1961 Houston Oilers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Houston Oilers

10-3-1

1st in Eastern Division

Champions (2nd championship)

Scored 36.6 PPG (1st)

Allowed 17.3 PPG (2nd)

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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	513	6,288	964	6.5	1,896	452	4.2	4,568	498	9.2	14	176	293	97	182	14	83	889
Team Rank		1st	1st	1st	1st	8th	6th	12th	1st	2nd	1st	1st	20th	1st	13th	1st	14th	20th	22nd
Opponent	14	242	4,025	899	4.5	1,634	365	4.5	2,750	493	5.6	41	359	235	87	126	22
Opponent Rank		4th	7th	17th	3rd	10th	3rd	17th	9th	22nd	1st	9th	16th	11th	8th	12th	20th
Net		+271	+2,263	+65	+2.0	+262	+87	-0.3	+1,818	+5	+3.6	-27	-183	+58	+10	+56	-8	+83	+889
Net Rank		1st	1st	3rd	1st	8th	3rd	15th	1st	12th	1st	1st	21st	2nd	11th	1st	22nd	20th	22nd

1961 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	George Blanda	14	187	362	51.7	25.9	3,330	9.2	237.9	36	9.9	22	6.1	80			91.3
	Jacky Lee	14	66	127	52.0	9.1	1,205	9.5	86.1	12	9.4	6	4.7	80			96.7
	Billy Cannon	14	0	5	0.0	0.4	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	20.0				0.0
	Dave Smith	14	1	2	50.0	0.1	33	16.5	2.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	33			95.8
	Bill Groman	14	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Charley Tolar	14	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
	Billy Cannon	14	200	14.3	948	4.7	67.7	6	61	243	1,534
	Charley Tolar	14	157	11.2	577	3.7	41.2	4	28	181	796
	Dave Smith	14	60	4.3	258	4.3	18.4	2	21	70	389
	Claude King	11	12	1.1	50	4.2	4.5	2	17	15	133
	Jacky Lee	14	8	0.6	36	4.5	2.6	0	9	8	36
	Ken Hall	3	7	2.3	13	1.9	4.3	0	9	8	33
	George Blanda	14	7	0.5	12	1.7	0.9	0	7	8	-4
	Bill Groman	14	1	0.1	2	2.0	0.1	1	2	51	1,177

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Charley Hennigan	14	82		5.9	1,746	21.3	124.7	12	80	82	1,746
	Bill Groman	14	50		3.6	1,175	23.5	83.9	17	80	51	1,177
	Billy Cannon	14	43		3.1	586	13.6	41.9	9	78	243	1,534
	Charley Tolar	14	24		1.7	219	9.1	15.6	1	32	181	796
	Bob McLeod	14	14		1	172	12.3	12.3	2	18	14	172
	John White	14	13		0.9	238	18.3	17.0	1	49	13	238
	Willard Dewveall	7	12		1.7	200	16.7	28.6	3	66	12	200
	Dave Smith	14	10		0.7	131	13.1	9.4	1	37	70	389
	Claude King	11	3		0.3	83	27.7	7.5	1	44	15	133
	Ken Hall	3	1		0.3	20	20.0	6.7	1	20	8	33
	Julian Spence	10	1		0.1	14	14.0	1.4	0	14	1	14
	George Blanda	14	1		0.1	-16	-16.0	-1.1	0	-16	8	-4

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Jim Norton	14							9	150	16.7	0	36
	Tony Banfield	14							8	136	17	0	58
	Mark Johnston	14							4	59	14.8	0	27
	Fred Glick	12							4	28	7	0	11
	Charlie Milstead	8							2	25	12.5	0	22
	Dennit Morris	14							1	31	31	0	31
	Jack Laraway	10							1	30	30	0	30
	Doug Cline	14							1	24	24	0	24
	Julian Spence	10							1	23	23	0	23
	Orville Trask	14							1	17	17	0	17
	Mike Dukes	14							1	5	5	0	5

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	George Blanda	14	0	0	0	0	16	64	0	0	112
	Bill Groman	14	1	17	0	18	0	0	0	0	108
	Billy Cannon	14	6	9	0	15	0	0	0	0	90
	Charley Hennigan	14	0	12	0	12	0	0	0	0	72
	Charley Tolar	14	4	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	30
	Willard Dewveall	7	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Claude King	11	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Dave Smith	14	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Doug Cline	14	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	14
	Bob McLeod	14	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Ken Hall	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Mark Johnston	14	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	John White	14	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Charlie Milstead	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Billy Cannon	14	18	70	7.8	0	20	9
	Claude King	11	8	32	4.6	0	10	7
	Ken Hall	3	6	1	0.5	0	1	2
	Mike Dukes	14	4	0		0		0
	Charley Tolar	14	2	0		0		0
	Dave Smith	14	1	15	15.0	0	15	1
	Doug Cline	14	1	0		0		0
	Jack Laraway	10	1	0		0		0
	Bob McLeod	14	1	0		0		0
	Hogan Wharton	14	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
	George Blanda	14	16	29	55.2	6-6	6-8	1-3	1-6	2-6	64	65	98.5	112

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Jim Norton	14	48	1,952	40.7	63	0
	Ken Hall	3	8	238	29.8	50	0