1947 New York Yankees Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 11-2-1, 1st in AAFC East Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Ray Flaherty (11-2-1)

Points For: 378 (27.0/g) 2nd of 8

Points Against: 239 (17.1/g) 2nd of 8

Expected W-L: 10.5-3.5

SRS: 8.69 (2nd of 8), SOS: -1.24

Playoffs:
Lost Championship 3-14 vs. Cleveland Browns

Other Notable Asst.: Red Strader (Backfield Coach)

Stadium: Yankee Stadium

Training Camp: Cheshire Academy (Cheshire, Connecticut)

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Team Stats and Rankings

Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	378	4725	782	6.0	35	17	187	111	216	1795	16	18	7.2	54	534	2930	27	5.5	120	67	522	13
Opp. Stats	239	3147	714	4.4	29	12	140	144	304	1910	17	17	5.6	60	371	1237	13	3.3	67	54	382	13
Lg Rank Offense	2	3			3	4	3		8	7	6	3	2		2	1	1	1
Lg Rank Defense	2	1			8	8	1		6	3	3	6	2		1	1	4	1

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
									Score		Offense					Defense
Week	Day	Date			OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO
1	Sun	August 31	boxscore	L		0-1	@	Buffalo Bills	24	28	17	385	215	170	3	11	251	114	137	1
2	Fri	September 5	boxscore	W		1-1		Chicago Rockets	48	26	11	356	121	235	2	8	168	49	119	2
3	Fri	September 12	boxscore	W		2-1	@	Los Angeles Dons	30	14	8	275	176	99		5	115	91	24	2
4	Sun	September 21	boxscore	W		3-1	@	San Francisco 49ers	21	16	10	187	75	112	2	17	329	166	163	4
5	Sun	September 28	boxscore	W		4-1	@	Baltimore Colts	21	7	10	231	120	111	5	14	246	171	75	5
6	Sun	October 5	boxscore	L		4-2	@	Cleveland Browns	17	26	11	189	78	111	3	14	301	89	212	1
7	Sun	October 12	boxscore	W		5-2		Brooklyn Dodgers	31	7	11	285	46	239	3	4	55	32	23	1
9	Fri	October 24	boxscore	W		6-2	@	Chicago Rockets	28	7	16	443	48	395	3	5	109	129	-20	1
10	Sun	November 2	boxscore	W		7-2		Baltimore Colts	35	21	11	337	51	286	2	9	219	199	20	1
11	Sun	November 9	boxscore	W		8-2		San Francisco 49ers	24	16	18	389	154	235	4	7	129	68	61	1
12	Sun	November 16	boxscore	W		9-2		Los Angeles Dons	16	13	16	355	137	218	3	6	93	12	81	1
13	Sun	November 23	boxscore	T		9-2-1		Cleveland Browns	28	28	19	327	58	269	1	19	424	325	99	4
14	Sun	November 30	boxscore	W		10-2-1		Buffalo Bills	35	13	17	334	80	254	1	10	188	101	87	4
15	Sun	December 7	boxscore	W		11-2-1	@	Brooklyn Dodgers	20	17	12	357	161	196	3	11	175	19	156	1
		Playoffs
Championship	Sun	December 14	boxscore	L		11-3-1		Cleveland Browns	3	14	13	212	89	123	3	15	284	112	172	1

Passing

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Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	Awards
1	Spec Sanders	29	TB	14	12	93	171	54.4	1442	14	8.2	17	9.9	55	8.4	5.6	15.5	103.0	70.2	20	175	10.47	6.63	4.1	AP-1
2	Eddie Prokop	25	FB	13	4	4	8	50.0	137	2	25.0	1	12.5		17.1	16.5	34.3	10.5	95.8
3	Frankie Sinkwich	27		3	1	8	15	53.3	93	0	0.0	0	0.0		6.2	6.2	11.6	31.0	72.4	4	25	21.05	3.58	3.6
4	Bob Kennedy	26		14	1	2	3	66.7	56	0	0.0	0	0.0		18.7	18.7	28.0	4.0	109.7
5	Ben Raimondi	22		7	0	3	15	20.0	54	0	0.0	0	0.0		3.6	3.6	18.0	7.7	42.1	7	66	31.82	-0.55	-0.5
6	Buddy Young	21	FB	14	8	1	2	50.0	13	0	0.0	0	0.0	13	6.5	6.5	13.0	0.9	70.8	1	9	33.33	1.33	1.3
7	Dewey Proctor	27		11	1	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
8	John Sylvester	24		7	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
	Team Totals			14	14	111	216	51.4	1795	16	7.4	18	8.3	55	9.6	6.0	16.2	128.2	74.8	32	275	13.62	6.13	3.6

Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A
1	Spec Sanders	29	TB	1	1	7	17	41.2	89	1	5.9	20	5.2	2.6	12.7	89.0	33.7	2	23	10.53	3.47	1.1
2	Eddie Prokop	25	FB	1	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
	Team Totals			1	1	7	18	38.9	89	1	5.6	20	6.2	2.4	12.7	89.0	37.3	2	23	10.00	3.30	1.1

