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1949 San Francisco 49ers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 9-3-0, 2nd in AAFC (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Buck Shaw (9-3-0)

Points For: 416 (34.7/g) 1st of 7

Points Against: 227 (18.9/g) 3rd of 7

Expected W-L: 9.7-2.3

SRS: 13.50 (1st of 7), SOS: -2.25

Playoffs:
Won Divisional Round 17-7 vs. New York Yankees
Lost Championship 7-21 vs. Cleveland Browns

Other Notable Asst.: Eddie Erdelatz (Defensive Coach)

Stadium: Kezar Stadium

Founder/Principal Owner: Tony Morabito

General Manager: John Blackinger

Training Camp: Menlo College (Atherton, California)

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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	416	4793	807	5.9	42	22	175	139	287	1995	28	20	6.6	53	506	2798	26	5.5	117	65	595	5
Opp. Stats	227	3313	751	4.4	47	15	150	137	318	1949	15	32	5.6	68	401	1364	12	3.4	74	51	374	8
Lg Rank Offense	1	1			4	7	3		4	4	1	3	3		2	1	1	1
Lg Rank Defense	3	1			2	6	3		7	4	4	1	2		3	2	2	2

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 28		boxscore	W		1-0		Baltimore Colts	31	17	17	340	111	229	4	8	137	78	59	3
2	Sun	September 4		boxscore	W		2-0		Chicago Hornets	42	7	16	438	90	348	4	17	193	118	75	7
4	Sun	September 18		boxscore	W		3-0		Los Angeles Dons	42	14	9	408	164	244	6	17	215	120	95	6
5	Sun	September 25		boxscore	L		3-1	@	Buffalo Bills	17	28	9	214	81	133		20	445	224	221	1
6	Fri	September 30		boxscore	W		4-1	@	Chicago Hornets	42	24	17	493	136	357	3	10	342	251	91	4
7	Sun	October 9		boxscore	W		5-1		Cleveland Browns	56	28	17	480	224	256	4	10	367	281	86	6
8	Sun	October 16		boxscore	W		6-1		Buffalo Bills	51	7	16	433	123	310	3	10	178	167	11	4
9	Sun	October 23		boxscore	L		6-2	@	New York Yankees	3	24	8	159	110	49	7	7	172	14	158	3
10	Sun	October 30		boxscore	L		6-3	@	Cleveland Browns	28	30	19	477	253	224		17	372	243	129
11	Sun	November 6		boxscore	W		7-3	@	Baltimore Colts	28	10	18	407	112	295	3	13	213	95	118	5
12	Sun	November 13		boxscore	W		8-3	@	Los Angeles Dons	41	24	12	408	220	188	3	14	285	74	211	4
14	Sun	November 27		boxscore	W		9-3		New York Yankees	35	14	17	383	218	165	5	7	135	25	110	4
		Playoffs
Division	Sun	December 4		boxscore	W		10-3		New York Yankees	17	7	10	260	96	164	3	9	191	116	75	3
Championship	Sun	December 11		boxscore	L		10-4	@	Cleveland Browns	7	21	14	230	108	122		16	345	128	217

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	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Frankie Albert	29	QB	12	9	129	260	49.6	1862	27	10.4	16	6.2	75	7.2	6.47	14.4	155.2	82.2	14	153	5.11	6.24	5.58	0	1	AP-2
2	Bev Wallace	26		9	1	9	23	39.1	95	0	0.0	4	17.4		4.1	-3.70	10.6	10.6	12.3						0	0
3	Jim Cason	22	LH	12	6	1	2	50.0	38	1	50.0	0	0.0	38	19.0	29.00	38.0	3.2	135.4						0	0
4	Joe Perry	22	FB	11	5	0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6						0	0	AP-2
	Team Totals			12	12	139	287	48.4	1995	28	9.8	20	7.0	75	7.5	5.77	15.5	166.3	77.1		153				0	1

Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	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	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Frankie Albert	29	QB	2	2	1-1-0	17	41	41.5	204	2	4.9	2	4.9	30	5.0	3.76	12.0	102.0	53.3	4	39	8.89	3.67	2.56	0	0
2	Verl Lillywhite	23	RH	1	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0.0	0.00		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	1-1-0	17	42	40.5	204	2	4.8	2	4.8	50	5.0	3.67	13.9	102.0	66.2		39

