1961 Minnesota Vikings Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Minnesota Vikings

3-11-0

7th in Western Conference

Scored 20.4 PPG (9th)

Allowed 29.1 PPG (14th)

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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	285	3,886	863	4.5	1,897	419	4.5	2,527	377	6.7	67	538	236	104	123	9	36	375
Team Rank		15th	18th	10th	15th	7th	13th	7th	19th	16th	16th	22nd	1st	15th	7th	11th	20th	1st	1st
Opponent	14	407	5,593	874	6.4	2,667	493	5.4	3,051	365	8.4	16	125	291	147	132	12
Opponent Rank		20th	22nd	14th	22nd	22nd	20th	22nd	15th	5th	21st	22nd	1st	22nd	22nd	16th	3rd
Net		-122	-1,707	-11	-1.9	-770	-74	-0.9	-524	+12	-1.7	+51	+413	-55	-43	-9	-3	+36	+375
Net Rank		18th	21st	11th	22nd	21st	17th	21st	20th	9th	20th	22nd	1st	20th	21st	14th	16th	1st	1st

1961 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Fran Tarkenton	14	157	280	56.1	20	1,997	7.1	142.6	18	6.4	17	6.1	71			74.7
	George Shaw	8	46	91	50.5	11.4	530	5.8	66.3	4	4.4	4	4.4	42			64.8
	Jerry Reichow	14	0	3	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	33.3				0.0
	Jamie Caleb	10	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
	Tommy Mason	13	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	9			39.6
	Hugh McElhenny	13	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
	Hugh McElhenny	13	120	9.2	570	4.8	43.8	3	41	157	853
	Mel Triplett	14	80	5.7	407	5.1	29.1	1	37	90	448
	Ray Hayes	13	73	5.6	319	4.4	24.5	2	22	89	440
	Tommy Mason	13	60	4.6	226	3.8	17.4	3	21	80	348
	Fran Tarkenton	14	56	4	308	5.5	22.0	5	52	56	308
	Doug Mayberry	4	13	3.3	40	3.1	10.0	0	13	15	58
	George Shaw	8	10	1.3	39	3.9	4.9	0	19	10	39
	Jamie Caleb	10	3	0.3	11	3.7	1.1	0	4	5	3
	Jerry Reichow	14	3	0.2	9	3.0	0.6	0	21	53	868
	Mike Mercer	14	1	0.1	-32	-32.0	-2.3	0	-32	1	-32

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jerry Reichow	14	50		3.6	859	17.2	61.4	11	51	53	868
	Hugh McElhenny	13	37		2.8	283	7.6	21.8	3	26	157	853
	Dave Middleton	12	30		2.5	444	14.8	37.0	2	57	30	444
	Tommy Mason	13	20		1.5	122	6.1	9.4	0	18	80	348
	Ray Hayes	13	16		1.2	121	7.6	9.3	0	22	89	440
	A.D. Williams	13	13		1	174	13.4	13.4	1	49	13	174
	Gordon Smith	9	12		1.3	320	26.7	35.6	4	71	12	320
	Mel Triplett	14	10		0.7	41	4.1	2.9	0	15	90	448
	Bob Schnelker	6	6		1	70	11.7	11.7	1	20	6	70
	Dick Haley	4	3		0.8	43	14.3	10.8	0	22	3	43
	Will Sherman	8	2		0.3	40	20.0	5.0	0	32	2	40
	Doug Mayberry	4	2		0.5	18	9.0	4.5	0	13	15	58
	Jamie Caleb	10	2		0.2	-8	-4.0	-0.8	0	5	5	3

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Rip Hawkins	14							5	70	14	0	34
	Clancy Osborne	14							4	35	8.8	0	10
	Dean Derby	8							3	73	24.3	0	30
	Jack Morris	14							2	90	45	0	65
	Rich Mostardo	11							2	22	11	0	21
	Charlie Sumner	13							2	6	3	0	6
	Dick Pesonen	11							1	28	28	0	28
	Dick Grecni	12							1	16	16	0	16
	Karl Rubke	13							1	12	12	0	12
	Justin Rowland	5							1	4	4	0	4

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Jerry Reichow	14	0	11	0	11	0	0		0	66
	Mike Mercer	14	0	0	0	0	9	36		0	63
	Hugh McElhenny	13	3	3	1	7	0	0		0	42
	Fran Tarkenton	14	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Gordon Smith	9	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Tommy Mason	13	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Ray Hayes	13	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Dave Middleton	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Bob Schnelker	6	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Mel Triplett	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	A.D. Williams	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Tommy Mason	13	25	146	10.4	0	23	14
	Jamie Caleb	10	22	8	8.0	0	8	1
	Hugh McElhenny	13	2	155	19.4	1	81	8
	Justin Rowland	5	8	0		0		0
	Dick Pesonen	11	6	0		0		0
	Mel Triplett	14	3	0		0		0
	Jim Leo	14	3	0		0		0
	Billy Gault	4	2	0		0		0
	Ray Hayes	13	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
	Mike Mercer	14	9	21	42.9	4-6	4-5	1-5	0-5	0-0	36	37	97.3	63

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Mike Mercer	14	63	2,458	39.0	59	2