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Record: 9-3-0, Finished 1st in NFL National Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 466 points (38.8/g), 1st of 13 in the NFL.
Allowed 309 points (25.8/g), 9th.
Differential of 157 points (13.1/g), 2nd.
Expected W-L: 8.7-3.3.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +2 (0.2/g), 6th.
Simple Rating System: Total 5.9, Offense: 12.3, Defense: -6.4, SoS: -7.2, versus averages of 0.0.
Coached by
Joe Stydahar
Training Camp: University of Redlands (Redlands, California)
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| Tot Yds & TO | Passing | Rushing | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 466 | 5240 | 880 | 6.0 | 278 | 253 | 453 | 3529 | 31 | 27 | 7.4 | 142 | 404 | 1711 | 28 | 4.2 | 112 | 44 | 17 | 24 |
| Team Defense | 309 | 4161 | 853 | 4.9 | 217 | 165 | 385 | 2279 | 26 | 31 | 5.4 | 88 | 431 | 1882 | 12 | 4.4 | 113 | 46 | 15 | 16 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 9 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 9 | ||||||
| Score | Offense | Defense | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Day | Date | OT | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | |||
| 1 | Sun | September 17 | boxscore | L | 0-1 | Chicago Bears | 20 | 24 | 15 | 309 | 255 | 54 | 2 | 19 | 338 | 137 | 201 | 1 | ||
| 2 | Fri | September 22 | boxscore | W | 1-1 | New York Yanks | 45 | 28 | 28 | 529 | 328 | 201 | 1 | 14 | 447 | 220 | 227 | 2 | ||
| 3 | Sun | October 1 | boxscore | W | 2-1 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 35 | 14 | 21 | 341 | 132 | 209 | 3 | 23 | 412 | 282 | 130 | 2 | |
| 3 | Sat | October 7 | boxscore | L | 2-2 | @ | Philadelphia Eagles | 20 | 56 | 23 | 455 | 329 | 126 | 6 | 20 | 473 | 175 | 298 | 1 | |
| 5 | Sun | October 15 | boxscore | W | 3-2 | @ | Detroit Lions | 30 | 28 | 23 | 422 | 354 | 68 | 6 | 12 | 262 | 204 | 58 | 4 | |
| 6 | Sun | October 22 | boxscore | W | 4-2 | Baltimore Colts | 70 | 27 | 28 | 535 | 347 | 188 | 4 | 25 | 423 | 280 | 143 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Sun | October 29 | boxscore | W | 5-2 | Detroit Lions | 65 | 24 | 20 | 494 | 427 | 67 | 1 | 11 | 213 | 148 | 65 | 7 | ||
| 8 | Sun | November 5 | boxscore | W | 6-2 | San Francisco 49ers | 28 | 21 | 24 | 371 | 196 | 175 | 6 | 17 | 301 | 150 | 151 | 3 | ||
| 8 | Sun | November 12 | boxscore | W | 7-2 | @ | Green Bay Packers | 45 | 14 | 13 | 370 | 283 | 87 | 5 | 17 | 297 | 200 | 97 | 9 | |
| 9 | Sun | November 19 | boxscore | W | 8-2 | @ | New York Yanks | 43 | 35 | 32 | 636 | 370 | 266 | 4 | 25 | 497 | 312 | 185 | 6 | |
| 10 | Sun | November 26 | boxscore | L | 8-3 | @ | Chicago Bears | 14 | 24 | 20 | 334 | 263 | 71 | 4 | 21 | 362 | 174 | 188 | 2 | |
| 12 | Sun | December 3 | boxscore | W | 9-3 | Green Bay Packers | 51 | 14 | 31 | 523 | 324 | 199 | 2 | 13 | 224 | 85 | 139 | 3 | ||
| Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Division | Sun | December 17 | boxscore | W | 10-3 | Chicago Bears | 24 | 14 | 11 | 371 | 297 | 74 | 2 | 23 | 370 | 141 | 229 | 3 | ||
| Championship | Sun | December 24 | boxscore | L | 10-4 | @ | Cleveland Browns | 28 | 30 | 22 | 407 | 301 | 106 | 5 | 22 | 373 | 257 | 116 | 4 | |
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | QBrec | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | 4QC | GWD | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 24 | QB | 12 | 6 | 5-1-0 | 127 | 233 | 54.5 | 2061 | 18 | 7.7 | 14 | 6.0 | 58 | 8.8 | 7.7 | 16.2 | 171.8 | 85.1 | ||||||||
| 7 | Bob Waterfield* | 30 | K/P/qb | 12 | 6 | 4-2-0 | 122 | 213 | 57.3 | 1540 | 11 | 5.2 | 13 | 6.1 | 72 | 7.2 | 5.5 | 12.6 | 128.3 | 71.7 | ||||||||
| 41 | Glenn Davis* | 26 | LH | 12 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 60.0 | 97 | 2 | 40.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 58 | 19.4 | 27.4 | 32.3 | 8.1 | 143.7 | |||||||||
| 40 | Elroy Hirsch | 27 | RE | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.6 | ||||||||||
| 77 | Vitamin Smith | 27 | KR/PR | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 11 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 0.9 | 112.5 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 9-3-0 | 253 | 453 | 55.8 | 3709 | 31 | 6.8 | 27 | 6.0 | 72 | 8.2 | 6.9 | 14.7 | 309.1 | 80.7 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Opp Total | 12 | 165 | 385 | 42.9 | 2576 | 26 | 6.8 | 31 | 8.1 | 6.7 | 4.42 | 15.6 | 214.7 | 54.6 | 37 | 297 | 5.4 | 3.3 | 8.8 |
| Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| 31 | Dick Hoerner* | 28 | FB | 12 | 0 | 95 | 381 | 10 | 64 | 4.0 | 31.8 | 7.9 | 26 | 446 | 17.2 | 1 | 48 | 2.2 | 37.2 | 827 | 11 | 3 |
| 41 | Glenn Davis* | 26 | LH | 12 | 0 | 88 | 416 | 3 | 55 | 4.7 | 34.7 | 7.3 | 42 | 592 | 14.1 | 4 | 50 | 3.5 | 49.3 | 1008 | 7 | 5 |
| 77 | Vitamin Smith | 27 | KR/PR | 12 | 0 | 51 | 250 | 1 | 25 | 4.9 | 20.8 | 4.3 | 16 | 279 | 17.4 | 4 | 67 | 1.3 | 23.3 | 529 | 5 | 4 |
