1956 San Francisco 49ers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

San Francisco 49ers

5-6-1

3rd in Western Conference

Scored 19.4 PPG (8th)

Allowed 23.7 PPG (9th)

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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	233	3,813	752	5.1	1,836	419	4.4	2,262	297	7.6	36	285	221	101	107	13	57	562
Team Rank		8th	6th	5th	6th	8th	8th	4th	3rd	5th	4th	11th	2nd	5th	7th	4th	7th	6th	8th
Opponent	12	284	4,162	778	5.3	2,192	481	4.6	2,115	279	7.6	18	145	236	124	103	9
Opponent Rank		9th	10th	8th	10th	11th	10th	11th	8th	6th	9th	7th	5th	10th	11th	9th	3rd
Net		-51	-349	-26	-0.3	-356	-62	-0.2	+147	+18	+0.0	+18	+140	-15	-23	+4	+4	+57	+562
Net Rank		9th	10th	8th	8th	9th	9th	7th	4th	4th	6th	12th	1st	7th	10th	6th	3rd	6th	8th

1956 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Y.A. Tittle	10	124	218	56.9	21.8	1,641	7.5	164.1	7	3.2	12	5.5	77			68.6
	Earl Morrall	12	38	78	48.7	6.5	621	8.0	51.8	1	1.3	6	7.7	37			48.1
	Hugh McElhenny	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
	Hugh McElhenny	12	185	15.4	916	5.0	76.3	8	86	201	1,109
	Joe Perry	11	115	10.5	520	4.5	47.3	3	39	133	624
	John Henry Johnson	12	80	6.7	301	3.8	25.1	2	54	88	391
	Y.A. Tittle	10	24	2.4	67	2.8	6.7	4	13	24	67
	Dicky Moegle	12	7	0.6	18	2.6	1.5	0	12	10	97
	Earl Morrall	12	6	0.5	10	1.7	0.8	0	8	6	10
	Tom McCormick	6	2	0.3	4	2.0	0.7	0	2	2	4

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Billy Wilson	12	60		5	889	14.8	74.1	5	77	60	889
	Clyde Conner	12	22		1.8	362	16.5	30.2	1	49	22	362
	Gordie Soltau	12	18		1.5	299	16.6	24.9	1	33	18	299
	Joe Perry	11	18		1.6	104	5.8	9.5	0	20	133	624
	Hugh McElhenny	12	16		1.3	193	12.1	16.1	0	22	201	1,109
	Joe Arenas	12	14		1.2	226	16.1	18.8	1	50	14	226
	John Henry Johnson	12	8		0.7	90	11.3	7.5	0	28	88	391
	Dicky Moegle	12	3		0.3	79	26.3	6.6	0	37	10	97
	Bill Jessup	3	2		0.7	7	3.5	2.3	0	10	2	7
	Charlie Smith	12	1		0.1	13	13.0	1.1	0	13	1	13

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Dicky Moegle	12							6	75	12.5	1	31
	Rex Berry	12							3	20	6.7	0	20
	Paul Carr	12							2	18	9	0	11
	George Maderos	12							2	2	1	0	2
	Matt Hazeltine	12							1	7	7	0	7
	Ed Sharkey	7							1	4	4	0	4
	Bob Holladay	7							1	0	0	0	0
	Ernie Smith	3							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Gordie Soltau	12	0	1	0	1	13	26		0	71
	Hugh McElhenny	12	8	0	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Billy Wilson	12	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Y.A. Tittle	10	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Joe Arenas	12	0	1	2	3	0	0		0	18
	Joe Perry	11	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	John Henry Johnson	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Clyde Conner	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Dicky Moegle	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Joe Arenas	12	27	117	6.2	1	67	19
	Hugh McElhenny	12	13	38	2.5	0	12	15
	Dicky Moegle	12	2	5	5.0	0	5	1
	George Maderos	12	2	0		0		0
	John Henry Johnson	12	1	0		0		0
	Paul Goad	4	1	0		0		0
	Tom McCormick	6	1	0		0		0
	Charlie Smith	12	1	0		0		0
	Paul Carr	12	1	0		0		0
	John Gonzaga	9	1	0		0		0
	Bill Herchman	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
	Gordie Soltau	12	13	20	65.0						26	28	92.9	65

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Earl Morrall	12	45	1,705	37.9	57	0
	Bill Jessup	3	14	563	40.2	63	0