1976 Cleveland Browns Statistics
National Football League (NFL)
Team Record: 9-5
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's Central Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Forrest Gregg (9-5)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
1976 Cleveland Browns RosterTeam Record: 9-5
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's Central Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Forrest Gregg (9-5)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
1976 Cleveland Browns Results
The Cleveland Browns of the National Football League ended the 1976 season with a record of 9 wins and 5 losses, finishing third in the NFL's Central Division of the American Football Conference.
The Browns racked up 267 points, but the defensive squad conceded 287. Greg Pruitt ran for a team-leading 1,000 yards for Cleveland.
Brian Sipe passed for 2,113 yards. Reggie Rucker snagged 49 passes for 676 yards, while Paul Warfield and Greg Pruitt contributed to the receiving game as well.
Thom Darden picked off 7 errant tosses from the opposition.
Forrest Gregg coached the team.
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Passing:
| Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Sipe | 312 | 178 | 57.1 | 2113 | 6.8 | 17 | 5.4 | 14 | 4.5 | 52 | 16 | 142 | 77.3 |
| Mike Phipps | 37 | 20 | 54.1 | 146 | 3.9 | 3 | 8.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 90.6 |
| Dave Mays | 20 | 9 | 45.0 | 101 | 5.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5.0 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 39.8 |
| Greg Pruitt | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 39 | 13.0 | 1 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 149.3 |
| Don Cockroft | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
| Totals | 373 | 209 | 56.0 | 2399 | 6.4 | 21 | 5.6 | 15 | 4.0 | 52 | 19 | 152 |
Rushing:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Pruitt | 209 | 1000 | 4.8 | 64 | 4 |
| Cleo Miller | 153 | 613 | 4.0 | 21 | 4 |
| Larry Poole | 78 | 356 | 4.6 | 26 | 1 |
| Mike Pruitt | 52 | 138 | 2.7 | 18 | 0 |
| Brian Sipe | 18 | 71 | 3.9 | 17 | 0 |
| Brian Duncan | 11 | 44 | 4.0 | 11 | 0 |
| Reggie Rucker | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 27 | 0 |
| Mike Phipps | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 24 | 0 |
| Dave Mays | 5 | 14 | 2.8 | 6 | 0 |
| Paul Warfield | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Totals | 533 | 2295 | 4.3 | 64 | 9 |
Receiving:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reggie Rucker | 49 | 676 | 13.8 | 45 | 8 |
| Greg Pruitt | 45 | 341 | 7.6 | 27 | 1 |
| Paul Warfield | 38 | 613 | 16.1 | 37 | 6 |
| Cleo Miller | 16 | 145 | 9.1 | 38 | 0 |
| Oscar Roan | 15 | 174 | 11.6 | 23 | 4 |
| Larry Poole | 14 | 70 | 5.0 | 21 | 0 |
| Steve Holden | 8 | 128 | 16.0 | 26 | 1 |
| Mike Pruitt | 8 | 26 | 3.2 | 15 | 0 |
| Brian Duncan | 6 | 49 | 8.2 | 17 | 1 |
| Dave Logan | 5 | 104 | 20.8 | 52 | 0 |
| Gary Parris | 5 | 73 | 14.6 | 20 | 0 |
| Totals | 209 | 2399 | 11.5 | 52 | 21 |
Kicking:
| Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Cockroft | 30 | 27 | 90.0 | 28 | 15 | 53.6 | 72 |
| Brian Sipe | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 31 | 28 | 90.3 | 28 | 15 | 53.6 | 73 |
Punting:
Punt Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Holden | 31 | 205 | 6.6 | 38 | 0 |
| Ricky Feacher | 13 | 142 | 10.9 | 49 | 0 |
| Willie Miller | 5 | 22 | 4.4 | 8 | 0 |
| Totals | 49 | 369 | 7.5 | 49 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Holden | 19 | 461 | 24.3 | 44 | 0 |
| Ricky Feacher | 14 | 311 | 22.2 | 33 | 0 |
| Brian Duncan | 6 | 145 | 24.2 | 27 | 0 |
| Mike Pruitt | 6 | 106 | 17.7 | 30 | 0 |
| Larry Poole | 3 | 62 | 20.7 | 21 | 0 |
| Greg Pruitt | 1 | 27 | 27.0 | 27 | 0 |
| Cleo Miller | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| Dick Ambrose | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
| Robert Jackson | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
| Dave Graf | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
| Willie Miller | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 54 | 1182 | 21.9 | 44 | 0 |
Interceptions:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thom Darden | 7 | 73 | 10.4 | 21 | 0 |
| Clarence Scott | 4 | 11 | 2.8 | 5 | 0 |
| Ron Bolton | 3 | 76 | 25.3 | 39 | 1 |
| Bob Babich | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 21 | 0 |
| Terry Brown | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 24 | 0 |
| Charlie Hall | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| Neal Craig | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| Gerald Irons | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jerry Sherk | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 21 | 234 | 11.1 | 39 | 1 |
Defense and Fumbles:
| Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry Poole | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Clarence Scott | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ricky Feacher | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Robert Jackson | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cleo Miller | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Barry Darrow | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Brian Sipe | 7 | 2 | -21 | 0 | |||
| Doug Dieken | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Charlie Hall | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oscar Roan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Don Cockroft | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Jerry Sherk | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Joe Jones | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Pete Adams | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mike St. Clair | 0 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Henry Sheppard | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Terry Brown | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bob Babich | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thom Darden | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Willie Miller | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Steve Holden | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Reggie Rucker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Brian Duncan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Dave Mays | 1 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mike Phipps | 2 | 0 | -7 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Paul Warfield | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Greg Pruitt | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mike Pruitt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 0 | 0 | 45 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
| Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
| Don Cockroft | 15 | 27 | 0 | 72 | ||||||||||
| Reggie Rucker | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | ||||||||
| Paul Warfield | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||
| Greg Pruitt | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||||||
| Cleo Miller | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||||
| Oscar Roan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||||||
| Steve Holden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| Joe Jones | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Larry Poole | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| Brian Duncan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
| Ron Bolton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Mack Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Brian Sipe | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Totals | 9 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 267 |
