1957 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

8-4-0

1st in Western Conference

Champions (4th championship)

Scored 20.9 PPG (6th)

Allowed 19.3 PPG (7th)

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Schedule & ResultsSchedule

1957 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	251	3,840	796	4.8	1,811	409	4.4	2,239	361	6.2	26	210	221	103	105	13	65	673
Team Rank		6th	3rd	2nd	8th	4th	8th	2nd	4th	1st	12th	6th	7th	4th	3rd	3rd	9th	7th	11th
Opponent	12	231	3,365	728	4.6	1,521	406	3.7	2,099	290	7.2	32	255	198	81	100	17
Opponent Rank		7th	5th	6th	6th	5th	4th	4th	6th	7th	6th	4th	9th	6th	5th	9th	6th
Net		+20	+475	+68	+0.2	+290	+3	+0.7	+140	+71	-1.0	-6	-45	+23	+22	+5	-4	+65	+673
Net Rank		6th	4th	2nd	6th	6th	6th	2nd	4th	2nd	10th	4th	6th	2nd	2nd	4th	9th	7th	11th

1957 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	11	87	179	48.6	16.3	1,169	6.5	106.3	6	3.4	12	6.7	65			53.0
	Tobin Rote	12	76	177	42.9	14.8	1,070	6.0	89.2	11	6.2	10	5.6	48			60.2
	Gene Gedman	10	0	2	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Jerry Reichow	12	0	2	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Yale Lary	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
	John Henry Johnson	12	129	10.8	621	4.8	51.8	5	62	149	762
	Howard Cassady	12	73	6.1	250	3.4	20.8	3	57	98	575
	Tobin Rote	12	70	5.8	366	5.2	30.5	1	23	70	366
	Gene Gedman	10	67	6.7	278	4.1	27.8	3	59	77	413
	Leon Hart	11	24	2.2	99	4.1	9.0	0	15	28	154
	Bobby Layne	11	24	2.2	99	4.1	9.0	0	21	24	99
	Tom Tracy	9	16	1.8	46	2.9	5.1	0	17	22	70
	Jerry Reichow	12	2	0.2	9	4.5	0.8	0	7	19	224
	Marv Brown	4	2	0.5	6	3.0	1.5	0	3	2	6
	Yale Lary	12	1	0.1	32	32.0	2.7	0	32	1	32
	Dorne Dibble	12	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	5	9	126

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jim Doran	12	33		2.8	624	18.9	52.0	5	65	33	624
	Howard Cassady	12	25		2.1	325	13.0	27.1	3	48	98	575
	Steve Junker	12	22		1.8	305	13.9	25.4	4	32	22	305
	John Henry Johnson	12	20		1.7	141	7.1	11.8	0	16	149	762
	Dave Middleton	8	18		2.3	294	16.3	36.8	2	56	18	294
	Jerry Reichow	12	17		1.4	215	12.6	17.9	3	32	19	224
	Gene Gedman	10	10		1	135	13.5	13.5	0	47	77	413
	Dorne Dibble	12	8		0.7	121	15.1	10.1	0	23	9	126
	Tom Tracy	9	6		0.7	24	4.0	2.7	0	7	22	70
	Leon Hart	11	4		0.4	55	13.8	5.0	0	22	28	154

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jack Christiansen	12							10	137	13.7	1	52
	Carl Karilivacz	12							5	54	10.8	0	30
	Jim David	12							3	20	6.7	0	17
	Yale Lary	12							2	64	32	0	63
	Jim Martin	12							1	22	22	0	22
	Joe Schmidt	12							1	8	8	0	8
	Bob Long	12							1	3	3	0	3
	Gary Lowe	7							1	3	3	0	3
	Terry Barr	12							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bobby Layne	11	0	0	0	0	6	25		0	43
	Howard Cassady	12	3	3	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Jim Doran	12	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	John Henry Johnson	12	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Jim Martin	12	0	0	0	0	7	5		0	26
	Steve Junker	12	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Gene Gedman	10	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Jerry Reichow	12	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Dave Middleton	8	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jack Christiansen	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Tobin Rote	12	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Darris McCord	12	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Terry Barr	12	9	33	3.7	0	18	9
	Howard Cassady	12	10	0		0		0
	Marv Brown	4	6	16	5.3	0	15	3
	Jack Christiansen	12	4	12	4.0	0	8	3
	Gene Gedman	10	6	0		0		0
	Gerry Perry	12	1	0		0		0
	Gene Cronin	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
	Bobby Layne	11	6	11	54.5						25	25	100.0	43
	Jim Martin	12	7	14	50.0						5	5	100.0	26

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Yale Lary	12	54	2,156	39.9	66	0