| 9 | Paul Barry | 24 | RH | 12 | 0 | 50 | 231 | 2 | 28 | 4.6 | 19.3 | 4.2 | 7 | 122 | 17.4 | 0 | 39 | 0.6 | 10.2 | 353 | 2 | 0 |
| 32 | Dan Towler | 22 | 12 | 0 | 46 | 130 | 6 | 34 | 2.8 | 10.8 | 3.8 | 8 | 63 | 7.9 | 0 | 17 | 0.7 | 5.3 | 193 | 6 | 3 | |
| 24 | Tommy Kalmanir | 24 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 83 | 0 | 33 | 4.2 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 5 | 58 | 11.6 | 1 | 41 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 141 | 1 | 2 | |
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 24 | QB | 12 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 1 | 16 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 22 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| 33 | Jerry Williams | 27 | S | 12 | 0 | 13 | 108 | 1 | 38 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 1.1 | 4 | 21 | 5.3 | 1 | 11 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 129 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | Bob Waterfield* | 30 | K/P/qb | 12 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 14 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| 13 | Tank Younger | 22 | RLB | 12 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 28 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| 36 | Ralph Pasquariello | 24 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 33 | 1 | 0 | |
| 40 | Elroy Hirsch | 27 | RE | 12 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 9.5 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 42 | 687 | 16.4 | 7 | 58 | 3.5 | 57.3 | 706 | 7 | 0 |
| 80 | Bob Boyd | 22 | 12 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | -2 | -2.0 | -0.2 | 0.1 | 9 | 220 | 24.4 | 4 | 72 | 0.8 | 18.3 | 218 | 4 | 0 | |
| 55 | Tom Fears*+ | 27 | LE | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 84 | 1116 | 13.3 | 7 | 53 | 7.0 | 93.0 | 1116 | 7 | 3 | |
| 86 | Ed Champagne | 28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | 52 | 13.0 | 1 | 21 | 0.4 | 4.7 | 52 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 79 | Bill Smyth | 28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 6 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 66 | Gil Bouley | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 0 | 11 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 | Tom Keane | 24 | LDH | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 0 | 19 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| 54 | Bob Reinhard | 30 | RDT/RT | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 1 | 11 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | |
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 404 | 1711 | 28 | 64 | 4.2 | 142.6 | 33.7 | 253 | 3709 | 14.7 | 31 | 72 | 21.1 | 309.1 | 5420 | 59 | 30 | |||
| Opp Total | 12 | 431 | 1882 | 12 | 4.4 | 156.8 | 35.9 | 165 | 2279 | 13.8 | 26 | 13.8 | 189.9 | 4161 | 38 | 31 | ||||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| 77 | Vitamin Smith | 27 | KR/PR | 12 | 0 | 22 | 218 | 0 | 30 | 9.9 | 22 | 742 | 3 | 97 | 33.7 | 1489 |
| 24 | Tommy Kalmanir | 24 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 116 | 0 | 23 | 8.9 | 13 | 358 | 0 | 44 | 27.5 | 615 | |
| 41 | Glenn Davis* | 26 | LH | 12 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 14 | 8.0 | 8 | 167 | 0 | 29 | 20.9 | 1199 |
| 33 | Jerry Williams | 27 | S | 12 | 0 | 6 | 35 | 0 | 15 | 5.8 | 164 | |||||
| 32 | Dan Towler | 22 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 47 | 0 | 15 | 9.4 | 240 | ||||||
| 30 | Woodley Lewis* | 25 | RDH | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 47 | 0 | 27 | 23.5 | 47 |
| 58 | Jack Finlay | 29 | LG | 10 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 7.0 | 14 | |||||
| 35 | Vic Vasicek | 24 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 19 | 15.0 | 30 | ||||||
| 36 | Ralph Pasquariello | 24 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 14.0 | 47 | ||||||
| 34 | Dave Stephenson | 25 | RG | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | |||||
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 45 | 393 | 0 | 30 | 8.7 | 56 | 1424 | 3 | 97 | 25.4 | 7237 | |||
| Opp Total | 12 | 28 | 0 | 48 | 1411 | 2 | 29.4 | |||||||||
| 0-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ | Tot | PAT | Punting | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | FGA | FGM | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| 7 | Bob Waterfield* | 30 | K/P/qb | 12 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 50.0% | 58 | 54 | 93.1% | 52 | 2087 | 61 | 2 | 40.1 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 24 | QB | 12 | 6 | 11 | 466 | 51 | 0 | 42.4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 40 | Elroy Hirsch | 27 | RE | 12 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | ||||||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 50.0% | 63 | 59 | 93.7% | 63 | 2553 | 61 | 2 | 40.5 | |||||||||||||
