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Birmingham 10 at Philadelphia 31


1983 Week 17 - Sunday, June 26, 1983
Birmingham Stallions(8-8) at Philadelphia Stars(14-2)(-6.5)
Attendance: 17,973

PHILADELPHIA(AP) - Allen Harvin ran for touchdowns of 1 and 19 yards and set up a score by Kelvin Bryant with a 44-yard option pass as Philadelphia built a 24-0 hung on to defeat the Birmingham Stallions 31-10 and improve their league-leading record to 15-2.

The Stars, who clinched the Atlantic Division title two weeks ago, played to a crowd of 15,585 at Veterans Stadium.

Highlights




	1	2	3	4	F
BIR	0	3	0	7   -   10
PHI    14      10	0	7   -   31

Scoring

PHI:Russell 7 yd pass from Fusina (Trout kick) - PHI 7, BIR 0

PHI:Harvin 19 yd run (Trout kick) - PHI 14, BIR 0

PHI:Trout 31 yd field goal - PHI 17, BIR 0

PHI:Bryant 2 yd run (Trout kick) - PHI 24, BIR 0

BIR:Norwood 34 yd field goal - PHI 24, BIR 3

PHI:Harvin 1 yd run (Trout kick) - PHI 31, BIR 3

BIR:Anderson 18 yd pass from Lane (Norwood kick) - PHI 31, BIR 10

Box Score

                             BIR            PHI
First Downs                   20             19
Rushes-Yards              29-136         36-164
Passing (A-C-Y-I)    43-20-223-3    34-16-235-0
Sacked-Yards Lost           3-18            1-8
Total Plays-Yards         75-351         71-391
Fumbles-Lost                 2-1            2-0
Penalties-Yards             4-30           4-25
Turnovers                      4              0
Time of Possession         27:00          33:00

Attendance = 17,973

BIRMINGHAM				     PHILADELPHIA
Passing     Att Cmp Yds In Td  Rate          Passing     Att Cmp Yds In Td  Rate
Lane         30  13 150  1  1  56.3          Fusina       16   9 122  0  1 101.6
Williams     13   7  83  2  0  34.0          Pisarkiewicz 15   6  69  0  0  54.6
                                             Harvin        1   1  44  0  0 118.8
                                             Krohn         2   0   0  0  0  39.6
 
Rushing     Att Yds  Ave TD                  Rushing     Att Yds  Ave TD
Talton       11  66  6.0  0                  Harvin       14  89  6.4  2
Gant          7  31  4.4  0                  Bryant       10  40  4.0  1
Johnson       5  20  4.0  0                  Anderson      5  24  4.8  0
Quarles       4  15  3.8  0                  Russell       2   9  4.5  0
Lane          1   3  3.0  0                  Pisarkiewicz  2   2  1.0  0
Williams      1   1  1.0  0                  Rodenberger   3   0  0.0  0
 

Receiving   Rec Yds  Ave TD                  Receiving   Rec Yds  Ave TD
Smith, J      8 113 14.1  0                  Fitzkee       5 105 21.0  0
Mason         2  31 15.5  0                  Collier       4 102 25.5  0
Quarles       2  28 14.0  0                  Bryant        3  14  2.8  0
Anderson      1  18 18.0  1                  Harvin        1   9  9.0  0
Gant          2  16  8.0  0                  Russell       1   7  7.0  1
Talton        4  15  3.8  0                  Anderson      1   4  4.0  0
Moy           1  12 12.0  0                  Dunek         1  -6 -6.0  0

Kick Returns   No Yds  Ave TD                Kick Returns   No Yds  Ave TD
Kincaid         2  43 21.5  0                Harvin          1  14 14.0  0
Johnson         1  16 16.0  0                Sutton          1   0  0.0  0
Grandjean       2  11  5.5  0                
 
Punt Returns   No Yds  Ave TD                Punt Returns   No Yds  Ave TD
Kincaid         2  11  5.5  0                Woerner         3  31 10.3  0
  
Kicking          Fg  Lg   Xp  Pts            Kicking          Fg  Lg   Xp  Pts
Norwood         1-2  34  1-1    4            Trout           1-2  31  4-4    7
                miss: 46                                     miss: 50

Punting        No Yds  Ave                   Punting        No Yds  Ave
Johnston        4 172 43.0                   Landeta         4 160 40.0

Sacks          Sk Yds                        Sacks          Sk Yds
Corker          2  18                        Case            1   6
Dokes           1  12                        Fielder       0.5   3.5 
Hughes          1  10                        Gabrielsen    0.5   3.5 
  
Interceptions  No Yds  Ave TD                Interceptions  No Yds  Ave TD
None                                         DeMarinis       1  16 16.0  0
                                             Jackson         1   9  9.0  0
                                             Woerner         1   0  0.0  0

Archived news report
Archived news report

Supplemental information courtesy of Chris Blackburn


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