1953 Chicago Bears Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Chicago Bears

3-8-1

4th in Western Conference

Scored 18.2 PPG (6th)

Allowed 21.8 PPG (7th)

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1953 Regular Season Team Stats

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	SCK	SCKY	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	12	218	3,628	830	4.4	1,129	367	3.1	2,637	446	5.9	17	138	214	79	119	16	61	530
Team Rank		6th	6th	3rd	7th	11th	11th	11th	4th	1st	7th	2nd	11th	3rd	8th	3rd	2nd	5th	4th
Opponent	12	262	4,152	820	5.1	1,776	437	4.1	2,530	364	7.0	19	154	213	94	109	10
Opponent Rank		7th	11th	11th	10th	10th	9th	7th	10th	7th	8th	12th	1st	10th	7th	10th	3rd
Net		-44	-524	+10	-0.7	-647	-70	-1.0	+107	+82	-1.0	-2	-16	+1	-15	+10	+6	+61	+530
Net Rank		7th	8th	5th	8th	11th	11th	11th	6th	1st	7th	4th	9th	7th	9th	4th	1st	5th	4th

1953 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	George Blanda	12	169	362	46.7	30.2	2,164	6.0	180.3	14	3.9	23	6.4	72			52.3
	Tommy O'Connell	12	33	67	49.3	5.6	437	6.5	36.4	1	1.5	4	6.0	40			50.4
	Willie Thrower	1	3	8	37.5	8	27	3.4	27.0	0	0.0	1	12.5	12			7.8
	Steve Romanik	1	1	8	12.5	8	9	1.1	9.0	0	0.0	2	25.0	9			0.0
	Eddie Macon	12	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Fred Morrison	12	95	7.9	307	3.2	25.6	2	17	111	521
	Billy Stone	12	72	6	169	2.3	14.1	2	28	106	545
	John Dottley	10	58	5.8	150	2.6	15.0	1	12	63	171
	Eddie Macon	12	40	3.3	130	3.3	10.8	1	17	46	154
	John Hoffman	12	32	2.7	95	3.0	7.9	3	34	60	436
	George Blanda	12	24	2	62	2.6	5.2	0	16	24	69
	Leon Campbell	12	22	1.8	130	5.9	10.8	0	39	27	204
	Bobby Jack Floyd	8	16	2	70	4.4	8.8	0	16	25	133
	Tommy O'Connell	12	7	0.6	16	2.3	1.3	0	17	7	16
	Steve Romanik	1	1	1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jim Dooley	12	53		4.4	841	15.9	70.1	4	72	53	841
	Bill McColl	12	36		3	453	12.6	37.8	4	55	36	453
	Billy Stone	12	34		2.8	376	11.1	31.3	4	51	106	545
	John Hoffman	12	28		2.3	341	12.2	28.4	1	40	60	436
	Fred Morrison	12	16		1.3	214	13.4	17.8	0	44	111	521
	Bobby Jack Floyd	8	9		1.1	63	7.0	7.9	0	16	25	133
	Eddie Macon	12	6		0.5	24	4.0	2.0	2	10	46	154
	Leon Campbell	12	5		0.4	74	14.8	6.2	0	47	27	204
	John Dottley	10	5		0.5	21	4.2	2.1	0	8	63	171
	Dick Hensley	11	4		0.4	117	29.3	10.6	0	50	4	117
	Lloyd Lowe	7	4		0.6	34	8.5	4.9	0	11	4	34
	Billy Anderson	12	3		0.3	33	11.0	2.8	0	16	3	33
	Bill Wightkin	12	2		0.2	22	11.0	1.8	0	13	2	22
	George Connor	12	1		0.1	17	17.0	1.4	0	17	1	17

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Don Kindt	12							6	172	28.7	1	67
	S.J. Whitman	9							2	36	18	0	30
	Bill Bishop	12							1	30	30	0	30
	John Hoffman	12							1	27	27	0	27
	Bones Weatherly	12							1	13	13	0	13
	Lloyd Lowe	7							1	6	6	0	6
	George Figner	5							1	4	4	0	4
	Rex Proctor	3							1	4	4	0	4

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	George Blanda	12	0	0	0	0	7	27		0	48
	Billy Stone	12	2	4	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Bill McColl	12	0	4	1	5	0	0		0	30
	Jim Dooley	12	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	John Hoffman	12	3	1	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Eddie Macon	12	1	2	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Fred Morrison	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	John Dottley	10	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Don Kindt	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Ed Sprinkle	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Bill Wightkin	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Dick Hensley	11	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Eddie Macon	12	13	68	4.0	0	15	17
	Leon Campbell	12	19	0		0		0
	Lloyd Lowe	7	1	51	3.4	0	28	15
	Billy Anderson	12	5	7	7.0	0	7	1
	Fred Morrison	12	4	0		0		0
	John Hoffman	12	2	0		0		0
	George Connor	12	1	0		0		0
	John Helwig	12	1	0		0		0
	Ed Sprinkle	12	1	0		0		0
	Bill Wightkin	12	1	0		0		0

Kicking

		GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	George Blanda	12	7	20	35.0						27	27	100.0	48
	Bill George	12	0	1	0.0						0	0		0

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Fred Morrison	12	65	2,766	42.6	65	2
	Billy Anderson	12	1	46	46.0	46	0