1962 Cleveland Browns Statistics
Team Record: 7-6-1
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's East Division
Coach: Paul Brown (7-6-1)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
1962 Cleveland Browns Results
The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League ended the 1962 season with a record of 7 wins and 6 losses and 1 ties, finishing third in the NFL's East Division.
The Browns scored 291 points, and the rigid defensive squad conceded 257. Frank Ryan tossed for 1,541 yards, and Jim Ninowski took a significant amount of snaps, too. Jim Brown topped the receiving corps, snagging 47 passes, while Rich Kreitling added 659 receiving yards, while Ray Renfro contributed to the receiving game also.
Jim Brown ran for a team-leading 996 yards for Cleveland.
Ross Fichtner intercepted 7 errant tosses from the opposition.
Paul Brown coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Ryan | 194 | 112 | 57.7 | 1541 | 7.9 | 10 | 5.2 | 7 | 3.6 | 65 | 85.4 |
Jim Ninowski | 173 | 87 | 50.3 | 1178 | 6.8 | 7 | 4.0 | 8 | 4.6 | 53 | 66.6 |
Jim Brown | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 28 | 14.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 28 | 95.8 |
Charlie Scales | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Totals | 370 | 200 | 54.1 | 2747 | 7.4 | 17 | 4.6 | 16 | 4.3 | 65 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Brown | 230 | 996 | 4.3 | 31 | 13 |
Frank Ryan | 42 | 242 | 5.8 | 39 | 1 |
Charlie Scales | 56 | 239 | 4.3 | 27 | 3 |
Tommy Wilson | 46 | 141 | 3.1 | 17 | 1 |
Ernie Green | 31 | 139 | 4.5 | 45 | 0 |
Jim Ninowski | 9 | 15 | 1.7 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 414 | 1772 | 4.3 | 45 | 18 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Brown | 47 | 517 | 11.0 | 53 | 5 |
Rich Kreitling | 44 | 659 | 15.0 | 53 | 3 |
Ray Renfro | 31 | 638 | 20.6 | 65 | 4 |
Johnny Brewer | 22 | 290 | 13.2 | 37 | 2 |
Ernie Green | 17 | 194 | 11.4 | 65 | 1 |
Gary Collins | 11 | 153 | 13.9 | 29 | 2 |
Leon Clarke | 10 | 106 | 10.6 | 22 | 0 |
Tommy Wilson | 8 | 110 | 13.8 | 42 | 0 |
Charlie Scales | 8 | 67 | 8.4 | 22 | 0 |
Bobby Crespino | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 9 | 0 |
Totals | 200 | 2747 | 13.7 | 65 | 17 |
Kicking:
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gary Collins | 45 | 1926 | 42.8 | 64 |
Totals | 45 | 1926 | 42.8 | 64 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Howard Cassady | 7 | 47 | 6.7 | 13 | 0 |
Jim Shofner | 8 | 33 | 4.1 | 9 | 0 |
Ernie Green | 5 | 31 | 6.2 | 10 | 0 |
Totals | 20 | 111 | 5.6 | 13 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tommy Wilson | 11 | 307 | 27.9 | 46 | 0 |
Ernie Green | 13 | 250 | 19.2 | 41 | 0 |
Howard Cassady | 10 | 233 | 23.3 | 34 | 0 |
Charlie Scales | 9 | 154 | 17.1 | 22 | 0 |
Sam Tidmore | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 31 | 0 |
Gary Collins | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 46 | 983 | 21.4 | 46 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ross Fichtner | 7 | 76 | 10.9 | 31 | 0 |
Jim Shofner | 4 | 86 | 21.5 | 35 | 0 |
Galen Fiss | 4 | 81 | 20.2 | 40 | 0 |
Vince Costello | 3 | 40 | 13.3 | 22 | 0 |
Bernie Parrish | 2 | 37 | 18.5 | 37 | 0 |
Don Fleming | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 13 | 0 |
Bobby Franklin | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Floyd Peters | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Totals | 24 | 352 | 14.7 | 40 | 0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Shofner | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Galen Fiss | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ernie Green | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | |||
Paul Wiggin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Brown | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Rich Kreitling | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||
Jim Ninowski | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Gain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Don Fleming | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Floyd Peters | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Charlie Scales | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Vince Costello | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 0 | |
Tommy Wilson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Frank Ryan | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Leon Clarke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 24 | 20 | 40 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
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Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Jim Brown | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | ||||||||
Lou Groza | 14 | 33 | 0 | 75 | ||||||||||
Ray Renfro | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||||||
Charlie Scales | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Rich Kreitling | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Gary Collins | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Johnny Brewer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Vince Costello | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Ernie Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Tommy Wilson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Frank Ryan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Totals | 18 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 291 |