Nov. 20, 1964 - Gino Cappelletti, the AFL’s leading scorer, added 10 points today in pacing the favored Boston Patriots to a 12‐7 victory over the Denver Broncos.
Capelletti, who at 132 points is only 15 short of the record he set in 1961, caught a 26‐yard pass from Babe Parilli for Boston’s only touchdown of the game.
The Boston end also kicked a 50‐yard field goal, his longest of the season, and a conversion.
The only Patriot points he did not figure in were scored by the Boston defense when Jack Rudolph, a linebacker, hauled down Jackie Lee, Denver quarterback, in the Bronco end zone.
Lee threw an 11‐yard scoring pass to Lionel Taylor for the Bronco touchdown, and Dick Guesman converted.
A crowd of 24,979 at Fenway Park saw Ron Hall and Ross O’Hanley intercept passes and Jim Lee Hunt recover a fumble to check Denver scoring bids during wild exchanges in the final minutes.
Hall’s catch of a pass by Mickey Slaughter was his ninth of the season and tied him with Dana Paulson of New York for the league leadership.
Boston scored 9 of its points in the first half.
A 72‐yard run back of an intercepted pass from Parilli by Leroy Moore, a 230‐pound Denver lineman, set up the Bronco touchdown. Moore is a former Boston player.
Parilli passed for 90 yards, including the 26‐yard scoring toss during Boston's touchdown drive that was set back when the quarterback was thrown for a 17‐yard loss midway in the push.
Denver had held the Patriots for downs on their 3‐yard line just before the safety. Cappelletti kicked his long‐distance field goal when three passes by Parilli went incomplete following a 44‐yard runback by O'Hanley on the first of his two interceptions for the night.
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