1953 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

10-2-0

1st in Western Conference

Champions (3rd championship)

Scored 22.6 PPG (5th)

Allowed 17.1 PPG (2nd)

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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	271	3,958	763	5.2	1,812	427	4.2	2,309	316	7.3	20	163	206	105	96	5	52	427
Team Rank		5th	5th	8th	5th	3rd	3rd	3rd	6th	10th	5th	3rd	10th	6th	2nd	7th	11th	3rd	3rd
Opponent	12	205	3,545	783	4.5	1,580	404	3.9	2,162	354	6.1	25	197	194	91	96	7
Opponent Rank		2nd	5th	7th	7th	7th	7th	6th	3rd	5th	5th	8th	4th	4th	5th	6th	1st
Net		+66	+413	-20	+0.7	+232	+23	+0.3	+147	-38	+1.2	-5	-34	+12	+14	0	-2	+52	+427
Net Rank		5th	5th	8th	5th	5th	5th	5th	5th	9th	5th	3rd	10th	5th	4th	6th	8th	3rd	3rd

1953 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Bobby Layne	12	125	273	45.8	22.8	2,088	7.6	174.0	16	5.9	21	7.7	97			59.6
	Tom Dublinski	7	14	30	46.7	4.3	174	5.8	24.9	0	0.0	5	16.7	26			25.6
	Doak Walker	12	3	7	42.9	0.6	31	4.4	2.6	1	14.3	0	0.0	23			95.8
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	12	2	5	40.0	0.4	16	3.2	1.3	1	20.0	1	20.0	8			48.8
	Jug Girard	11	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
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	12	101	8.4	482	4.8	40.2	7	49	124	764
	Bobby Layne	12	87	7.3	343	3.9	28.6	0	23	87	343
	Gene Gedman	12	83	6.9	255	3.1	21.3	3	27	97	376
	Doak Walker	12	66	5.5	337	5.1	28.1	2	50	96	839
	Ollie Cline	12	42	3.5	169	4.0	14.1	0	31	52	295
	Jug Girard	11	19	1.7	73	3.8	6.6	0	17	21	97
	Pat Harder	5	8	1.6	21	2.6	4.2	0	10	9	40
	Lew Carpenter	12	7	0.6	24	3.4	2.0	0	13	7	24
	Bob Smith	3	6	2	51	8.5	17.0	0	30	7	62
	Tom Dublinski	7	6	0.9	39	6.5	5.6	0	17	6	39
	Yale Lary	11	1	0.1	21	21.0	1.9	0	21	1	21
	Leon Hart	12	1	0.1	2	2.0	0.2	0	2	26	474

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Doak Walker	12	30		2.5	502	16.7	41.8	3	83	96	839
	Leon Hart	12	25		2.1	472	18.9	39.3	7	49	26	474
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	12	23		1.9	282	12.3	23.5	2	35	124	764
	Cloyce Box	12	16		1.3	403	25.2	33.6	2	97	16	403
	Dorne Dibble	12	16		1.3	274	17.1	22.8	3	47	16	274
	Gene Gedman	12	14		1.2	121	8.6	10.1	0	25	97	376
	Ollie Cline	12	10		0.8	126	12.6	10.5	1	28	52	295
	Jim Doran	7	6		0.9	75	12.5	10.7	0	30	6	75
	Jug Girard	11	2		0.2	24	12.0	2.2	0	15	21	97
	Pat Harder	5	1		0.2	19	19.0	3.8	0	19	9	40
	Bob Smith	3	1		0.3	11	11.0	3.7	0	11	7	62

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jack Christiansen	12							12	238	19.8	1	92
	Yale Lary	11							5	98	19.6	0	32
	LaVern Torgeson	11							5	27	5.4	0	10
	Jim David	12							4	50	12.5	0	21
	Bob Smith	12							3	119	39.7	0	73
	Joe Schmidt	12							2	51	25.5	0	30
	Lew Carpenter	12							1	73	73	1	73
	Harley Sewell	12							1	4	4	0	4
	Thurman McGraw	11							1	2	2	0	2
	Les Bingaman	12							1	1	1	0	1
	Sonny Gandee	8							1	0	0	0	0
	Jim Martin	8							1	0	0	0	0
	Bob Miller	12							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Doak Walker	12	2	3	0	5	12	27		0	93
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	12	7	2	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Leon Hart	12	0	7	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Dorne Dibble	12	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Gene Gedman	12	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Cloyce Box	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jim Martin	8	0	0	0	0	2	4		0	10
	Lew Carpenter	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jack Christiansen	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Ollie Cline	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Yale Lary	11	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Yale Lary	11	6	115	8.8	1	74	13
	Jug Girard	11	9	86	9.6	0	41	9
	Jack Christiansen	12	10	22	2.8	0	10	8
	Lew Carpenter	12	8	0		0		0
	Gene Gedman	12	2	10	2.5	0	5	4
	Doak Walker	12	4	0		0		0
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	12	1	0		0		0
	Dick Stanfel	12	1	0		0		0
	Les Bingaman	12	1	0		0		0
	Ollie Cline	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
	Doak Walker	12	12	19	63.2						27	29	93.1	63
	Jim Martin	8	2	4	50.0						4	4	100.0	10

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bob Smith	12	40	1,647	41.2	57	0
	Yale Lary	11	28	1,112	39.7	61	0