Sunday, October 29, 1972
| CLE | DEN | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Browns | Don Cockroft 27 yard field goal | 3 | 0 |
| Broncos | Bobby Anderson 28 yard pass from Charley Johnson (Jim Turner kick) | 3 | 7 | |
| Broncos | Jim Turner 32 yard field goal | 3 | 10 | |
| 2nd | Browns | Milt Morin 2 yard pass from Mike Phipps (Don Cockroft kick) | 10 | 10 |
| 3rd | Broncos | Floyd Little 19 yard pass from Charley Johnson (Jim Turner kick) | 10 | 17 |
| Browns | Don Cockroft 57 yard field goal | 13 | 17 | |
| 4th | Browns | Paul Staroba 19 yard pass from Mike Phipps (Don Cockroft kick) | 20 | 17 |
| Broncos | Jim Turner 43 yard field goal | 20 | 20 | |
| Browns | Mike Phipps 1 yard rush (Don Cockroft kick) | 27 | 20 |
| CLE | DEN | |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 26 | 17 |
| Rush-yards-TDs | 39-172-1 | 22-146-0 |
| Comp-Att-Yd-TD-INT | 15-33-178-2-1 | 14-24-140-2-1 |
| Sacked-yards | 1-7 | 2-14 |
| Net pass yards | 171 | 126 |
| Total yards | 343 | 272 |
| Fumbles-lost | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Turnovers | 1 | 1 |
| Penalties-yards | 5-55 | 4-30 |
| Passing | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng |
| Mike Phipps | CLE | 15 | 33 | 178 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Leroy Kelly | CLE | 14 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Bo Scott | CLE | 14 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Milt Morin | CLE | 4 | 51 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Fair Hooker | CLE | 3 | 51 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Frank Pitts | CLE | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Paul Staroba | CLE | 1 | 19 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chip Glass | CLE | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ken Brown | CLE | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Bobby Anderson | DEN | 8 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 86 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Floyd Little | DEN | 14 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Charley Johnson | DEN | 14 | 24 | 140 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Rod Sherman | DEN | 4 | 40 | 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 | ||
| Ken Brown | CLE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Thom Darden | CLE | 0.0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Bobby Majors | CLE | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Joe Dawkins | DEN | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Tom Graham | DEN | 0.0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Floyd Little | DEN | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Randy Montgomery | DEN | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 101 | 25.3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Rod Sherman | DEN | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Scoring | Punting | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Tm | XPM | XPA | FGM | FGA | Pnt | Yds | Lng | |
| Don Cockroft | CLE | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 155 | 51.7 | 0 |
| Jim Turner | DEN | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Billy Van Heusen | DEN | 3 | 121 | 40.3 | 0 | ||||