1968 Denver Broncos (AFL) Scores, Roster, Stats , Coaches, Draft

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Score		Location	Venue	Attendance
Sat	8/10/1968	H	Cincinnati Bengals	15-13	W	Denver, CO	University of Denver Stadium	13841
Sat	8/17/1968	H	Minnesota Vikings	16-39	L	Denver, CO	University of Denver Stadium	20901
Fri	8/23/1968	H	San Francisco 49ers	6-22	L	Denver, CO	University of Denver Stadium	22254
Fri	8/30/1968	N	San Diego Chargers	3-6	L	San Antonio, TX	Alamo Stadium	10328
Sat	9/7/1968	N	Oakland Raiders	7-23	L	Portland, OR	Multnomah Stadium	18031
Sun	9/15/1968	A	Cincinnati Bengals	10-24	L	Cincinnati, OH	Nippert Stadium	25049
Sun	9/22/1968	A	Kansas City Chiefs	2-34	L	Kansas City, MO	Municipal Stadium	45821
Sun	9/29/1968	H	Boston Patriots	17-20	L	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	37024
Sun	10/6/1968	H	Cincinnati Bengals	10-7	W	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	41257
Sun	10/13/1968	A	New York Jets	21-13	W	New York, NY	Shea Stadium	62052
Sun	10/20/1968	A	San Diego Chargers	24-55	L	San Diego, CA	San Diego Stadium	42953
Sun	10/27/1968	H	Miami Dolphins	21-14	W	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	44115
Sun	11/3/1968	A	Boston Patriots	35-14	W	Boston, MA	Fenway Park	18304
Sun	11/10/1968	H	Oakland Raiders	7-43	L	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	50002
Sun	11/17/1968	A	Houston Oilers	17-38	L	Houston, TX	Astrodome	36075
Sun	11/24/1968	H	Buffalo Bills	34-32	W	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	35142
Sun	12/1/1968	H	San Diego Chargers	23-47	L	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	35312
Sun	12/8/1968	A	Oakland Raiders	27-33	L	Oakland, CA	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum	47754
Sat	12/14/1968	H	Kansas City Chiefs	7-30	L	Denver, CO	Bears Stadium	38463

