Between the 1940 and 1949 seasons, Bill Dudley and George McAfee were tied for the most touchdown returns, with 7 touchdown returns.

Interpreted as:

most return touchdowns by a player 1940 to 1949

	NAME	RET TD	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Bill Dudley B. Dudley	7	54	66	1,452	22.0	26.9	1	82	1,124	13.7	20.8	2
2	George McAfee G. McAfee	7	63	17	465	27.4	8.8	2	79	1,147	14.5	21.6	2
3	Steve Van Buren S. Van Buren	5	63	71	1,920	27.0	30.5	3	34	473	13.9	7.5	2
4	Emlen Tunnell E. Tunnell	4	22	3	47	15.7	2.1	0	38	430	11.3	19.5	1
5	Bill Blackburn B. Blackburn	4	47	1	4	4.0	0.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Ray McLean R. McLean	4	76	22	492	22.4	7.5	0	42	622	14.8	9.4	3
7	Jerry Davis J. Davis	3	20	15	437	29.1	21.9	0	17	348	20.5	17.4	2
8	Dan Sandifer D. Sandifer	3	24	50	1,112	22.2	46.3	1	38	435	11.4	18.1	0
9	Joe Golding J. Golding	3	35	29	654	22.6	18.7	0	22	219	10.0	6.3	0
10	Ralph Heywood R. Heywood	3	34	1	8	8.0	0.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Charley Trippi C. Trippi	3	35	49	1,102	22.5	31.5	0	29	514	17.7	14.7	2
12	Tony Compagno T. Compagno	3	34	3	59	19.7	1.7	0	4	21	5.3	0.6	0
13	Tom Harmon T. Harmon	3	22	15	342	22.8	15.5	0	32	449	14.0	20.4	1
14	Jim White J. White	3	44	1	6	6.0	0.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Howie Livingston H. Livingston	3	59	18	451	25.1	7.6	0	17	150	8.8	2.5	0
16	Don Currivan D. Currivan	3	75	3	31	10.3	0.4	0	1	22	22.0	0.3	0
17	Ted Fritsch T. Fritsch	3	87	35	917	26.2	10.5	0	1	31	31.0	0.4	0
18	Bosh Pritchard B. Pritchard	3	49	34	818	24.1	16.7	1	84	925	11.0	18.9	1
19	Ed Cifers E. Cifers	3	56	4	33	8.3	0.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Harry Hopp H. Hopp	3	30	8	165	20.6	5.5	0	10	79	7.9	2.6	0
21	Charley Brock C. Brock	3	82	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Fred Gehrke F. Gehrke	3	58	36	852	23.7	15.5	1	39	508	13.0	9.2	1
23	Bulldog Turner B. Turner	3	102	3	12	4.0	0.1	0	1	9	9.0	0.1	0
24	Fred Evans F. Evans	2	3	0	0		0.0	0	1	15	15.0	5.0	0
25	Red Cochran R. Cochran	2	36	25	462	18.5	12.8	0	33	583	17.7	16.2	2

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