highest season receiving yardage counts nfl 1960s player

Between the 1960 and 1969 seasons, Charley Hennigan had the most receiving yards in a season, with 1,746 yards in 1961.

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Charley Hennigan C. Hennigan	1,746	1961	HOU	14	82	21.3	124.7	12	0	0		0.0	0
2	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	1,602	1965	SD	14	69	23.2	114.4	14	-12	3	-4.0	-0.9	0
3	Charley Hennigan C. Hennigan	1,546	1964	HOU	14	101	15.3	110.4	8	0	0		0.0	0
4	Bill Groman B. Groman	1,473	1960	HOU	14	72	20.5	105.2	12	0	0		0.0	0
5	Bobby Mitchell B. Mitchell	1,436	1963	WAS	14	69	20.8	102.6	7	24	3	8.0	1.7	0
6	Don Maynard D. Maynard	1,434	1967	NYJ	14	71	20.2	102.4	10	18	4	4.5	1.3	0
7	Bobby Mitchell B. Mitchell	1,384	1962	WAS	14	72	19.2	98.9	11	5	1	5.0	0.4	0
8	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	1,383	1966	SD	13	73	18.9	106.4	13	10	3	3.3	0.8	0
9	Art Powell A. Powell	1,361	1964	OAK	14	76	17.9	97.2	11	0	0		0.0	0
10	Dave Parks D. Parks	1,344	1965	SF	14	80	16.8	96.0	12	0	0		0.0	0
11	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	1,312	1968	SD	14	68	19.3	93.7	10	18	3	6.0	1.3	0
12	Art Powell A. Powell	1,304	1963	OAK	14	73	17.9	93.1	16	0	0		0.0	0
13	Raymond Berry R. Berry	1,298	1960	BAL	12	74	17.5	108.2	10	0	0		0.0	0
14	Don Maynard D. Maynard	1,297	1968	NYJ	13	57	22.8	99.8	10	0	0		0.0	0
15	Otis Taylor O. Taylor	1,297	1966	KC	14	58	22.4	92.6	8	33	2	16.5	2.4	0
16	Buddy Dial B. Dial	1,295	1963	PIT	14	60	21.6	92.5	9	0	0		0.0	0
17	Pat Studstill P. Studstill	1,266	1966	DET	14	67	18.9	90.4	5	20	2	10.0	1.4	0
18	Ben Hawkins B. Hawkins	1,265	1967	PHI	14	59	21.4	90.4	10	0	0		0.0	0
19	Don Maynard D. Maynard	1,265	1960	NYT	14	72	17.6	90.4	6	0	0		0.0	0
20	Warren Wells W. Wells	1,260	1969	OAK	14	47	26.8	90.0	14	24	3	8.0	1.7	0
21	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	1,235	1964	SD	12	61	20.2	102.9	13	60	3	20.0	5.0	2
22	Lionel Taylor L. Taylor	1,235	1960	DEN	12	92	13.4	102.9	12	-6	2	-3.0	-0.5	0
23	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	1,232	1966	DAL	14	64	19.3	88.0	13	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
24	Don Maynard D. Maynard	1,218	1965	NYJ	14	68	17.9	87.0	14	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
25	Homer Jones H. Jones	1,209	1967	NYG	14	49	24.7	86.4	13	60	5	12.0	4.3	1

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