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Jay Bachman	65	OG	6-3	247	23	Cincinnati	6	0
Tom Beer	85	TE	6-4	232	24	Detroit Mercy; Houston	14	13
Marlin Briscoe	15	QB	5-10	178	23	Nebraska-Omaha	11	5
Sam Brunelli	72	LOT	6-1	263	25	Northern Colorado	14	14
Tom Cichowski	78	OT	6-4	243	24	Maryland	2	0
Dave Costa	63	RDT	6-2	257	27	Northeastern Colorado JC; Utah	14	14
Larry Cox	77	DE	6-2	250	25	Abilene Christian	9	0
Eric Crabtree	41	FL	5-11	186	24	Pittsburgh	14	14
Carl Cunningham	50	LLB	6-3	235	24	Houston	14	14
Mike Current	74	ROT	6-4	267	23	Ohio State	14	14
Al Denson	88	SE	6-2	208	26	Florida A&M	8	7
Wallace Dickey	71	OT	6-3	260	27	Victoria JC; Texas State	10	0
Joe DiVito	12	QB-P	6-2	205	23	Boston College	3	0
Pete Duranko	55	RDE	6-2	249	25	Notre Dame	14	12
Terry Erwin	46	RB	6-0	190	22	Boston College	9	2
Garrett Ford	32	RB	6-2	225	23	West Virginia	14	4
Fred Forsberg	52	RLB	6-1	237	24	Washington	13	8
George Gaiser	64	ROG	6-4	255	23	Southern Methodist	10	7
Drake Garrett	23	RCB-RS	5-9	183	22	Michigan State	14	13
George Goeddeke	67	LOG	6-3	250	23	Notre Dame	14	14
Charlie Greer	20	LCB	6-0	203	22	Colorado	14	14
Mike Haffner	84	FL-TE	6-2	205	26	UCLA	14	0
Wally Highsmith	56	C	6-4	238	25	Florida A&M	14	1
Gus Hollomon	34	LS	6-3	195	23	Houston	13	4
Bobby Howfield	3	K	5-9	181	32	none	12	0
John Huard	57	MLB	6-0	220	24	Maine	14	14
Bob Humphreys	2	K	6-1	240	28	none	2	0
Jerry Inman	62	LDT	6-3	255	28	Boise JC; Oregon	7	4
Rich Jackson	87	LDE	6-2	258	27	Southern University	14	13
Pete Jaquess	43	LS-RCB	6-0	182	28	Eastern New Mexico	13	11
Jimmy Jones	80	SE	6-2	189	27	Trinidad State JC; Wisconsin	13	0
Larry Kaminski	58	C	6-2	244	23	Purdue	14	13
Ronnie Lamb	40	RB	6-2	227	25	South Carolina	3	3
Gordon Lambert	53	LB	6-5	245	23	West Virginia; Tennessee-Martin	10	0
Jim LeClair	10	QB	6-1	208	24	Long Island-Post	3	2
Jack Lentz	28	RS	6-0	195	23	Holy Cross	12	6
Hal Lewis	48	DB	6-0	185	24	Arizona State	1	0
Hub Lindsey	33	RB	5-11	196	23	Wyoming	3	0
Floyd Little	44	RB	5-10	196	26	Syracuse	11	10
Tommy Luke	25	RS	6-0	190	24	Mississippi	7	1
Fran Lynch	22	RB	6-1	203	23	Oklahoma Military Academy JC; Hofstra	9	4
Brendan McCarthy	40	RB	6-3	220	23	Boston College	7	5
John McCormick	11	QB	6-1	201	31	Boston College; Massachusetts	1	1
Rex Mirich	75	LDT	6-4	251	27	Northern Arizona	14	10
Alex Moore	48	RB	6-0	195	23	Norfolk State	3	0
Bobby Moten	86	TE	6-4	212	25	Bishop	3	0
Chip Myrtle	89	RLB	6-4	225	23	Maryland	13	1
Tom Oberg	27	RS-LS	6-0	185	23	Oregon State; Portland State	9	6
Frank Richter	58	RLB	6-3	230	24	Georgia	11	5
Paul Smith	70	LDE-RDE	6-3	254	23	New Mexico	12	3
Jesse Stokes	21	DB	6-0	190	24	Corpus Christi	2	0
Steve Tensi	13	QB	6-5	214	26	Florida State	7	6
Dave Tobey	51	LB	6-3	230	25	Oregon	7	0
Billy Van Heusen	42	SE-P	6-1	200	22	Maryland	13	7
Bob Vaughan	61	OG	6-4	240	23	Mississippi	1	0
Dave Washington	83	TE	6-4	228	29	Santa Monica JC; Southern California	2	1
Bob Young	60	ROG	6-2	269	26	Texas; Texas State; Howard Payne	14	7

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
2	31	Curley Culp	DE	Arizona State
3	58	Garrett Ford	RB	West Virginia
3	75	Bob Vaughan	T	Mississippi
4	91	Gordon Lambert	LB	Tennessee-Martin
4	102	Drake Garrett	DB	Michigan State
4	111	Gus Hollomon	DB	Houston
8	196	Steve Holloway	DB	Weber State
9	222	Paul Smith	LB	New Mexico
10	252	Bobby Langford	T	Middle Tennessee State
12	304	Bobby Hendrix	T	Mississippi
13	330	Charlie Greer	DB	Colorado
14	357	Marlin Briscoe	RB	Nebraska-Omaha
15	386	Jeff Kuhman	LB	Vermont
16	412	Adin Brown	LB	William & Mary
17	438	Steve Grady	RB	Southern California

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	53	79	61	62	255
Opponents Totals	73	115	86	130	404

