1955 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

3-9-0

6th in Western Conference

Scored 19.2 PPG (8th)

Allowed 22.9 PPG (9th)

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1955 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	230	3,887	809	4.8	1,477	392	3.8	2,542	400	6.4	17	132	224	88	119	17	51	526
Team Rank		8th	4th	5th	5th	10th	11th	9th	3rd	1st	9th	2nd	11th	3rd	9th	2nd	5th	3rd	4th
Opponent	12	275	4,015	771	5.2	1,851	449	4.1	2,304	304	7.6	18	140	217	95	110	12
Opponent Rank		9th	10th	6th	11th	7th	7th	9th	9th	4th	12th	9th	4th	8th	5th	10th	3rd
Net		-45	-128	+38	-0.4	-374	-57	-0.4	+238	+96	-1.2	-1	-8	+7	-7	+9	+5	+51	+526
Net Rank		10th	7th	5th	9th	10th	9th	8th	4th	3rd	12th	7th	6th	6th	6th	5th	3rd	3rd	4th

1955 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	143	270	53.0	22.5	1,830	6.8	152.5	11	4.1	17	6.3	77			61.8
	Harry Gilmer	8	58	122	47.5	15.3	633	5.2	79.1	2	1.6	4	3.3	34			55.1
	Doak Walker	12	0	3	0.0	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Bill Stits	12	2	2	100.0	0.2	62	31.0	5.2	1	50.0	0	0.0	41			158.3
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	5	1	2	50.0	0.4	17	8.5	3.4	1	50.0	1	50.0	17			79.2
	Jug Girard	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
	Lew Carpenter	12	137	11.4	543	4.0	45.3	6	49	181	855
	Dave Middleton	12	59	4.9	201	3.4	16.8	2	16	103	864
	Bill Stits	12	46	3.8	165	3.6	13.8	0	15	51	182
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	5	36	7.2	109	3.0	21.8	1	10	41	145
	Leon Hart	11	35	3.2	159	4.5	14.5	0	21	44	213
	Bobby Layne	12	31	2.6	111	3.6	9.3	0	19	31	111
	Doak Walker	12	23	1.9	95	4.1	7.9	2	51	45	523
	Harry Gilmer	8	15	1.9	67	4.5	8.4	0	19	15	67
	Jug Girard	12	10	0.8	27	2.7	2.3	0	10	33	328

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Dave Middleton	12	44		3.7	663	15.1	55.3	3	77	103	864
	Lew Carpenter	12	44		3.7	312	7.1	26.0	2	34	181	855
	Jim Doran	10	38		3.8	552	14.5	55.2	2	38	38	552
	Jug Girard	12	23		1.9	301	13.1	25.1	0	34	33	328
	Doak Walker	12	22		1.8	428	19.5	35.7	5	70	45	523
	Dorne Dibble	8	14		1.8	179	12.8	22.4	2	44	14	179
	Leon Hart	11	9		0.8	54	6.0	4.9	1	14	44	213
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	5	5		1	36	7.2	7.2	0	15	41	145
	Bill Stits	12	5		0.4	17	3.4	1.4	0	14	51	182

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jack Christiansen	9							3	49	16.3	0	29
	Jim David	12							3	44	14.7	0	28
	Bill Stits	12							3	7	2.3	1	7
	Lee Riley	12							2	38	19	0	23
	Carl Karilivacz	12							2	33	16.5	0	23
	Jim Ricca	6							1	33	33	0	33
	Doak Walker	12							1	20	20	0	20

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Doak Walker	12	2	5	0	7	9	27		0	96
	Lew Carpenter	12	6	2	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Dave Middleton	12	2	3	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Dorne Dibble	8	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jim Doran	10	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Sonny Gandee	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Leon Hart	11	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bob Hoernschemeyer	5	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Gil Mains	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Bill Stits	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Bob Long	10	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jack Christiansen	9	7	87	7.3	0	42	12
	Lee Riley	12	5	107	7.6	0	20	14
	Jug Girard	12	7	25	2.8	0	7	9
	Dave Middleton	12	11	0		0		0
	Leon Hart	11	4	0		0		0
	Lew Carpenter	12	4	0		0		0
	Doak Walker	12	1	5	2.5	0	5	2
	Joe Schmidt	12	1	0	0.0	0	0	1
	Jim Martin	9	1	0		0		0
	Leon Cunningham	8	1	0		0		0
	Ted Topor	6	1	0		0		0
	Richie Woit	1	1	0		0		0
	Sonny Gandee	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	9	16	56.3						27	29	93.1	54
	Jim Martin	9	0	1	0.0						0	0		0

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Jug Girard	12	56	2,310	41.3	65	0
	Doak Walker	12	9	362	40.2	59	0
	Dom Fucci	12	2	72	36.0	55	0