim Brown	14	2	0		0		0
	Larry Stephens	14	1	0		0		0
	Ross Fichtner	13	1	0		0		0
	Errol Linden	10	1	0		0		0
	Johnny Brewer	14	1	0		0		0

Kicking

		GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Lou Groza	14	16	23	69.6	4-6	8-8	3-3	1-3	0-3	37	38	97.4	85

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Sam Baker	14	53	2,296	43.3	62	0