1959 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

3-8-1

5th in Western Conference

Scored 16.9 PPG (11th)

Allowed 22.9 PPG (8th)

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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	203	3,456	785	4.4	1,792	399	4.5	2,131	328	6.5	58	467	198	90	87	21	65	496
Team Rank		11th	10th	2nd	12th	5th	8th	6th	7th	4th	9th	12th	1st	7th	7th	8th	3rd	11th	8th
Opponent	12	275	3,656	722	5.1	1,562	403	3.9	2,340	288	8.1	31	246	196	79	103	14
Opponent Rank		8th	4th	5th	6th	5th	4th	3rd	8th	4th	10th	2nd	10th	4th	4th	9th	5th
Net		-72	-200	+63	-0.7	+230	-4	+0.6	-209	+40	-1.6	+27	+221	+2	+11	-16	+7	+65	+496
Net Rank		9th	9th	2nd	11th	3rd	6th	3rd	8th	3rd	10th	12th	1st	6th	4th	9th	3rd	11th	8th

1959 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Tobin Rote	10	62	162	38.3	16.2	861	5.3	86.1	5	3.1	19	11.7	59			26.8
	Earl Morrall	12	65	137	47.4	11.4	1,102	8.0	91.8	5	3.6	6	4.4	79			69.1
	Jerry Reichow	9	9	27	33.3	3	168	6.2	18.7	0	0.0	2	7.4	41			24.9
	Terry Barr	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Yale Lary	10	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	10	82	8.2	270	3.3	27.0	2	39	89	304
	Nick Pietrosante	10	76	7.6	447	5.9	44.7	3	37	92	587
	Ken Webb	12	60	5	222	3.7	18.5	2	29	72	423
	Howard Cassady	12	52	4.3	203	3.9	16.9	1	18	67	519
	Dan Lewis	11	49	4.5	199	4.1	18.1	2	20	54	274
	Tobin Rote	10	35	3.5	156	4.5	15.6	2	21	35	156
	Earl Morrall	12	26	2.2	112	4.3	9.3	0	22	26	112
	Jerry Reichow	9	13	1.4	98	7.5	10.9	0	46	20	216
	Terry Barr	11	5	0.5	57	11.4	5.2	1	37	15	237
	Yale Lary	10	1	0.1	18	18.0	1.8	0	18	1	18

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jim Gibbons	12	31		2.6	431	13.9	35.9	1	38	31	431
	Dave Middleton	12	18		1.5	402	22.3	33.5	2	79	18	402
	Nick Pietrosante	10	16		1.6	140	8.8	14.0	0	20	92	587
	Howard Cassady	12	15		1.3	316	21.1	26.3	4	59	67	519
	Jim Doran	10	14		1.4	191	13.6	19.1	1	25	14	191
	Ken Webb	12	12		1	201	16.8	16.8	0	67	72	423
	Terry Barr	11	10		0.9	180	18.0	16.4	0	45	15	237
	Jerry Reichow	9	7		0.8	118	16.9	13.1	1	32	20	216
	John Henry Johnson	10	7		0.7	34	4.9	3.4	1	18	89	304
	Dan Lewis	11	5		0.5	75	15.0	6.8	0	30	54	274
	Gene Cook	1	1		1	43	43.0	43.0	0	43	1	43

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Gary Lowe	12							5	130	26	0	42
	Yale Lary	10							3	0	0	0	0
	Jim Martin	12							2	33	16.5	0	19
	Jim David	12							2	7	3.5	0	7
	Terry Barr	11							1	29	29	0	29
	Joe Schmidt	12							1	17	17	0	17

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Howard Cassady	12	1	4	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Gerry Perry	10	0	0	0	0	3	18		0	27
	Jim Martin	12	0	0	0	0	7	0		0	21
	John Henry Johnson	10	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Nick Pietrosante	10	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Jim Doran	10	0	1	1	2	0	0		0	12
	Dan Lewis	11	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Dave Middleton	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Tobin Rote	10	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Ken Webb	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Terry Barr	11	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Jim Gibbons	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Yale Lary	10	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jerry Reichow	9	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Wayne Walker	9	0	0	0	0	0	5		0	5

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Terry Barr	11	9	102	6.4	0	24	16
	Ken Webb	12	16	0		0		0
	Howard Cassady	12	8	14	14.0	0	14	1
	Nick Pietrosante	10	5	0		0		0
	Dan Lewis	11	1	0		0		0
	Jim Martin	12	1	0		0		0
	Mike Rabold	12	1	0		0		0
	Ken Russell	4	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
	Gerry Perry	10	3	6	50.0						18	18	100.0	27
	Jim Martin	12	7	17	41.2						0	1	0.0	21

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Yale Lary	10	45	2,121	47.1	67	0
	Earl Morrall	12	11	481	43.7	66	0