1959 Chicago Bears Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Chicago Bears

8-4-0

2nd in Western Conference

Scored 21.0 PPG (7th)

Allowed 16.3 PPG (2nd)

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1959 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	252	3,511	728	4.8	1,438	392	3.7	2,284	310	7.4	26	211	190	69	110	11	66	597
Team Rank		7th	8th	9th	8th	11th	9th	11th	6th	6th	5th	7th	5th	10th	12th	4th	10th	12th	11th
Opponent	12	196	3,676	794	4.6	1,783	429	4.2	2,147	333	6.4	32	254	208	95	91	22
Opponent Rank		2nd	5th	11th	3rd	8th	8th	8th	5th	10th	3rd	1st	12th	6th	6th	3rd	12th
Net		+56	-165	-66	+0.2	-345	-37	-0.5	+137	-23	+0.9	-6	-43	-18	-26	+19	-11	+66	+597
Net Rank		3rd	8th	9th	4th	11th	9th	9th	6th	8th	3rd	5th	8th	9th	11th	4th	12th	12th	11th

1959 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Ed Brown	12	125	247	50.6	20.6	1,881	7.6	156.8	13	5.3	10	4.0	88			76.7
	Zeke Bratkowski	12	31	62	50.0	5.2	403	6.5	33.6	2	3.2	5	8.1	36			48.0
	Rick Casares	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
	Rick Casares	12	177	14.8	699	3.9	58.3	10	47	204	972
	Johnny Morris	12	87	7.3	312	3.6	26.0	0	33	100	509
	Willie Galimore	12	58	4.8	199	3.4	16.6	1	36	68	324
	Ed Brown	12	33	2.8	108	3.3	9.0	1	48	33	108
	Merrill Douglas	12	24	2	47	2.0	3.9	2	9	25	64
	Zeke Bratkowski	12	7	0.6	86	12.3	7.2	0	41	7	86
	John Adams	12	4	0.3	-13	-3.3	-1.1	0	8	4	-13
	Rudy Bukich	5	1	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Harlon Hill	11	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	37	578

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jim Dooley	12	41		3.4	580	14.1	48.3	3	41	41	580
	Harlon Hill	11	36		3.3	578	16.1	52.5	3	88	37	578
	Rick Casares	12	27		2.3	273	10.1	22.8	2	43	204	972
	Willard Dewveall	11	20		1.8	420	21.0	38.2	3	76	20	420
	Johnny Morris	12	13		1.1	197	15.2	16.4	2	51	100	509
	Willie Galimore	12	10		0.8	125	12.5	10.4	2	34	68	324
	Bill McColl	12	8		0.7	94	11.8	7.8	0	26	8	94
	Merrill Douglas	12	1		0.1	17	17.0	1.4	0	17	25	64

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Erich Barnes	12							5	67	13.4	0	29
	J.C. Caroline	12							5	14	2.8	0	8
	Richie Petitbon	12							3	52	17.3	1	33
	Charlie Sumner	12							3	22	7.3	0	15
	Bill George	12							2	20	10	0	20
	Joe Fortunato	12							2	10	5	0	6
	Larry Morris	12							1	14	14	0	14
	Jack Johnson	6							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Rick Casares	12	10	2	0	12	0	0		0	72
	John Aveni	12	0	0	0	0	10	28		0	58
	Willard Dewveall	11	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Jim Dooley	12	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Willie Galimore	12	1	2	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Harlon Hill	11	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Johnny Morris	12	0	2	1	3	0	0		0	18
	Merrill Douglas	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Ed Brown	12	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Larry Morris	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Richie Petitbon	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Earl Leggett	12	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Johnny Morris	12	17	171	12.2	1	78	14
	Richie Petitbon	12	4	72	6.5	0	17	11
	Willie Galimore	12	11	0		0		0
	Bill Roehnelt	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
	John Aveni	12	10	19	52.6						28	32	87.5	58

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Ed Brown	12	64	2,634	41.2	66	0
	Rick Casares	12	3	139	46.3	71	0
	Jack Johnson	6	1	32	32.0	32	0