TEAM STATS	TOP	1st Downs	FDR	FDP	FDX	3rd Down Efficiency	4th Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		217	75	124	18	/ %	/ %	73	772
Opponents Totals		251	94	145	12	/ %	/ %	64	750

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	X2	X2A	FG	FGA	PCT	SAF	PTS
Bobby Howfield	0	30	30	100.0	0	0	9	18	50.0	0	57
Eric Crabtree	5	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	30
Al Denson	5	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	30
Floyd Little	5	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	30
Fran Lynch	4	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	24
Marlin Briscoe	3	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	18
Billy Van Heusen	3	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	18
Jimmy Jones	2	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	12
Brendan McCarthy	2	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	12
Tom Beer	1	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	6
Garrett Ford	1	0	0		0	0	0	0		0	6
Mike Haffner	1	0	0		0	1	0	0		0	6
Bob Humphreys	0	1	1	100.0	0	0	1	5	20.0	0	4
Chip Myrtle	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		1	2
Team Totals	32	31	31	100.0	0	1	10	23	43.5	1	255
Opponents Totals	48	47	47	100.0	1	1	21	34	61.8	2	404

FIELD GOALS	MADE	ATT	PCT	BL	LG	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+
Bobby Howfield	9	18	50.0	0	48	3/3	2/4	2/3	2/8	0/0
Bob Humphreys	1	5	20.0	1	33	0/0	0/2	1/1	0/2	0/0
Team Totals	10	23	43.5	1	48	3/3	2/6	3/4	2/10	0/0
Opponents Totals	21	34	61.8			6/	9/	3/	3/	0/

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Floyd Little	158	584	3.7	55t	3
Marlin Briscoe	41	308	7.5	34	3
Fran Lynch	66	221	3.3	19	4
Garrett Ford	41	186	4.5	23	1
Brendan McCarthy	28	89	3.2	12	0
Terry Erwin	24	76	3.2	9	0
Ronnie Lamb	22	63	2.9	17	0
Jim LeClair	12	40	3.3	12	0
Alex Moore	4	22	5.5	10	0
Hub Lindsey	4	17	4.3	7	0
Billy Van Heusen	1	6	6.0	6	0
Mike Haffner	2	2	1.0	1	0
Steve Tensi	6	2	0.3	3	0
Joe Divito	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0
Jimmy Jones	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0
Team Totals	411	1614	3.9	55t	11
Opponents Totals	457	1861	4.1	65t	20

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Marlin Briscoe	224	93	41.5	118	1589	7.1	17.1	66t	14	6.3	13	5.8				62.9
Steve Tensi	119	48	40.3	63	709	6.0	14.8	72t	5	4.2	8	6.7	5	42	667	46.5
Jim LeClair	54	27	50.0	22	401	7.4	14.9	50	1	1.9	5	9.3	12	120	281	42.3
John McCormick	19	8	42.1	10	89	4.7	11.1	18	0	0.0	1	5.3	2	12	77	34.8
Mike Haffner	1	1	100.0	0	18	18.0	18.0	18	0	0.0	0	0.0				118.8
Fran Lynch	2	1	50.0	1	4	2.0	4.0	4	0	0.0	0	0.0				56.3
Joe Divito	6	1	16.7	5	16	2.7	16.0	16	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	30	-14	39.6
Floyd Little	2	0	0.0	2	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
Team Totals	427	179	41.9	221	2826	6.6	15.8	72t	20	4.7	27	6.3	51	469	2357	53.9
Opponents Totals	429	217	50.6	192	3419	8.0	15.8	94t	25	5.8	20	4.7	31	256	3163	77.4

