Between the 1956 and 1965 seasons, Abe Woodson scored the most kick-return yards, with 5,538 yards.

Interpreted as:

most kickoff return yards by a player 1956 to 1965

	NAME	KR YDS	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Abe Woodson A. Woodson	5,538	102	193	28.7	54.3	5	123	956	7.8	9.4	2
2	Dick James D. James	4,676	117	189	24.7	40.0	0	120	952	7.9	8.1	0
3	Timmy Brown T. Brown	3,620	77	136	26.6	47.0	3	54	514	9.5	6.7	1
4	Al Carmichael A. Carmichael	3,208	52	131	24.5	61.7	1	83	581	7.0	11.2	0
5	Jon Arnett J. Arnett	3,071	109	124	24.8	28.2	2	105	923	8.8	8.5	1
6	Bo Roberson B. Roberson	3,057	70	130	23.5	43.7	1	3	54	18.0	0.8	0
7	Bobby Jancik B. Jancik	2,961	56	108	27.4	52.9	0	51	566	11.1	10.1	1
8	Bill Butler B. Butler	2,886	75	132	21.9	38.5	0	88	850	9.7	11.3	2
9	Dick Christy D. Christy	2,770	64	117	23.7	43.3	0	67	905	13.5	14.1	4
10	Bobby Mitchell B. Mitchell	2,455	106	91	27.0	23.2	5	64	678	10.6	6.4	3
11	Dave Grayson D. Grayson	2,265	69	85	26.6	32.8	1	2	2	1.0	0.0	0
12	Abner Haynes A. Haynes	2,227	84	86	25.9	26.5	1	69	719	10.4	8.6	1
13	Herb Adderley H. Adderley	2,222	69	82	27.1	32.2	2	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
14	Larry Garron L. Garron	2,177	67	84	25.9	32.5	2	1	23	23.0	0.3	0
15	Lenny Lyles L. Lyles	2,161	95	81	26.7	22.7	3	0	0		0.0	0
16	Tom Watkins T. Watkins	2,077	61	80	26.0	34.0	0	79	913	11.6	15.0	3
17	Pat Studstill P. Studstill	1,924	56	75	25.7	34.4	1	59	716	12.1	12.8	0
18	Tom Moore T. Moore	1,882	78	71	26.5	24.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Kermit Alexander K. Alexander	1,862	42	76	24.5	44.3	0	56	451	8.1	10.7	1
20	Odell Barry O. Barry	1,856	26	73	25.4	71.4	0	37	359	9.7	13.8	1
21	Ollie Matson O. Matson	1,761	121	65	27.1	14.6	3	32	164	5.1	1.4	0
22	Clarence Childs C. Childs	1,705	27	63	27.1	63.1	1	6	40	6.7	1.5	0
23	Billy Cannon B. Cannon	1,704	72	67	25.4	23.7	1	13	166	12.8	2.3	0
24	Tommy Wilson T. Wilson	1,689	91	62	27.2	18.6	1	3	28	9.3	0.3	0
25	Mel Renfro M. Renfro	1,647	28	61	27.0	58.8	1	56	563	10.1	20.1	1

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