1956 New York Giants Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New York Giants

8-3-1

1st in Eastern Conference

Champions (4th championship)

Scored 22.0 PPG (5th)

Allowed 16.4 PPG (4th)

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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	264	3,696	778	4.8	2,129	499	4.3	1,601	275	5.8	4	34	223	124	82	17	52	474
Team Rank		5th	7th	3rd	7th	3rd	5th	5th	8th	7th	11th	1st	12th	4th	2nd	8th	2nd	3rd	4th
Opponent	12	197	3,081	744	4.1	1,443	415	3.5	1,890	297	6.4	32	252	188	82	90	16
Opponent Rank		4th	1st	5th	1st	1st	3rd	1st	6th	9th	4th	1st	12th	3rd	3rd	7th	9th
Net		+67	+615	+34	+0.6	+686	+84	+0.8	-289	-22	-0.5	-28	-218	+35	+42	-8	+1	+52	+474
Net Rank		3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	2nd	3rd	3rd	11th	8th	9th	1st	12th	3rd	2nd	8th	4th	3rd	4th

1956 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Charlie Conerly	12	90	174	51.7	14.5	1,143	6.6	95.3	10	5.7	7	4.0	48			75.0
	Don Heinrich	12	37	88	42.0	7.3	369	4.2	30.8	5	5.7	5	5.7	43			49.9
	Bobby Clatterbuck	2	4	7	57.1	3.5	54	7.7	27.0	0	0.0	1	14.3	21			42.3
	Frank Gifford	12	2	5	40.0	0.4	35	7.0	2.9	2	40.0	1	20.0	29			64.6
	Kyle Rote	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
	Alex Webster	12	178	14.8	694	3.9	57.8	7	34	199	891
	Frank Gifford	12	159	13.3	819	5.2	68.3	5	69	210	1,422
	Mel Triplett	12	125	10.4	515	4.1	42.9	5	25	131	563
	Gene Filipski	12	13	1.1	85	6.5	7.1	1	35	16	122
	Charlie Conerly	12	11	0.9	11	1.0	0.9	0	8	11	11
	Don Heinrich	12	5	0.4	-4	-0.8	-0.3	0	2	5	-4
	Kyle Rote	12	3	0.3	5	1.7	0.4	0	3	31	410
	Jimmy Patton	12	2	0.2	-1	-0.5	-0.1	0	0	2	-1
	Henry Moore	5	2	0.4	-2	-1.0	-0.4	0	0	2	-2
	Don Chandler	12	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.6	0	7	2	12

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Frank Gifford	12	51		4.3	603	11.8	50.3	4	48	210	1,422
	Kyle Rote	12	28		2.3	405	14.5	33.8	4	31	31	410
	Alex Webster	12	21		1.8	197	9.4	16.4	3	43	199	891
	Ken MacAfee	12	14		1.2	184	13.1	15.3	4	29	14	184
	Bob Schnelker	12	9		0.8	122	13.6	10.2	1	19	9	122
	Mel Triplett	12	6		0.5	48	8.0	4.0	1	35	131	563
	Gene Filipski	12	3		0.3	37	12.3	3.1	0	21	16	122
	Don Chandler	12	1		0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	5	2	12

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Emlen Tunnell	12							6	87	14.5	0	23
	Sam Huff	12							3	49	16.3	0	27
	Dick Nolan	12							2	17	8.5	0	17
	Bill Svoboda	11							2	3	1.5	0	3
	Ed Hughes	12							1	38	38	0	38
	Ray Beck	10							1	2	2	0	2
	Jimmy Patton	12							1	2	2	0	2
	Herb Rich	5							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Frank Gifford	12	5	4	0	9	1	8		0	65
	Alex Webster	12	7	3	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Ben Agajanian	10	0	0	0	0	5	23		0	38
	Mel Triplett	12	5	1	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Ken MacAfee	12	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Kyle Rote	12	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Gene Filipski	12	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bob Schnelker	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Don Chandler	12	0	0	0	0	0	3		0	3
	Andy Robustelli	12	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jimmy Patton	12	13	17	1.4	0	6	12
	Gene Filipski	12	19	25	25.0	0	25	1
	Johnny Hermann	2	1	0	0.0	0	0	1
	Ed Hughes	12	1	0		0		0
	Mel Triplett	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
	Ben Agajanian	10	5	13	38.5						23	23	100.0	38
	Frank Gifford	12	1	2	50.0						8	9	88.9	11

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Don Chandler	12	59	2,473	41.9	63	0
	Charlie Conerly	12	1	33	33.0	33	0