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1963 Cleveland Browns Statistics
Team Record: 10-4
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's East Division
Coach: Blanton Collier (10-4)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
1963 Cleveland Browns Results
The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League ended the 1963 season with a record of 10 wins and 4 losses, finishing second in the NFL's East Division.
The Browns piled up points with 343 points, and the solid defense allowed 262. Jim Brown powered the ground game, running for a 1,863 yards for Cleveland.
Frank Ryan threw for 2,026 yards. Gary Collins topped pass catchers, snagging 43 passes for 674 yards.
Larry Benz and Vince Costello each seized 7 opponent throws.
Blanton Collier coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Ryan | 256 | 135 | 52.7 | 2026 | 7.9 | 25 | 9.8 | 13 | 5.1 | 83 | 90.4 |
Jim Ninowski | 61 | 29 | 47.5 | 423 | 6.9 | 2 | 3.3 | 6 | 9.8 | 70 | 41.9 |
Jim Brown | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Lou Groza | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Totals | 322 | 164 | 50.9 | 2449 | 7.6 | 27 | 8.4 | 20 | 6.2 | 83 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Brown | 291 | 1863 | 6.4 | 80 | 12 |
Ernie Green | 87 | 526 | 6.0 | 72 | 0 |
Frank Ryan | 62 | 224 | 3.6 | 25 | 2 |
Ken Webb | 12 | 58 | 4.8 | 19 | 0 |
Charlie Scales | 2 | -3 | -1.5 | 2 | 1 |
Bobby Franklin | 1 | -10 | -10.0 | -10 | 0 |
Jim Ninowski | 5 | -19 | -3.8 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 460 | 2639 | 5.7 | 80 | 15 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gary Collins | 43 | 674 | 15.7 | 49 | 13 |
Johnny Brewer | 29 | 454 | 15.7 | 55 | 0 |
Ernie Green | 28 | 305 | 10.9 | 35 | 3 |
Jim Brown | 24 | 268 | 11.2 | 83 | 3 |
Rich Kreitling | 22 | 386 | 17.5 | 45 | 6 |
Tom Hutchinson | 9 | 244 | 27.1 | 70 | 0 |
Ray Renfro | 4 | 82 | 20.5 | 39 | 1 |
Bobby Crespino | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 18 | 1 |
Ken Webb | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 5 | 0 |
Charlie Scales | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Frank Ryan | -1 | 0 | |||
Totals | 164 | 2449 | 14.9 | 83 | 27 |
Kicking:
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gary Collins | 54 | 2160 | 40.0 | 73 |
Totals | 54 | 2160 | 40.0 | 73 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Shorter | 7 | 134 | 19.1 | 52 | 0 |
Ernie Green | 6 | 79 | 13.2 | 55 | 0 |
Jim Shofner | 9 | 41 | 4.6 | 15 | 0 |
Bernie Parrish | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 21 | 0 |
Totals | 25 | 285 | 11.4 | 55 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charlie Scales | 16 | 432 | 27.0 | 50 | 0 |
Ernie Green | 18 | 394 | 21.9 | 34 | 0 |
Jim Shorter | 9 | 219 | 24.3 | 49 | 0 |
Bobby Franklin | 2 | 33 | 16.5 | 19 | 0 |
Ken Webb | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
Sam Tidmore | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
John Morrow | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
Larry Benz | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Shofner | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 50 | 1099 | 22.0 | 50 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vince Costello | 7 | 118 | 16.9 | 31 | 0 |
Larry Benz | 7 | 114 | 16.3 | 38 | 0 |
Ross Fichtner | 2 | 75 | 37.5 | 39 | 1 |
Bobby Franklin | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 14 | 0 |
Galen Fiss | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 8 | 0 |
Paul Wiggin | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
Jim Houston | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 22 | 343 | 15.6 | 39 | 1 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Ryan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ernie Green | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |||
Paul Wiggin | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Houston | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bernie Parrish | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Shorter | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Gene Hickerson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dick Schafrath | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ross Fichtner | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Larry Benz | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Stan Sczurek | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Sam Tidmore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
John Brown | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Frank Parker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Brown | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jim Shofner | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bobby Franklin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Charlie Scales | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jim Ninowski | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 25 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 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 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 | ||||||||
Lou Groza | 15 | 40 | 0 | 85 | ||||||||||
Gary Collins | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | |||||||||
Rich Kreitling | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||||
Ernie Green | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
Frank Ryan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Charlie Scales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Ross Fichtner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Ray Renfro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Bobby Crespino | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Totals | 15 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 343 |