Nov. 24, 1983 – Home – Cardinal Stadium – Louisville, Ky. – Attendance 9,574
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Memphis | 3 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 45 |
| Qtr | Time | Scoring Play |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd | 14:57 | Willie Shelby 1-yard rush (Phil Ellis kick), 6-74, 01:54 |
| Louisville | Memphis | |
|---|---|---|
| FIRST DOWNS | 17 | 19 |
| Rushing | 8 | 17 |
| Passing | 9 | 2 |
| Penalty | 0 | 0 |
| NET YARDS RUSHING | 179 | 394 |
| Rushing Attempts | 46 | 53 |
| Average Per Rush | 3.9 | 7.4 |
| Rushing Touchdowns | 1 | 4 |
| Yards Gained Rushing | 210 | 412 |
| Yards Lost Rushing | 31 | 18 |
| NET YARDS PASSING | 145 | 39 |
| Completions-Attempts-Int | 16-34-5 | 3-11-0 |
| Average Per Attempt | 4.3 | 3.5 |
| Average Per Completion | 9.1 | 13.0 |
| Passing Touchdowns | 0 | 1 |
| TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS | 324 | 433 |
| Total offense plays | 80 | 64 |
| Average Gain Per Play | 4.1 | 6.8 |
| Fumbles: Number-Lost | 2-0 | 6-2 |
| Penalties: Number-Yards | 7-55 | 7-50 |
| PUNTS-YARDS | 9-283 | 4-167 |
| Average Yards Per Punt | 31.4 | 41.8 |
| Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD | 1-4-0 | 3-21-0 |
| Average Per Return | 4.0 | 7.0 |
| Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD | 6-87-0 | 2-43-0 |
| Average Per Return | 14.5 | 21.5 |
| Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 5-82-1 |
| Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD | 0-0-0 | 0-0-0 |
| Possession Time | 34:00 | |
| Third-Down Conversions | 4-15 | 4-12 |
| Sacks By: Number-Yards | 0-0 | 2-15 |
| PAT Kicks | 1-1 | 6-6 |
| 2Pts Conversions | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| Field Goals | 0-0 | 1-0 |
| RUSHING | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Gain | Loss | Net | TD | Lg | Avg | |
| John Adams | 14 | 99 | 2 | 97 | 0 | 30 | 6.9 |
| Leonard Sullivan | 15 | 69 | 3 | 66 | 0 | 14 | 4.4 |
| Willie Shelby | 12 | 42 | 7 | 35 | 1 | 8 | 2.9 |
| Ron Davenport | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Theodist Grimes | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 | -4 | -4.0 |
| Tom Mihaljevic | 1 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 0 | -7 | -7.0 |
| Ed Rubbert | 2 | 0 | 8 | -8 | 0 | 0 | -4.0 |
| Totals | 46 | 210 | 31 | 179 | 1 | 30 | 3.9 |
| PASSING | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-A-I | Yds | TD | Long | Sack | |
| Ed Rubbert | 16-28-4 | 145 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
| Tom Mihaljevic | 0-5-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sam Brown | 0-1-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 16-34-5 | 145 | 0 | 27 | 2 |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAR | No. | Yards | YAC | TD | Long | |
| Leonard Sullivan | 5 | 44 | 0 | 27 | ||
| Jeff Hortert | 3 | 37 | 0 | 13 | ||
| David Hatfield | 4 | 35 | 0 | 17 | ||
| Bruce Armstrong | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||
| John Adams | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||
| Willie Shelby | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 16 | 145 | 0 | 27 | ||
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB | |
| Phil Ellis | 9 | 283 | 31.4 | 37 | ||
| Totals | 9 | 283 | 31.4 | 37 | ||
| RETURNS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Punt No | Yds | Lg | Kick No | Yds | Lg | Int No | Yds | Lg | |
| Keith Humphries | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 78 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Theodist Grimes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 87 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FIELD GOALS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Qtr | Time | Dist | Result |
| ALL-PURPOSE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush | Rcv | KR | PR | IR | Total | |
| Leonard Sullivan | 66 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 |
| John Adams | 97 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 106 |
| Keith Humphries | 0 | 0 | 78 | 4 | 0 | 82 |
| Willie Shelby | 35 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 |
| Jeff Hortert | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 |
| David Hatfield | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| Bruce Armstrong | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Theodist Grimes | -4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Tom Mihaljevic | -7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7 |
| Ed Rubbert | -8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -8 |
| FUMBLES |
|---|
| Louisville – Willie Shelby 1-0 Memphis – 6-2 |
| Louisville Defense | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Name | Solo | Ast | Total | Sacks-Yds | TFL-Yds | FF | FR-Yds | Int-Yds | BrUp | Blks | QBH |
| 34 | Brian Miller | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Kirk Perry | 7 | 3 | 10 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Mike Trainor | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Marc Matthews | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 96 | Larry Galcik | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Don Cosby | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 82 | Mike Minogue | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Bobby Jefferson | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | Donte Wheat | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Doug Pritchett | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53 | Mike Botts | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | John DeMarco | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | John Adams | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 44 | Matt Battaglia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | Jon Cade | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Torrence Dickens | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 90 | Ron Marney | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Avery Marshall | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | Dave Naimaister | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Herb Parrott | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Paul Schaller | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 1.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Willie Shelby | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 58 | Chris Thieneman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | Carl Williams | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Don Johnson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | Joe Falleri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0-0 | 0.0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 61 | 17 | 78 | 0.0-0 | 4.0-0 | 0 | 4-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
1-Kirk Perry, 20-Torrence Dickens, 24-John Adams, 25-Doug Pritchett, 26-Don Cosby, 28-Carl Williams, 30-Willie Shelby, 34-Brian Miller, 35-Paul Schaller, 36-Marc Matthews, 41-Mike Trainor, 42-Herb Parrott, 43-Avery Marshall, 44-Matt Battaglia, 46-John DeMarco, 50-Donte Wheat, 53-Mike Botts, 54-Joe Falleri, 55-Don Johnson, 56-Bobby Jefferson, 58-Chris Thieneman, 82-Mike Minogue, 83-Dave Naimaister, 90-Ron Marney, 96-Larry Galcik, 98-Jon Cade, Bruce Armstrong, Sam Brown, Ron Davenport, Phil Ellis, Theodist Grimes, David Hatfield, Jeff Hortert, Keith Humphries, Tom Mihaljevic, Ed Rubbert, Leonard Sullivan