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1968 Houston Oilers
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Record: 7-7-0, Finished 2nd in AFL East Division
AFL Season Summary
Scored 303 points (21.6/g), 5th of 10 in the AFL.
Allowed 248 points (17.7/g), 3rd.
Differential of 55 points (3.9/g), 5th.
Expected W-L: 8.6-5.4.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -8 (-0.6/g), 7th.
Coached by Wally Lemm (7-7-0)
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1968 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees
Starters
Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · CSV · PRE · Hide Non-primary Starters| Pos | Age | Yrs | GS | Summary of Player Stats | Drafted (tm/rnd/yr) | |
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| Offensive Starters | Complete Team Stats | |||||
| QB | Pete Beathard | 26 | 4 | 7 | 105 for 223, 1,559 yards, 7 td, 16 int, & 18 rushes for 79 yards and 2 td | Kansas City Chiefs / 1st / 2nd pick / 1964 |
| HB | Sid Blanks | 28 | 4 | 0 | 63 rushes for 169 yards, 0 td, & 13 catches for 184 yards and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 5th / 38th pick / 1964 |
| HB | Woody Campbell | 24 | 1 | 0 | 115 rushes for 436 yards, 6 td, & 21 catches for 234 yards and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 10th / 242nd pick / 1967 |
| FB | Hoyle Granger* | 24 | 2 | 0 | 202 rushes for 848 yards, 7 td, & 26 catches for 361 yards and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 5th / 37th pick / 1966 |
| WR | Jim Beirne | 22 | Rook | 0 | 31 catches for 474 yards, 4 td, & 1 rush for 3 yards and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 4th / 105th pick / 1968 |
| WR | Mac Haik | 22 | Rook | 0 | 32 catches for 584 yards, 8 td, & 2 rushes for 7 yards and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 49th pick / 1968 |
| TE | Alvin Reed* | 24 | 1 | 0 | 46 catches for 747 yards, 5 td | |
| LT | Walt Suggs* | 29 | 6 | 0 | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 24th pick / 1961 |
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| LG | Tom Regner | 24 | 1 | 0 | Houston Oilers / 1st / 23rd pick / 1967 |
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| C | Bobby Maples* | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 fumble recovered | Houston Oilers / 4th / 26th pick / 1965 |
| RG | Sonny Bishop* | 29 | 6 | 0 | San Diego Chargers / 11th / 88th pick / 1962 |
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| RT | Glen Ray Hines* | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 fumbles recovered | St. Louis Cardinals / 6th / 82nd pick / 1965 |
| Defensive Starters | ||||||
| LDE | Pat Holmes* | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 interceptions, 2 fumbles recovered | Philadelphia Eagles / 3rd / 40th pick / 1962 |
| LDT | Willie D. Parker | 23 | 1 | 0 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 118th pick / 1967 |
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| RDT | George Rice | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 interceptions, 1 fumble recovered | Chicago Bears / 1st / 12th pick / 1966 |
| RDE | Elvin Bethea | 22 | Rook | 3 | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 77th pick / 1968 |
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| LLB | George Webster*+ | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 interception, 0 fumbles recovered | Houston Oilers / 1st / 5th pick / 1967 |
| MLB | Garland Boyette* | 28 | 6 | 0 | 1 interception, 0 fumbles recovered | |
| RLB | Olen Underwood | 26 | 3 | 0 | 1 interception, 3 fumbles recovered | New York Giants / 14th / 183rd pick / 1965 |
| LCB | Miller Farr*+ | 25 | 3 | 0 | 3 interceptions, 0 fumbles recovered | |
