1961 Chicago Bears Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Chicago Bears

8-6-0

3rd in Western Conference

Scored 23.3 PPG (5th)

Allowed 21.6 PPG (9th)

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1961 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	14	326	4,562	827	5.5	1,890	436	4.3	3,011	349	8.6	42	339	239	103	113	23	81	720
Team Rank		9th	8th	17th	7th	9th	11th	9th	7th	18th	4th	16th	8th	11th	8th	19th	3rd	19th	20th
Opponent	14	302	4,449	845	5.3	1,652	401	4.1	3,164	398	7.9	46	367	223	80	124	19
Opponent Rank		11th	15th	6th	16th	11th	5th	13th	18th	11th	17th	4th	17th	6th	5th	9th	15th
Net		+24	+113	-18	+0.3	+238	+35	+0.2	-153	-49	+0.7	-4	-28	+16	+23	-11	+4	+81	+720
Net Rank		9th	12th	12th	12th	10th	9th	8th	12th	18th	6th	13th	10th	8th	6th	17th	4th	19th	20th

1961 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Billy Wade	13	139	250	55.6	19.2	2,258	9.0	173.7	22	8.8	13	5.2	98			93.7
	Ed Brown	14	46	98	46.9	7	742	7.6	53.0	4	4.1	11	11.2	84			46.8
	John Adams	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	11	11.0	0.8	0	0.0	0	0.0	11			112.5

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Willie Galimore	14	153	10.9	707	4.6	50.5	4	60	186	1,209
	Rick Casares	13	135	10.4	588	4.4	45.2	8	23	143	657
	Billy Wade	13	45	3.5	255	5.7	19.6	2	29	45	255
	Charlie Bivins	14	43	3.1	188	4.4	13.4	1	24	47	179
	Bill Brown	14	22	1.6	81	3.7	5.8	0	20	24	87
	John Adams	13	14	1.1	-2	-0.1	-0.2	1	10	19	78
	Ed Brown	14	13	0.9	18	1.4	1.3	0	13	13	18
	Johnny Morris	14	8	0.6	49	6.1	3.5	0	21	44	597
	J.D. Smith	3	3	1	6	2.0	2.0	0	5	3	6

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Mike Ditka	14	56		4	1,076	19.2	76.9	12	76	56	1,076
	Johnny Morris	14	36		2.6	548	15.2	39.1	4	80	44	597
	Willie Galimore	14	33		2.4	502	15.2	35.9	3	84	186	1,209
	Bo Farrington	11	21		1.9	349	16.6	31.7	4	98	21	349
	Angelo Coia	11	12		1.1	249	20.8	22.6	3	64	12	249
	Rick Casares	13	8		0.6	69	8.6	5.3	0	31	143	657
	Jim Dooley	6	6		1	90	15.0	15.0	0	25	6	90
	John Adams	13	5		0.4	80	16.0	6.2	0	36	19	78
	Charlie Bivins	14	4		0.3	-9	-2.3	-0.6	0	4	47	179
	Harlon Hill	14	3		0.2	51	17.0	3.6	0	23	3	51
	Bill Brown	14	2		0.1	6	3.0	0.4	0	13	24	87

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Dave Whitsell	14							6	123	20.5	0	52
	Richie Petitbon	14							5	71	14.2	0	43
	Harlon Hill	14							3	52	17.3	0	24
	J.C. Caroline	14							3	48	16	0	28
	Joe Fortunato	14							3	34	11.3	0	16
	Bill George	14							3	18	6	0	13
	Larry Morris	14							1	25	25	0	25

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Mike Ditka	14	0	12	0	12	0	0		0	72
	Roger LeClerc	14	0	0	0	0	10	40		0	70
	Rick Casares	13	8	0	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Willie Galimore	14	4	3	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Bo Farrington	11	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Johnny Morris	14	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Angelo Coia	11	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Billy Wade	13	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	John Adams	13	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Charlie Bivins	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Ed Brown	14	0	0	0	0	1	1		0	4

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Charlie Bivins	14	25	0		0		0
	Johnny Morris	14	2	155	6.7	0	16	23
	Rosey Taylor	14	14	4	4.0	0	4	1
	Willie Galimore	14	5	0		0		0
	Bill Brown	14	4	0		0		0
	J.D. Smith	3	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
	Roger LeClerc	14	10	24	41.7	6-9	0-2	2-5	1-7	1-1	40	41	97.6	70
	Ed Brown	14	1	2	50.0	0-1	1-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	1	100.0	4
	Bill George	14	0	1	0.0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0		0

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Ed Brown	14	58	2,448	42.2	69	0
	John Adams	13	2	56	28.0	43	0