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	Joe Perry	22	FB	11	5	115	783	8	59	6.8	71.2	10.5	11	146	13.3	3		1.0	13.3	126	7.4	929	11	0	AP-2
2	Alyn Beals	28	RE	12	8	4	32	0		8.0	2.7	0.3	44	678	15.4	12		3.7	56.5	48	14.8	710	12	0	AP-2
3	Sam Cathcart	25		12	0	69	412	1	57	6.0	34.3	5.8	12	182	15.2	0	72	1.0	15.2	81	7.3	594	1	0
4	Johnny Strzykalski	28		7	4	66	287	3	44	4.3	41.0	9.4	6	99	16.5	1		0.9	14.1	72	5.4	386	4	0
5	Verl Lillywhite	23	RH	12	3	69	263	2		3.8	21.9	5.8	8	82	10.3	2		0.7	6.8	77	4.5	345	4	0
6	Paul Salata	23		12	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	24	289	12.0	4		2.0	24.1	24	12.0	289	4	0
7	Eddie Carr	26		7	2	19	120	2		6.3	17.1	2.7	7	165	23.6	3		1.0	23.6	26	11.0	285	5	0
8	Len Eshmont	32	LH	12	6	25	164	0		6.6	13.7	2.1	3	107	35.7	2		0.3	8.9	28	9.7	271	2	0
9	Frankie Albert	29	QB	12	9	35	249	3		7.1	20.8	2.9	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	35	7.1	249	3	0	AP-2
10	Norm Standlee	30	FB	12	8	44	237	4		5.4	19.8	3.7	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	44	5.4	237	4	0
11	Don Garlin	23		11	0	21	113	1	60	5.4	10.3	1.9	6	64	10.7	0		0.5	5.8	27	6.6	177	1	0
12	Jim Cason	22	LH	12	6	21	70	1		3.3	5.8	1.8	5	38	7.6	0		0.4	3.2	26	4.2	108	1	0
13	Hal Shoener	26	LE	12	10	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	7	84	12.0	0		0.6	7.0	7	12.0	84	0	0
14	Nick Susoeff	28		11	1	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	5	52	10.4	1		0.5	4.7	5	10.4	52	1	0
15	Joe Vetrano	31		12	0	11	50	0		4.5	4.2	0.9	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	11	4.5	50	0	0
16	Lowell Wagner	26		10	3	3	17	0		5.7	1.7	0.3	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	3	5.7	17	0	0
17	Gail Bruce	26		12	4	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	9	9.0	0	9	0.1	0.8	1	9.0	9	0	0
18	Bev Wallace	26		9	1	2	2	1		1.0	0.2	0.2	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	1.0	2	1	0
19	Paul Crowe	25		2	1	2	0	0		0.0	0.0	1.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	0.0	0	0	0
20	Joe Morgan	21		8	0	0	-1	0	-1		-0.1	0.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	0		-1	0	0
	Team Totals			12	12	506	2798	26	60	5.5	233.2	42.2	139	1995	14.4	28	75	11.6	166.3	645	7.4	4793	54	47

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	Frankie Albert	29	QB	2	2	14	92	0		6.6	46.0	7.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	14	6.6	92	0	0
2	Sam Cathcart	25		2	1	13	22	0		1.7	11.0	6.5	2	30	15.0	0	20	1.0	15.0	15	3.5	52	0	0
3	Norm Standlee	30	FB	2	2	14	50	0		3.6	25.0	7.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	14	3.6	50	0	0
4	Don Garlin	23		2	0	7	29	0		4.1	14.5	3.5	2	16	8.0	1	10	1.0	8.0	9	5.0	45	1	0
5	Paul Salata	23		2	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	4	45	11.3	1	23	2.0	22.5	4	11.3	45	1	0
6	Verl Lillywhite	23	RH	1	0	5	41	1	40	8.2	41.0	5.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	5	8.2	41	1	0
7	Hal Shoener	26	LE	2	2	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	3	37	12.3	0	12	1.5	18.5	3	12.3	37	0	0
8	Joe Perry	22	FB	2	2	10	33	0		3.3	16.5	5.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	10	3.3	33	0	0
9	Alyn Beals	28	RE	2	2	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	4	32	8.0	0	6	2.0	16.0	4	8.0	32	0	0
10	Jim Cason	22	LH	1	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	30	30.0	0	30	1.0	30.0	1	30.0	30	0	0
11	Lowell Wagner	26		1	0	2	17	0		8.5	17.0	2.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	2	8.5	17	0	0
12	Gail Bruce	26		1	0	0	0	0			0.0	0.0	1	4	4.0	0	4	1.0	4.0	1	4.0	4	0	0
13	Len Eshmont	32	LH	1	0	1	2	0	2	2.0	2.0	1.0	0	0		0		0.0	0.0	1	2.0	2	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	66	286	1	16	4.3	143.0	33.0	17	194	11.4	2	30	8.5	97.0	83	5.8	480	3	6

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Defense & Fumbles

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Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions				Fumbles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Sfty	Awards
1	Don Clark	26	LG	12	10	1	16	0	16	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
2	Bill Johnson	23	C	12	10	1	16	1	16	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	Jim Cason	22	LH	12	6	9	152	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
4	Len Eshmont	32	LH	12	6	3	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
5	Gail Bruce	26		12	4	1	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
6	Verl Lillywhite	23	RH	12	3	1	9	0	9	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
7	Lowell Wagner	26		10	3	6	121	1	66	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	Eddie Carr	26		7	2	7	87	1	40	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
9	Pete Wismann	27		12	2	1	12	0	12	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
10	Sam Cathcart	25		12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	Don Garlin	23		11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
	Team Totals			12	12	32	0	3		47	25	0	0	32	1

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	Jim Cason	22	LH	1	0	2	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
2	Lowell Wagner	26		1	0	1	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2						6	0	0	0			0

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