Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7 Green Bay Packers 9
Sunday 29 October 1978 at Lambeau Field
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Lindsay Nelson and Paul Hornung
Chester Marcol's 48-yard fieldgoal with 41 seconds left put the
division leading Packers ahead of the Bucs in a close-fought
game. David Whitehurst drove Green Bay into scoring range,
hitting Ricky Odom on an 18-yard play on 4th and 10 with 1:25
remaining. The Bucs only had seven first downs and 170 yards
in total offense, nearly a third of which came on a bomb from
Doug Williams to Morris Owens to set up Ricky Bell's TD run.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
DE
60 Chambers
LG
64 Horton
DT
76 Pear
C
79 Wilson
DE
63 L Selmon
RG
72 Puetz
LOLB
57 Lewis
RT
70 Carlton
LILB
61 D Selmon
TE
88 Giles
RILB
54 Wood
WR
85 Owens
ROLB
56 Johnson
WR
83 Grant
LCB
45 White
FB
38 J Davis
RCB
40 Washington
RB
42 Bell
SS
33 Cotney
QB
12 Williams
FS
34 Brown
PLAYED
4 Green, 6 O'Donoghue, 23 Ragsdale, 25 Jordan, 32 L Carter, 46
Reece, 51 Nafziger, 53 Bonness, 55 Brown, 65 Johnson, 71 Crowder,
73 Hannah, 77 Kollar, 84 Levenseller, 86 Obradovich, 87 Mucker, 89
McKay
DID NOT PLAY
15 Rae, 19 Huff, 28 Maxson, 44 Cesare, 68 Medlin, 74 Freitas
GAME SCORING
GB
0:45-1Q
Middleton 2 run (kick failed)
TB
5:17-3Q
Bell 1 run (O'Donoghue kick)
GB
0:41-4Q
Marcol FG48
GAME REPORTS
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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Bell 20-30, Davis 9-28, Williams 5-14.
PACKERS: Middleton 20-37, Smith 10-29, Culbreath 9-23, Whitehurst 6-
2.
PASSING
BUCS: Williams 17-5-98-1-0.
PACKERS: Whitehurst 31-16-173-1-0, Lofton 1-0-0-0-0, Sproul 1-0-0-0-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Bell 2-21, Owens 1-53, Obradovich 1-14, Grant 1-10.
PACKERS: Middleton 6-45, Lofton 6-41, Thompson 3-47, Odom 2-36,
Culbreath 1-6, Smith 1-(-2).
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Washington 1-8.
PACKERS: Buchanon 1-0.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Carter 1-18, Reece 1-14.
PACKERS: none.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reece 5-23.
PACKERS: Odom 5-16.
SACKS
BUCS: Pear 1-8, L.Selmon 1-7.
PACKERS: none.
VIDEO CLIPS
Ricky Bell had the only Buccaneer touchdown of the game
This was set up by Morris Owens’ catch against triple coverage
Mike Washington had another interception
