1956 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

9-3-0

2nd in Western Conference

Scored 25.0 PPG (2nd)

Allowed 15.7 PPG (3rd)

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1956 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	300	4,206	815	5.2	2,011	507	4.0	2,250	301	7.5	7	55	247	122	111	14	66	668
Team Rank		2nd	3rd	1st	5th	5th	3rd	7th	4th	4th	5th	2nd	11th	1st	3rd	2nd	4th	9th	12th
Opponent	12	188	3,408	688	5.0	1,503	373	4.0	2,045	297	6.9	18	140	181	81	84	16
Opponent Rank		3rd	6th	1st	8th	3rd	1st	6th	7th	9th	5th	7th	4th	2nd	2nd	6th	9th
Net		+112	+798	+127	+0.2	+508	+134	-0.1	+205	+4	+0.6	-11	-85	+66	+41	+27	-2	+66	+668
Net Rank		2nd	2nd	1st	4th	3rd	2nd	6th	3rd	6th	4th	3rd	10th	1st	3rd	1st	6th	9th	12th

1956 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	129	244	52.9	20.3	1,909	7.8	159.1	9	3.7	17	7.0	70			62.0
	Harry Gilmer	11	27	46	58.7	4.2	303	6.6	27.5	4	8.7	3	6.5	41			80.3
	Jerry Reichow	8	3	6	50.0	0.8	19	3.2	2.4	0	0.0	1	16.7	14			17.4
	Howard Cassady	12	0	2	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	50.0				0.0
	Jug Girard	10	1	1	100.0	0.1	19	19.0	1.9	0	0.0	0	0.0	19			118.8
	Don McIlhenny	9	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Bill Stits	12	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0				0.0

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Gene Gedman	12	135	11.3	479	3.5	39.9	7	33	150	621
	Howard Cassady	12	97	8.1	413	4.3	34.4	0	33	106	496
	Don McIlhenny	9	87	9.7	372	4.3	41.3	3	30	95	442
	Leon Hart	11	76	6.9	348	4.6	31.6	5	46	90	464
	Bobby Layne	12	46	3.8	169	3.7	14.1	5	20	46	169
	Bill Bowman	6	20	3.3	84	4.2	14.0	1	13	25	118
	Jug Girard	10	17	1.7	67	3.9	6.7	0	11	20	100
	Tom Tracy	4	12	3	32	2.7	8.0	0	9	15	38
	Harry Gilmer	11	8	0.7	19	2.4	1.7	0	6	8	19
	Dave Middleton	12	3	0.3	9	3.0	0.8	0	10	42	615
	Bill Stits	12	3	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0	6	6	52
	Yale Lary	12	1	0.1	10	10.0	0.8	0	10	1	10
	Dorne Dibble	12	1	0.1	8	8.0	0.7	0	8	33	605
	Jerry Reichow	8	1	0.1	1	1.0	0.1	0	1	5	64

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Dave Middleton	12	39		3.3	606	15.5	50.5	5	56	42	615
	Dorne Dibble	12	32		2.7	597	18.7	49.8	2	56	33	605
	Jim Doran	11	25		2.3	448	17.9	40.7	0	70	25	448
	Gene Gedman	12	15		1.3	142	9.5	11.8	1	43	150	621
	Leon Hart	11	14		1.3	116	8.3	10.5	1	29	90	464
	Howard Cassady	12	9		0.8	83	9.2	6.9	0	21	106	496
	Don McIlhenny	9	8		0.9	70	8.8	7.8	2	21	95	442
	Bill Bowman	6	5		0.8	34	6.8	5.7	1	18	25	118
	Jerry Reichow	8	4		0.5	63	15.8	7.9	1	41	5	64
	Bill Stits	12	3		0.3	52	17.3	4.3	0	27	6	52
	Jug Girard	10	3		0.3	33	11.0	3.3	0	16	20	100
	Tom Tracy	4	3		0.8	6	2.0	1.5	0	5	15	38

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Yale Lary	12							8	182	22.8	1	73
	Jack Christiansen	12							8	109	13.6	0	33
	Jim David	12							7	4	0.6	0	3
	Bob Long	12							2	47	23.5	0	40
	Bill Stits	12							1	11	11	0	11
	Joe Schmidt	12							1	7	7	0	7
	Carl Karilivacz	11							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bobby Layne	12	5	0	0	5	12	33		0	99
	Gene Gedman	12	7	1	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Leon Hart	11	5	1	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Don McIlhenny	9	3	2	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Dave Middleton	12	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Jim Martin	12	0	0	0	0	4	3		0	15
	Bill Bowman	6	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Dorne Dibble	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jack Christiansen	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Yale Lary	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jerry Reichow	8	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Howard Cassady	12	16	83	6.4	0	34	13
	Yale Lary	12	4	70	3.2	0	38	22
	Jack Christiansen	12	6	73	12.2	1	66	6
	Bill Stits	12	3	0		0		0
	Bill Bowman	6	1	0		0		0
	Charlie Ane	12	1	0		0		0
	Jim Salsbury	11	1	0		0		0
	Jerry Reichow	8	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
	Bobby Layne	12	12	15	80.0						33	33	100.0	69
	Jim Martin	12	4	10	40.0						3	3	100.0	15

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Yale Lary	12	42	1,698	40.4	41	0
	Jug Girard	10	10	448	44.8	54	0