1956 Washington Redskins Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Washington Redskins

6-6-0

3rd in Eastern Conference

Scored 15.3 PPG (10th)

Allowed 18.8 PPG (6th)

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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	183	2,961	731	4.1	1,743	501	3.5	1,335	215	6.2	15	117	176	91	71	14	44	383
Team Rank		10th	11th	9th	10th	9th	4th	10th	12th	10th	10th	3rd	10th	10th	9th	10th	4th	2nd	1st
Opponent	12	225	3,199	700	4.6	1,570	446	3.5	1,739	240	7.2	14	110	188	97	83	8
Opponent Rank		6th	4th	2nd	5th	4th	4th	2nd	5th	3rd	7th	10th	2nd	3rd	5th	5th	1st
Net		-42	-238	+31	-0.5	+173	+55	0.0	-404	-25	-1.0	+1	+7	-12	-6	-12	+6	+44	+383
Net Rank		8th	9th	4th	11th	5th	4th	5th	12th	10th	11th	7th	6th	6th	6th	9th	2nd	2nd	1st

1956 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Al Dorow	12	55	112	49.1	9.3	730	6.5	60.8	8	7.1	8	7.1	51			64.2
	Eddie LeBaron	10	47	98	48.0	9.8	554	5.7	55.4	3	3.1	10	10.2	33			36.2
	Tommy Runnels	11	1	3	33.3	0.3	34	11.3	3.1	0	0.0	0	0.0	34			77.1
	Fred Wyant	10	1	2	50.0	0.2	17	8.5	1.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	17			79.2

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Leo Elter	12	145	12.1	544	3.8	45.3	2	48	156	643
	Tommy Runnels	11	96	8.7	334	3.5	30.4	0	17	102	390
	Billy Wells	7	69	9.9	185	2.7	26.4	1	17	75	271
	Dale Atkeson	5	63	12.6	163	2.6	32.6	1	12	69	191
	Dick James	10	58	5.8	280	4.8	28.0	1	41	65	407
	Al Dorow	12	30	2.5	105	3.5	8.8	0	30	30	105
	Sam Baker	12	25	2.1	117	4.7	9.8	0	32	29	152
	Eddie LeBaron	10	11	1.1	6	0.5	0.6	0	9	11	6
	Jerry Planutis	3	2	0.7	6	3.0	2.0	0	3	3	11
	Joe Scudero	11	2	0.2	3	1.5	0.3	0	2	2	3

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Johnny Carson	12	39		3.3	504	12.9	42.0	3	26	39	504
	Steve Meilinger	12	24		2	395	16.5	32.9	5	51	24	395
	Leo Elter	12	11		0.9	99	9.0	8.3	0	17	156	643
	Dick James	10	7		0.7	127	18.1	12.7	2	34	65	407
	Billy Wells	7	6		0.9	86	14.3	12.3	0	34	75	271
	Tommy Runnels	11	6		0.5	56	9.3	5.1	1	22	102	390
	Dale Atkeson	5	6		1.2	28	4.7	5.6	0	26	69	191
	Sam Baker	12	4		0.3	35	8.8	2.9	0	17	29	152
	Jerry Planutis	3	1		0.3	5	5.0	1.7	0	5	3	11

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Norb Hecker	12							8	26	3.3	0	14
	Roy Barni	12							2	47	23.5	0	33
	Joe Scudero	11							2	26	13	0	24
	Gary Lowe	11							1	30	30	0	30
	Art DeCarlo	12							1	11	11	0	11
	Gene Brito	12							1	6	6	0	6
	Chet Ostrowski	12							1	2	2	0	2
	Bill Fulcher	9							1	0	0	0	0
	LaVern Torgeson	12							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Sam Baker	12	0	0	0	0	17	16		0	67
	Steve Meilinger	12	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Johnny Carson	12	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Dick James	10	1	2	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Leo Elter	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Billy Wells	7	1	0	1	2	0	0		0	12
	Dale Atkeson	5	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Norb Hecker	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	John Paluck	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Tommy Runnels	11	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Johnny Miller	12	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Tommy Runnels	11	17	91	11.4	0	59	8
	Joe Scudero	11	9	50	5.0	0	12	10
	Dick James	10	9	84	14.0	0	24	6
	Leo Elter	12	4	0		0		0
	Billy Wells	7	1	36	18.0	0	22	2
	Dale Atkeson	5	1	12	12.0	0	12	1
	Tony Sardisco	7	1	0		0		0
	J.D. Kimmel	12	1	0		0		0
	Ralph Thomas	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
	Sam Baker	12	17	25	68.0						16	19	84.2	67

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Sam Baker	12	59	2,510	42.5	56	0
	Eddie LeBaron	10	4	161	40.3	47	0