| Opp Total | 12 | 13 | 3 | 23.1% | 43 | 42 | 97.7% | 72 | 2830 | 39.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| 30 | Woodley Lewis* | 25 | RDH | 12 | 0 | 12 | 275 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 1 | ||||
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 24 | QB | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 41 | Glenn Davis* | 26 | LH | 12 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 10 | Tom Keane | 24 | LDH | 9 | 0 | 6 | 50 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 77 | Vitamin Smith | 27 | KR/PR | 12 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 32 | Dan Towler | 22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Bob Waterfield* | 30 | K/P/qb | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 40 | Elroy Hirsch | 27 | RE | 12 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 31 | Dick Hoerner* | 28 | FB | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| 55 | Tom Fears*+ | 27 | LE | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 57 | Don Paul | 25 | MLB | 10 | 0 | 3 | 44 | 0 | 32 | 0 | |||||||||
| 33 | Jerry Williams | 27 | S | 12 | 0 | 3 | 39 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||||||||
| 56 | Jack Zilly | 29 | RDE | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 66 | Gil Bouley | 29 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 58 | Jack Finlay | 29 | LG | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 20 | Dick Huffman* | 27 | LDT/LT | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 24 | Tommy Kalmanir | 24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 54 | Bob Reinhard | 30 | RDT/RT | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 80 | Bob Boyd | 22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 86 | Ed Champagne | 28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 22 | Fred Naumetz | 28 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 17 | George Sims | 23 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 79 | Bill Smyth | 28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 21 | Art Statuto | 25 | C | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 44 | Harry Thompson | 24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 35 | Vic Vasicek | 24 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 0 | 52 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 13 | Tank Younger | 22 | RLB | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 31 | 512 | 1 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 28 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 12 | 23 | 31 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
| No. | Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | AllTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Bob Waterfield* | 30 | K/P/qb | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 7 | 81 | ||||||||
| 31 | Dick Hoerner* | 28 | FB | 12 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 11 | 66 | |||||||||
| 77 | Vitamin Smith | 27 | KR/PR | 12 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 48 | ||||||||
| 40 | Elroy Hirsch | 27 | RE | 12 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 47 | |||||||||
| 41 | Glenn Davis* | 26 | LH | 12 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 42 | |||||||||
| 55 | Tom Fears*+ | 27 | LE | 12 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 42 | ||||||||||
| 32 | Dan Towler | 22 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 36 | |||||||||||
| 80 | Bob Boyd | 22 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 24 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Paul Barry | 24 | RH | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 33 | Jerry Williams | 27 | S | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||
| 13 | Tank Younger | 22 | RLB | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||||
| 86 | Ed Champagne | 28 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 24 | Tommy Kalmanir | 24 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Tom Keane | 24 | LDH | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 30 | Woodley Lewis* | 25 | RDH | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 36 | Ralph Pasquariello | 24 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 54 | Bob Reinhard | 30 | RDT/RT | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Norm Van Brocklin* | 24 | QB | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 63 | Larry Brink* | 27 | LDE | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Team Total | 26.0 | 12 | 28 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 59 | 7 | 1 | 466 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 12 | 12 | 26 | 2 | 42 | 3 | 309 |