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Eric Crabtree	35	601	17.2	72t	5
Al Denson	34	586	17.2	44t	5
Tom Beer	20	276	13.8	31	1
Billy Van Heusen	19	353	18.6	50t	3
Floyd Little	19	331	17.4	66t	1
Jimmy Jones	13	190	14.6	60t	2
Mike Haffner	12	232	19.3	52	1
Brendan McCarthy	7	69	9.9	40t	2
Garrett Ford	6	40	6.7	12	0
Fran Lynch	4	52	13.0	22	0
Alex Moore	3	35	11.7	16	0
Ronnie Lamb	3	10	3.3	4	0
Terry Erwin	2	21	10.5	17	0
Chip Myrtle	1	18	18.0	18	0
Dave Washington	1	12	12.0	12	0
Team Totals	179	2826	15.8	72t	20
Opponents Totals	217	3419	15.8	94t	25

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Pete Jaquess	5	64	12.8	28	0
Charlie Greer	4	18	4.5	14	0
Tom Oberg	3	17	5.7	16	0
John Huard	2	35	17.5	26	0
Drake Garrett	2	6	3.0	6	0
Gus Hollomon	1	16	16.0	16	0
Fred Forsberg	1	6	6.0	6	0
Carl Cunningham	1	3	3.0	3	0
Jack Lentz	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	20	165	8.3	28	0
Opponents Totals	27	328	12.1		3

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	RYDS
Billy Van Heusen	88	3853	43.8	68	0
Joe Divito	8	242	30.3	47	1
Team Totals	96	4095	42.7	68	1	282
Opponents Totals	76	3271	43.0	87		332

PUNT RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Floyd Little	24	5	261	10.9	67t	1
Charlie Greer	9	1	53	5.9	12	0
Tommy Luke	3	1	13	4.3	10	0
Pete Jaquess	2	7	5	2.5	5	0
Gus Hollomon	0	2	0			0
Billy Van Heusen	0	1	0			0
Team Totals	38	17	332	8.7	67t	1
Opponents Totals	46		282	6.1		0

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	YDS	AVG	LG
Floyd Little	26	649	25.0	89
Gus Hollomon	7	194	27.7	67
Jesse Stokes	5	106	21.2	30
Alex Moore	4	74	18.5	28
Drake Garrett	3	77	25.7	30
Hub Lindsey	3	72	24.0	29
Terry Erwin	3	55	18.3	25
Charlie Greer	2	41	20.5	32
Tommy Luke	2	34	17.0	20
Fred Forsberg	2	16	8.0	12
Eric Crabtree	1	30	30.0	30
Wallace Dickey	1	13	13.0	13
Pete Jaquess	1	0	0.0	0
Team Totals	60	1361	22.7	89
Opponents Totals	29	704	24.3

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS
Tom Beer	0	0	1	0	1	0
Marlin Briscoe	3		0	0	0	0
Dave Costa	0	0	0	2	2	0
Joe DiVito	1		1	0	1	0
Terry Erwin	1		0	0	0	0
Garrett Ford	1		0	0	0	0
George Gaiser	0	0	1	0	1	0
Drake Garrett	1		0	1	1	0
George Goeddeke	0	0	2	0	2	0
Charlie Greer	1		1	0	1	0
Gus Hollomon	2		0	1	1	0
Jerry Inman	0	0	0	1	1	0
Pete Jaquess	1		0	0	0	0
Larry Kaminski	0	0	1	0	1	0
Ronnie Lamb	1		1	0	1	-1
Jim LeClair	5		2	1	3	-27
Jack Lentz	0	0	0	1	1	0
Hub Lindsey	1		0	0	0	0
Floyd Little	6		3	0	3	0
Fran Lynch	1		1	0	1	0
Brendan McCarthy	2		0	0	0	0
Alex Moore	1		0	0	0	0
Tom Oberg	0	0	0	1	1	0
Frank Richter	0	0	0	1	1	0
Jesse Stokes	0	0	0	1	1	0
Billy Van Heusen	0	0	0	1	1	0
Bob Young	0	0	1	1	2	0
Team Totals	28	13	15	12	27	-28
Opponents Totals	24	12	12	13	25

Whitey Dovell	Offensive Line
Hunter Enis	Offensive Backs
Stan Jones	Defensive Line
Dick MacPherson	Defensive Backs
Sam Rutigliano	Receivers