| RCB | Larry Carwell | 24 | 1 | 0 | 4 interceptions, 2 fumbles recovered | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 56th pick / 1967 |
| LS | Ken Houston* | 24 | 1 | 9 | 5 interceptions, 1 fumble recovered | Houston Oilers / 9th / 214th pick / 1967 |
| RS | W.K. Hicks | 26 | 4 | 0 | 3 interceptions, 0 fumbles recovered | |
| Special Teams Starters | ||||||
| K | Wayne Walker | 24 | 1 | 0 | 8 of 16 field goals & 26 of 26 extra points | Kansas City Chiefs / 13th / 115th pick / 1966 |
| P | Jim Norton | 30 | 8 | 0 | 73 punts for a 41.2 average, 2 blocked | Detroit Lions / 7th / 75th pick / 1960 |
| PR | Larry Carwell | 24 | 1 | 0 | 27 punt returns for a 8.4 average and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 56th pick / 1967 |
| KR | Zeke Moore | 25 | 1 | 0 | 32 kick returns for a 24.6 average and 0 td | Houston Oilers / 5th / 127th pick / 1967 |
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Wt | Ht | College/Univ | BirthDate | Yrs | Drafted (tm/rnd/yr) | |
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| Pete Barnes | 23 | LB | 13 | 0 | 239 | 6-1 | Southern | 8/31/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 6th / 136th pick / 1967 |
| Glenn Bass | 29 | SE-WR | 3 | 0 | 202 | 6-2 | East Carolina | 4/12/1939 | 7 | St. Louis Cardinals / 5th / 64th pick / 1961 |
| Pete Beathard | 26 | QB | 9 | 7 | 200 | 6-1 | USC | 3/7/1942 | 4 | Kansas City Chiefs / 1st / 2nd pick / 1964 |
| Jim Beirne | 22 | WR-TE | 14 | 0 | 206 | 6-2 | Purdue | 10/15/1946 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 4th / 105th pick / 1968 |
| Elvin Bethea | 22 | DE | 14 | 3 | 260 | 6-2 | North Carolina A&T | 3/1/1946 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 77th pick / 1968 |
| Sonny Bishop* | 29 | G-T | 14 | 0 | 245 | 6-2 | Fresno State | 10/1/1939 | 6 | San Diego Chargers / 11th / 88th pick / 1962 |
| Sid Blanks | 28 | RB | 14 | 0 | 200 | 6-1 | Texas A&M-Kingsville | 4/29/1940 | 4 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 38th pick / 1964 |
| Garland Boyette* | 28 | LB-DE | 14 | 0 | 238 | 6-1 | Grambling State | 3/22/1940 | 6 | |
| Ode Burrell | 29 | RB-WR-P | 1 | 0 | 190 | 6-0 | Mississippi State | 9/15/1939 | 4 | Houston Oilers / 4th / 30th pick / 1964 |
| Woody Campbell | 24 | RB | 14 | 0 | 204 | 5-10 | Northwestern | 9/26/1944 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 10th / 242nd pick / 1967 |
| Ed Carrington | 24 | TE | 1 | 0 | 225 | 6-4 | Virginia | 9/1/1944 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 7th / 164th pick / 1967 |
| Larry Carwell | 24 | DB | 14 | 0 | 188 | 6-1 | Iowa State | 8/5/1944 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 56th pick / 1967 |
| Ronnie Caveness | 25 | LB | 11 | 0 | 225 | 6-1 | Arkansas | 3/6/1943 | 3 | Kansas City Chiefs / 2nd / 16th pick / 1965 |
| Gary Cutsinger | 28 | DE | 14 | 0 | 245 | 6-5 | Oklahoma State | 2/4/1940 | 6 | Houston Oilers / 4th / 30th pick / 1962 |
| Bob Davis | 23 | QB | 6 | 3 | 205 | 6-2 | Virginia | 9/15/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 30th pick / 1967 |
| Tom Domres | 22 | DT | 14 | 0 | 260 | 6-3 | Wisconsin | 10/19/1946 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 10th / 268th pick / 1968 |
| Miller Farr*+ | 25 | DB | 14 | 0 | 190 | 6-1 | Wichita State | 4/8/1943 | 3 | |
| Charley Frazier | 29 | WR | 13 | 0 | 190 | 6-0 | Texas Southern | 8/12/1939 | 6 | |
| Hoyle Granger* | 24 | RB | 13 | 0 | 225 | 6-1 | Mississippi State | 3/7/1944 | 2 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 37th pick / 1966 |
| Mac Haik | 22 | WR | 14 | 0 | 195 | 6-1 | Mississippi | 1/19/1946 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 49th pick / 1968 |
| W.K. Hicks | 26 | DB | 14 | 0 | 195 | 6-1 | Texas Southern | 7/14/1942 | 4 | |