Rushing & Receiving

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing							Receiving							Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Spec Sanders	29	TB	14	12	231	1432	18		6.2	102.3	16.5	1	13	13.0	0	13	0.1	0.9	232	6.2	1445	18	0	AP-1
2	Buddy Young	21	FB	14	8	116	712	3		6.1	50.9	8.3	27	303	11.2	2	50	1.9	21.6	143	7.1	1015	5	0
3	Eddie Prokop	25	FB	13	4	76	324	4	52	4.3	24.9	5.8	3	79	26.3	1		0.2	6.1	79	5.1	403	5	0
4	Jack Russell	28	LE	14	14	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	20	368	18.4	2		1.4	26.3	20	18.4	368	2	0
5	Bruce Alford	26	RE	13	13	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	20	298	14.9	5	52	1.5	22.9	20	14.9	298	5	0	AP-1
6	Bob Kennedy	26		14	1	44	258	1		5.9	18.4	3.1	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	44	5.9	258	1	0
7	Harry Burrus	26	WB	14	5	1	5	0	5	5.0	0.4	0.1	8	192	24.0	2		0.6	13.7	9	21.9	197	2	0
8	Van Davis	26		13	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	8	179	22.4	0		0.6	13.8	8	22.4	179	0	0
9	Bob Sweiger	28	WB	14	11	9	44	0		4.9	3.1	0.6	11	108	9.8	1		0.8	7.7	20	7.6	152	1	0
10	Lloyd Cheatham	28	BB	14	10	1	-2	0	-2	-2.0	-0.1	0.1	4	124	31.0	2	70	0.3	8.9	5	24.4	122	2	0
11	John Sylvester	24		7	0	17	101	0		5.9	14.4	2.4	1	5	5.0	0	5	0.1	0.7	18	5.9	106	0	0
12	Roy Kurrasch	25		10	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	2	53	26.5	0		0.2	5.3	2	26.5	53	0	0
13	Lowell Wagner	24		7	3	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	4	50	12.5	1		0.6	7.1	4	12.5	50	1	0
14	Frankie Sinkwich	27		3	1	16	33	0		2.1	11.0	5.3	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	16	2.1	33	0	0
15	Ollie Poole	25		5	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	19	19.0	0	19	0.2	3.8	1	19.0	19	0	0
16	Dewey Proctor	27		11	1	15	15	1		1.0	1.4	1.4	1	4	4.0	0	4	0.1	0.4	16	1.2	19	1	0
17	Ben Raimondi	22		7	0	6	11	0		1.8	1.6	0.9	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	6	1.8	11	0	0
18	Harmon Rowe	24		10	0	2	-3	0		-1.5	-0.3	0.2	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	-1.5	-3	0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	534	2930	27	52	5.5	209.3	38.1	111	1795	16.2	16	70	7.9	128.2	645	7.3	4725	43	0

Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing							Receiving							Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Buddy Young	21	FB	1	1	16	69	0	14	4.3	69.0	16.0	2	25	12.5	0	13	2.0	25.0	18	5.2	94	0	2
2	Spec Sanders	29	TB	1	1	12	40	0	23	3.3	40.0	12.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	12	3.3	40	0	0
3	Roy Kurrasch	25		1	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	20	20.0	0	20	1.0	20.0	1	20.0	20	0	0
4	Van Davis	26		1	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	18	18.0	0	18	1.0	18.0	1	18.0	18	0	0
5	Eddie Prokop	25	FB	1	0	5	14	0	5	2.8	14.0	5.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	5	2.8	14	0	0
6	Jack Russell	28	LE	1	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	14	14.0	0	14	1.0	14.0	1	14.0	14	0	0
7	Bob Sweiger	28	WB	1	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	2	12	6.0	0	7	2.0	12.0	2	6.0	12	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	33	123	0	23	3.7	123.0	33.0	7	89	12.7	0	20	7.0	89.0	40	5.3	212	0	2

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Defense & Fumbles

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						Def Interceptions				Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Sfty	Awards
1	Jack Russell	28	LE	14	14	1	33	0	33	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	Bruce Alford	26	RE	13	13	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	AP-1
3	Spec Sanders	29	TB	14	12	3	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	AP-1
4	Bob Sweiger	28	WB	14	11	2	51	1	31	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	Harry Burrus	26	WB	14	5	1	11	0	11	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	Eddie Prokop	25	FB	13	4	3	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	Bob Kennedy	26		14	1	2	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	Dewey Proctor	27		11	1	1	32	0	32	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	Roy Ruskusky	26		11	1	1	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	Harmon Rowe	24		10	0	2	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
	Team Totals			14	14	17	342	1	33	0	0	0	0	0.0	0

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions					Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	PD	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Sfty	Awards
1	Lloyd Cheatham	28	BB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0.0	0	0
2	Buddy Young	21	FB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	7	0	0.0	0	0

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