Sunday, October 1, 1961
| DAL | CLE | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Browns | Jim Brown 7 yard rush (kick failed) | 0 | 6 |
| Browns | Lou Groza 28 yard field goal | 0 | 9 | |
| 2nd | Browns | Rich Kreitling 16 yard pass from Milt Plum (kick failed) | 0 | 15 |
| 3rd | Browns | Lou Groza 27 yard field goal | 0 | 18 |
| 4th | Browns | Rich Kreitling 8 yard pass from Milt Plum (Lou Groza kick) | 0 | 25 |
| Cowboys | Don Perkins 7 yard pass from Don Meredith (Allen Green kick) | 7 | 25 |
| DAL | CLE | |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 9 | 18 |
| Rush-yards-TDs | 26-52-0 | 41-216-1 |
| Comp-Att-Yd-TD-INT | 12-25-129-1-2 | 8-17-100-2-1 |
| Sacked-yards | 3-29 | 0-0 |
| Net pass yards | 100 | 100 |
| Total yards | 152 | 316 |
| Fumbles-lost | 3-1 | 4-3 |
| Turnovers | 3 | 4 |
| Penalties-yards | 6-43 | 5-42 |
| Passing | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng |
| Don Meredith | DAL | 11 | 23 | 128 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Amos Marsh | DAL | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 53 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Don Perkins | DAL | 16 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Dick Bielski | DAL | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Frank Clarke | DAL | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Billy Howton | DAL | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| L.G. Dupre | DAL | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Eddie LeBaron | DAL | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Jim Brown | CLE | 22 | 98 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Tom Watkins | CLE | 14 | 92 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Milt Plum | CLE | 8 | 17 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Ray Renfro | CLE | 3 | 36 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rich Kreitling | CLE | 3 | 29 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Gern Nagler | CLE | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Preston Powell | CLE | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Kick Returns | Punt Returns | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FR | Yds | TD | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | ||
| Don Bishop | DAL | 0.0 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Warren Livingston | DAL | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Amos Marsh | DAL | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 76 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Don Perkins | DAL | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Don Fleming | CLE | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Bobby Mitchell | CLE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Preston Powell | CLE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 33.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Jim Shofner | CLE | 0.0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Tom Watkins | CLE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 31.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Scoring | Punting | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | XPM | XPA | FGM | FGA | Pnt | Yds | Lng | |
| Allen Green | DAL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 192 | 38.4 | 0 | |
| Sam Baker | CLE | 2 | 76 | 38.0 | 0 | ||||
| Lou Groza | CLE | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |