1971 Atlanta Falcons Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Atlanta Falcons

7-6-1

3rd in NFC West

Scored 19.6 PPG (13th)

Allowed 19.8 PPG (13th)

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1971 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	274	3,959	810	4.9	1,703	494	3.4	2,495	285	8.8	31	239	221	99	108	14	79	723
Team Rank		13th	15th	21st	10th	16th	7th	23rd	10th	24th	1st	15th	13th	15th	14th	15th	18th	15th	12th
Opponent	14	277	3,787	874	4.3	2,149	500	4.3	1,895	343	5.5	31	257	237	114	106	17	61	614
Opponent Rank		13th	8th	18th	6th	21st	24th	18th	1st	9th	2nd	12th	16th	17th	20th	11th	12th	22nd	22nd
Net		-3	+172	-64	+0.6	-446	-6	-0.9	+600	-58	+3.2	0	-18	-16	-15	+2	-3	+18	+109
Net Rank		13th	12th	21st	5th	17th	14th	22nd	3rd	19th	1st	15th	16th	17th	16th	12th	18th	25th	22nd

1971 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Bob Berry	11	136	226	60.2	20.5	2,005	8.9	182.3	11	4.9	16	7.1	84	21	150	75.9
	Dick Shiner	10	30	57	52.6	5.7	463	8.1	46.3	5	8.8	5	8.8	47	10	89	72.5
	Billy Lothridge	9	1	1	100.0	0.1	27	27.0	3.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	27	0	0	118.8
	Leo Hart	1	0	1	0.0	1	0	0.0	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
	Cannonball Butler	13	186	14.3	594	3.2	45.7	2	19	201	737
	Art Malone	13	120	9.2	438	3.7	33.7	6	19	154	818
	Harmon Wages	14	64	4.6	266	4.2	19.0	1	27	83	515
	Willie Belton	14	56	4	237	4.2	16.9	1	16	59	259
	Sonny Campbell	14	29	2.1	79	2.7	5.6	0	8	32	119
	Bob Berry	11	19	1.7	31	1.6	2.8	0	9	19	31
	Dick Shiner	10	10	1	9	0.9	0.9	1	4	10	9
	Jim Mitchell	13	4	0.3	25	6.3	1.9	0	24	37	618
	Joe Profit	4	3	0.8	10	3.3	2.5	1	4	3	10
	Ray Jarvis	2	1	0.5	13	13.0	6.5	0	13	1	13
	Ken Burrow	14	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	5	34	746
	Wes Chesson	14	1	0.1	-4	-4.0	-0.3	0	-4	21	220

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Art Malone	13	34		2.6	380	11.2	29.2	2	46	154	818
	Ken Burrow	14	33		2.4	741	22.5	52.9	6	84	34	746
	Jim Mitchell	13	33		2.5	593	18.0	45.6	5	43	37	618
	Wes Chesson	14	20		1.4	224	11.2	16.0	0	24	21	220
	Harmon Wages	14	19		1.4	249	13.1	17.8	1	47	83	515
	Cannonball Butler	13	15		1.2	143	9.5	11.0	2	27	201	737
	Ray Poage	4	4		1	71	17.8	17.8	0	31	4	71
	Sonny Campbell	14	3		0.2	40	13.3	2.9	0	29	32	119
	Willie Belton	14	3		0.2	22	7.3	1.6	0	10	59	259
	John Mallory	14	1		0.1	27	27.0	1.9	0	27	1	27
	Greg Brezina	14	1		0.1	3	3.0	0.2	0	3	1	3
	George Kunz	14	1		0.1	2	2.0	0.1	0	2	1	2

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Ken Reaves	14							6	43	7.2	0	31
	Don Hansen	14							3	56	18.7	1	40
	Ray Brown	10							3	32	10.7	0	23
	Tom Hayes	14							3	27	9	0	27
	Greg Brezina	14							3	22	7.3	0	11
	Ron Acks	14							1	0	0	0	0
	Tom McCauley	4							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bill Bell	14	0	0	0	0	13	29		0	68
	Art Malone	13	6	2	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Ken Burrow	14	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Jim Mitchell	13	0	5	1	6	0	0		0	36
	Cannonball Butler	13	2	2	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Tom Hayes	14	0	0	3	3	0	0		0	18
	Harmon Wages	14	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Willie Belton	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Don Hansen	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	John Mallory	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Joe Profit	4	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Dick Shiner	10	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	John Zook	14	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Willie Belton	14	28	163	5.4	0	32	30
	Cannonball Butler	13	13	0		0		0
	Joe Profit	4	10	0		0		0
	Sonny Campbell	14	4	0		0		0
	Harmon Wages	14	1	0		0		0
	Dick Enderle	14	1	0		0		0
	John Small	14	1	0		0		0
	John Matlock	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
	Bill Bell	14	13	21	61.9	4-4	5-7	3-5	1-5	0-0	29	33	87.9	68

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Billy Lothridge	9	44	1,639	37.3	58	1
	Bill Bell	14	16	577	36.1	48	0