CIN 27 @ CLE 31 - 1971 NFL

1971 Week 12

Cincinnati BengalsCIN

27-31

Cleveland BrownsCLE

Sun, December 5, 1971 · 1:00PM · Cleveland Municipal Stadium

Surface: grassLine: Cleveland Browns -1.0

CIN: Paul Brown · CLE: Nick Skorich

CIN

Team Stats

CLE

1st Downs

34-232

Rushing

38-182

13-23-118

Passing

14-28-224

346

Total Yards

406

Scoring

1st Quarter

Leroy Kelly 1 yard rush (Don Cockroft kick)

Horst Muhlmann 46 yard field goal

Doug Dressler 4 yard rush (Horst Muhlmann kick)

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Offensive Stats

Player	C/A	YDS	TD	INT	SK	RTG
CIN
Passing
Virgil Carter	13/23	118	0	1	1	52.4
Rushing
Player	ATT	YDS	TD	LNG	FUM
Virgil Carter	1	5	0	5	0
Essex Johnson	4	109	1	86	0
Fred Willis	17	79	1	21	0
Doug Dressler	12	39	1	6	0
Receiving
Player	TGT	REC	YDS	TD	LNG
Essex Johnson		1	23	0	23
Doug Dressler		6	26	0	11
Bob Trumpy		3	43	0	20
Chip Myers		3	26	0	11
CLE
Passing
Player	C/A	YDS	TD	INT	SK	RTG
Bill Nelsen	14/28	224	2	2	0	71.1
Rushing
Player	ATT	YDS	TD	LNG	FUM
Bill Nelsen	3	-6	0	0	0
Leroy Kelly	23	127	2	27	0
Bo Scott	12	61	0	35	0
Receiving
Player	TGT	REC	YDS	TD	LNG
Bo Scott		1	6	0	6
Frank Pitts		5	103	1	53
Fair Hooker		5	80	1	39
Milt Morin		3	35	0	14

Defensive Stats

Player	TCK	SOLO	SK	INT	PD	QBH	FF	FR
CIN
Al Beauchamp			0	2			0	0
CLE
Player	TCK	SOLO	SK	INT	PD	QBH	FF	FR
Ernie Kellermann			0	1			0	0

Kicking & Punting

Player	XP	FG	PNT	PNT YDS	AVG	LNG
CIN
Horst Muhlmann	3/3	2/3	0	0	-	-
Dave Lewis	-	-	5	229	45.8	51
CLE
Player	XP	FG	PNT	PNT YDS	AVG	LNG
Don Cockroft	4/4	1/1	5	211	42.2	59

Return Stats

Player	KR	KR YDS	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR TD
CIN
Speedy Thomas	0	0	0	2	2	0
Lemar Parrish	0	0	0	1	16	0
Paul Robinson	3	71	0	0	0	0
Fred Willis	3	49	0	0	0	0
CLE
Player	KR	KR YDS	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR TD
Leroy Kelly	0	0	0	2	10	0
Ken Brown	2	50	0	0	0	0
Stan Brown	1	24	0	0	0	0

Starting Lineups

CIN

QBVirgil Carter

RBFred Willis

RBDoug Dressler

WRChip Myers

TEBob Trumpy

TEBruce Coslet

LTRufus Mayes

LGSteve Lawson

CBob Johnson

RGPat Matson

RTVern Holland

CIN at CLE, 1971 NFL game