| Glen Ray Hines* | 25 | T | 14 | 0 | 265 | 6-5 | Arkansas | 10/26/1943 | 2 | St. Louis Cardinals / 6th / 82nd pick / 1965 |
| Pat Holmes* | 28 | DE-DT | 14 | 0 | 255 | 6-5 | Texas Tech | 8/3/1940 | 2 | Philadelphia Eagles / 3rd / 40th pick / 1962 |
| Roy Hopkins | 23 | RB | 13 | 0 | 235 | 6-1 | Texas Southern | 2/18/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 2nd / 49th pick / 1967 |
| Ken Houston* | 24 | DB | 14 | 9 | 197 | 6-3 | Prairie View | 11/12/1944 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 9th / 214th pick / 1967 |
| Pete Johns | 23 | DB | 9 | 0 | 190 | 6-2 | Tulane | 8/14/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 111th pick / 1967 |
| Jim LeMoine | 23 | TE-G | 13 | 0 | 250 | 6-2 | Utah State | 4/29/1945 | 1 | Buffalo Bills / 2nd / 42nd pick / 1967 |
| Bobby Maples* | 26 | C-LB | 14 | 0 | 250 | 6-3 | Baylor | 12/28/1942 | 3 | Houston Oilers / 4th / 26th pick / 1965 |
| Bud Marshall | 27 | DT-DE | 11 | 0 | 270 | 6-4 | Baylor,Stephen F. Austin | 9/12/1941 | 3 | Green Bay Packers / 10th / 136th pick / 1965 |
| Dudley Meredith | 33 | DT | 5 | 0 | 280 | 6-4 | Florida,Lamar,Midwestern State | 1/16/1935 | 5 | Detroit Lions / 21st / 251st pick / 1957 |
| Zeke Moore | 25 | DB | 14 | 0 | 198 | 6-3 | Lincoln (MO) | 12/2/1943 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 127th pick / 1967 |
| Jim Norton | 30 | DB-P | 14 | 0 | 190 | 6-3 | Idaho | 10/20/1938 | 8 | Detroit Lions / 7th / 75th pick / 1960 |
| Willie D. Parker | 23 | DT | 14 | 0 | 275 | 6-3 | Ark-Pine Bluff | 3/12/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 5th / 118th pick / 1967 |
| Steve Quinn | 22 | C | 9 | 0 | 225 | 6-1 | Notre Dame | 2/11/1946 | Rook | |
| Alvin Reed* | 24 | TE | 14 | 0 | 235 | 6-5 | Prairie View | 8/1/1944 | 1 | |
| Tom Regner | 24 | G | 14 | 0 | 235 | 6-1 | Notre Dame | 4/19/1944 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 1st / 23rd pick / 1967 |
| George Rice | 24 | DT | 11 | 0 | 260 | 6-3 | LSU | 6/10/1944 | 2 | Chicago Bears / 1st / 12th pick / 1966 |
| Bob Robertson | 22 | T | 14 | 0 | 246 | 6-4 | Illinois | 12/24/1946 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 9th / 224th pick / 1968 |
| Marion Rushing | 32 | LB | 5 | 0 | 223 | 6-2 | Southern Illinois | 9/3/1936 | 9 | |
| Bob Smith | 23 | DB | 6 | 0 | 181 | 6-0 | Miami (OH) | 12/28/1945 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 16th / 430th pick / 1968 |
| Carel Stith | 23 | DT-DE | 3 | 0 | 270 | 6-5 | Nebraska | 5/24/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 4th / 86th pick / 1967 |
| Richard Stotter | 23 | LB | 3 | 0 | 225 | 6-0 | Houston | 4/5/1945 | Rook | Houston Oilers / 14th / 376th pick / 1968 |
| Walt Suggs* | 29 | T-C | 14 | 0 | 260 | 6-5 | Mississippi State | 5/15/1939 | 6 | Houston Oilers / 3rd / 24th pick / 1961 |
| Richard Swatland | 23 | G | 4 | 0 | 245 | 6-3 | Notre Dame | 10/8/1945 | Rook | New Orleans Saints / 8th / 195th pick / 1968 |
| Lionel Taylor | 33 | E-WR-FL | 9 | 0 | 215 | 6-2 | New Mexico Highlands | 8/15/1935 | 9 | |
| Don Trull | 27 | QB | 11 | 4 | 195 | 6-1 | Baylor | 10/20/1941 | 4 | Houston Oilers / 14th / 111th pick / 1963 |
| Olen Underwood | 26 | LB | 14 | 0 | 220 | 6-1 | Texas | 5/25/1942 | 3 | New York Giants / 14th / 183rd pick / 1965 |
| Wayne Walker | 24 | P | 8 | 0 | 230 | 6-3 | Northwest State (LA) | 10/14/1944 | 1 | Kansas City Chiefs / 13th / 115th pick / 1966 |
| George Webster*+ | 23 | LB | 14 | 0 | 220 | 6-4 | Michigan State | 11/25/1945 | 1 | Houston Oilers / 1st / 5th pick / 1967 |
| John Wittenborn | 32 | G-K | 6 | 0 | 238 | 6-2 | Southeast Missouri State | 3/1/1936 | 10 | San Francisco 49ers / 17th / 203rd pick / 1958 |
| Team Total | 25.5 | 14 | 226.1 | 6-2.2 | 2.7 |