| Boston Patriots at Denver Broncos Game Statistics |
| Date: September 29, 1968 Location: Denver, CO |
| Venue: Bears Stadium Attendance: 37024 |
| Weather: Mostly Cloudy Temp: 60 F Humidty: 58% Wind: 6 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Patriots | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| Denver Broncos | 3 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 17 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | BOS | DEN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denver Broncos | Bobby Howfield 27 FG | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | Boston Patriots | Jim Whalen 14 pass from Mike Taliaferro (Gino Cappelletti kick) | 7 | 3 |
| 2 | Denver Broncos | Fran Lynch 1 run (Bobby Howfield kick) | 7 | 10 |
| 2 | Boston Patriots | Gino Cappelletti 22 FG | 10 | 10 |
| 3 | Boston Patriots | Larry Garron 1 run (Gino Cappelletti kick) | 17 | 10 |
| 4 | Boston Patriots | Gino Cappelletti 7 FG | 20 | 10 |
| 4 | Denver Broncos | Marlin Briscoe 12 run (Bobby Howfield kick) | 20 | 17 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BOS | Larry Garron | 20 | 34 | 1.7 | 1 | |
| BOS | Gene Thomas | 16 | 34 | 2.1 | 0 | |
| BOS | Mike Taliaferro | 3 | 2 | 0.7 | 0 | |
| BOS | R.C. Gamble | 2 | -1 | -0.5 | 0 | |
| DEN | Marlin Briscoe | 5 | 51 | 10.2 | 1 | |
| DEN | Floyd Little | 11 | 36 | 3.3 | 9 | 0 |
| DEN | Fran Lynch | 7 | 25 | 3.6 | 1 | |
| DEN | Terry Erwin | 5 | 21 | 4.2 | 0 | |
| DEN | Jim LeClair | 4 | 16 | 4.0 | 0 | |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| BOS | Mike Taliaferro | 30 | 11 | 36.7 | 0 | 153 | 5.1 | 1 | 65.0 | |||
| DEN | Jim LeClair | 17 | 5 | 29.4 | 2 | 92 | 5.4 | 0 | 10.0 | |||
| DEN | Marlin Briscoe | 6 | 2 | 33.3 | 0 | 43 | 7.2 | 0 | 59.7 | |||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BOS | Jim Whalen | 4 | 62 | 15.5 | 1 | |
| BOS | Jim Colclough | 3 | 39 | 13.0 | 0 | |
| BOS | Gene Thomas | 2 | 39 | 19.5 | 0 | |
| BOS | Aaron Marsh | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
| BOS | Larry Garron | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
| DEN | Eric Crabtree | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 0 | |
| DEN | Billy Van Heusen | 2 | 71 | 35.5 | 0 | |
| DEN | Fran Lynch | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 22 | 0 |
| DEN | Tom Beer | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BOS | Ed Philpott | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| BOS | Leroy Mitchell | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| BOS | Bob Scarpitto | 9 | 347 | 38.6 | 1 | |
| DEN | Billy Van Heusen | 8 | 358 | 44.8 | 0 | |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BOS | Willie Porter | 4 | 38 | 9.5 | 0 | ||
| BOS | Daryl Johnson | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 | |
| DEN | Charlie Greer | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| BOS | Daryl Johnson | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 26 | 0 |
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