1972 Minnesota Vikings Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Minnesota Vikings

7-7-0

3rd in NFC Central

Scored 21.5 PPG (12th)

Allowed 18.0 PPG (11th)

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1972 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	301	4,263	883	4.8	1,740	472	3.7	2,726	385	7.1	26	203	235	95	127	13	51	440
Team Rank		12th	12th	7th	12th	20th	15th	22nd	5th	3rd	9th	12th	16th	14th	19th	3rd	21st	2nd	2nd
Opponent	14	252	3,701	806	4.6	2,002	454	4.4	1,791	331	5.4	21	92	200	103	82	15	47	490
Opponent Rank		11th	5th	4th	9th	16th	13th	20th	1st	9th	1st	23rd	1st	2nd	15th	1st	6th	26th	25th
Net		+49	+562	+77	+0.2	-262	+18	-0.7	+935	+54	+1.7	+5	+111	+35	-8	+45	-2	+4	-50
Net Rank		10th	7th	5th	12th	20th	13th	23rd	1st	5th	3rd	17th	6th	6th	14th	1st	16th	14th	10th

1972 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	215	378	56.9	27	2,651	7.0	189.4	18	4.8	13	3.4	76	26	203	80.2
	Bob Lee	2	3	6	50.0	3	75	12.5	37.5	1	16.7	0	0.0	63	0	0	135.4
	Paul Krause	14	0	1	0.0	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
	Oscar Reed	14	151	10.8	639	4.2	45.6	2	43	181	844
	Bill Brown	14	82	5.9	263	3.2	18.8	4	19	104	561
	Dave Osborn	14	82	5.9	261	3.2	18.6	2	14	102	427
	Ed Marinaro	10	66	6.6	223	3.4	22.3	0	19	94	441
	Clint Jones	7	52	7.4	164	3.2	23.4	2	33	58	206
	Fran Tarkenton	14	27	1.9	180	6.7	12.9	0	21	27	180
	John Gilliam	14	8	0.6	14	1.8	1.0	0	14	55	1,049
	Jim Lindsey	13	1	0.1	8	8.0	0.6	0	8	4	36
	Stu Voigt	14	1	0.1	1	1.0	0.1	1	1	7	51
	Paul Krause	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Mike Eischeid	14	1	0.1	-13	-13.0	-0.9	0	-13	1	-13

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	John Gilliam	14	47		3.4	1,035	22.0	73.9	7	66	55	1,049
	Oscar Reed	14	30		2.1	205	6.8	14.6	0	37	181	844
	John Beasley	14	28		2	232	8.3	16.6	1	18	28	232
	Ed Marinaro	10	28		2.8	218	7.8	21.8	1	18	94	441
	Bill Brown	14	22		1.6	298	13.5	21.3	4	76	104	561
	Dave Osborn	14	20		1.4	166	8.3	11.9	1	18	102	427
	Gene Washington	12	18		1.5	259	14.4	21.6	2	39	18	259
	John Henderson	12	10		0.8	190	19.0	15.8	2	70	10	190
	Stu Voigt	14	6		0.4	50	8.3	3.6	1	14	7	51
	Clint Jones	7	6		0.9	42	7.0	6.0	0	10	58	206
	Jim Lindsey	13	3		0.2	28	9.3	2.2	0	13	4	36

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Paul Krause	14							6	109	18.2	1	35
	Bobby Bryant	14							4	82	20.5	0	34
	Roy Winston	13							3	55	18.3	0	23
	Jeff Wright	13							3	31	10.3	0	31
	Charlie West	14							3	7	2.3	0	8
	Karl Kassulke	8							2	25	12.5	0	22
	Jeff Siemon	13							2	23	11.5	0	23
	Wally Hilgenberg	14							1	17	17	1	14
	Nate Wright	14							1	10	10	0	10
	Lonnie Warwick	6							1	6	6	0	6

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Fred Cox	14	0	0	0	0	21	34		0	97
	Bill Brown	14	4	4	0	8	0	0		0	48
	John Gilliam	14	0	7	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Dave Osborn	14	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	John Henderson	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Clint Jones	7	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Paul Krause	14	0	0	2	2	0	0		0	12
	Oscar Reed	14	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Stu Voigt	14	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Gene Washington	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	John Beasley	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bobby Bryant	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Wally Hilgenberg	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Ed Marinaro	10	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Charlie West	14	9	111	6.9	0	23	16
	John Gilliam	14	14	0		0		0
	Clint Jones	7	12	0		0		0
	Bobby Bryant	14	2	48	4.8	0	10	10
	Bill Brown	14	3	0		0		0
	Jim Lindsey	13	1	0		0		0
	Stu Voigt	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
	Fred Cox	14	21	33	63.6	4-4	6-9	7-10	4-9	0-1	34	34	100.0	97

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Mike Eischeid	14	62	2,651	42.8	61	1