Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0 Cleveland Browns 20
Sunday 13 November 1983 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Tom Brookshier and Charlie Waters
The Bucs lost more than a game in Cleveland as they also lost
star running back James Wilder for the season when he broke a
pair of ribs on a third quarter run. This was also another game in
which the kicking game let them down as trailing 10-0, the Bucs
had a nine-minute 2nd quarter drive stall inside the Brown's five-
yard line only for Bill Capece to miss the fieldgoal wide right. A
few minutes after, he missed another from 31 yards and the Bucs
never threatened to score again.
GAME SCORING
CLE
8:53-1Q
Bahr FG27
CLE
1:23-1Q
Pruitt 1 run (Bahr kick)
CLE
6:55-3Q
Bahr FG42
CLE
3:29-4Q
Pruitt 1 run (Bahr kick)
GAME REPORTS
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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Wilder 19-62, Thompson 1-4, Carter 1-0.
BROWNS: Pruitt 23-60, Green 6-23, Sipe 4-12, Davis 2-5, Walker 2-4,
Adams 1-2, Belk 1-(-5).
PASSING
BUCS: Thompson 31-17-182-0-0.
BROWNS: Sipe 26-14-174-0-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: House 5-110, J.Bell 4-34, Wilder 4-10, Carter 2-14, Carver 1-10,
Armstrong 1-4.
BROWNS: Pruitt 4-26, Newsome 3-81, Walker 2-25, Adams 2-22, Green
1-8, Logan 1-7, Jones 1-5.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: none.
BROWNS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Smith 1-22, Morton 1-21, Spradlin 1-7.
BROWNS: Walker 1-28.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Tyler 1-8, T.Bell 0-0.
BROWNS: Hall 3-19.
SACKS
BUCS: none.
BROWNS: Puzzoli 1-7, Golic 0.5-5, Camp 0.5-5.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
LDE
78 Cannon
LG
60 Grimes
NT
76 Logan
C
50 Wilson
RDE
63 Selmon
RG
62 Farrell
LOLB
51 Judie
RT
70 Thomas
LILB
58 Davis
TE
82 J Bell
RILB
52 Brantley
WR
89 House
ROLB
53 Green
WR
87 Carter
LCB
23 Castille
FB
46 Armstrong
SS
33 Cotney
RB
32 Wilder
FS
43 Reece
QB
14 Thompson
RCB
21 Holt
PLAYED
1 Morton, 3 Capece, 5 Garcia, 22 Smith, 24 Morris, 28 Carver, 41
Thomas, 54 Wood, 55 Spradlin, 56 Thompson, 57 Leonard, 64 Lowry,
66 Reese, 69 Arbubakrr, 72 Snell, 77 Bujnoch, 81 Tyler, 83 T Bell, 85
Witte, 86 Obradovich, 90 White
DID NOT PLAY
7 Komlo, 11 Golsteyn, 68 Yarno, 74 Sanders
INACTIVES
26 Owens, 88 Giles
VIDEO CLIPS
Kevin House set up a scoring chance with a big reception
Bill Capece missed a pair of short fieldgoals that killed all momentum
Hugh Green had a fumble return in the second half for a spark of hope
