1978 Dallas Cowboys Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Dallas Cowboys

12-4-0

1st in NFC East

Scored 24.0 PPG (1st)

Allowed 13.0 PPG (3rd)

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1978 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	16	384	5,959	1,107	5.4	2,783	625	4.5	3,405	449	7.6	33	229	342	146	167	29	95	801
Team Rank		1st	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	5th	3rd	4th	8th	4th	10th	23rd	2nd	4th	3rd	8th	6th	6th
Opponent	16	208	4,009	967	4.1	1,721	477	3.6	2,730	432	6.3	58	442	232	83	128	21	95	783
Opponent Rank		3rd	2nd	2nd	4th	1st	1st	5th	10th	14th	9th	1st	26th	2nd	1st	11th	9th	25th	26th
Net		+176	+1,950	+140	+1.2	+1,062	+148	+0.8	+675	+17	+1.3	-25	-213	+110	+63	+39	+8	0	+18
Net Rank		1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	4th	12th	2nd	1st	27th	1st	2nd	1st	7th	13th	15th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Roger Staubach	15	231	413	55.9	27.5	3,190	7.7	212.7	25	6.1	16	3.9	91	32	219	84.9
	Danny White	16	20	34	58.8	2.1	215	6.3	13.4	0	0.0	1	2.9	35	1	10	65.2
	Tony Dorsett	16	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Tony Hill	16	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
	Tony Dorsett	16	290	18.1	1,325	4.6	82.8	7	63	327	1,703
	Robert Newhouse	13	140	10.8	584	4.2	44.9	8	24	160	760
	Scott Laidlaw	16	75	4.7	312	4.2	19.5	3	59	81	420
	Roger Staubach	15	42	2.8	182	4.3	12.1	1	23	42	182
	Preston Pearson	16	25	1.6	104	4.2	6.5	0	18	72	630
	Larry Brinson	10	18	1.8	96	5.3	9.6	2	39	18	96
	Doug Dennison	5	14	2.8	75	5.4	15.0	1	23	15	81
	Alois Blackwell	13	9	0.7	37	4.1	2.8	0	13	9	37
	Danny White	16	5	0.3	7	1.4	0.4	0	4	5	7
	Drew Pearson	16	3	0.2	29	9.7	1.8	0	33	47	743
	Tony Hill	16	3	0.2	17	5.7	1.1	0	14	49	840
	Billy Joe DuPree	16	1	0.1	15	15.0	0.9	0	15	35	524

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Preston Pearson	16	47		2.9	526	11.2	32.9	0	34	72	630
	Tony Hill	16	46		2.9	823	17.9	51.4	6	54	49	840
	Drew Pearson	16	44		2.8	714	16.2	44.6	3	53	47	743
	Tony Dorsett	16	37		2.3	378	10.2	23.6	2	91	327	1,703
	Billy Joe DuPree	16	34		2.1	509	15.0	31.8	9	38	35	524
	Robert Newhouse	13	20		1.5	176	8.8	13.5	2	24	160	760
	Butch Johnson	16	12		0.8	155	12.9	9.7	0	23	12	155
	Scott Laidlaw	16	6		0.4	108	18.0	6.8	1	44	81	420
	Jay Saldi	4	3		0.8	8	2.7	2.0	2	5	3	8
	Doug Dennison	5	1		0.2	6	6.0	1.2	0	6	15	81
	Golden Richards	1	1		1	2	2.0	2.0	0	2	1	2

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Benny Barnes	14							5	72	14.4	0	38
	Charlie Waters	16							4	61	15.3	0	22
	Cliff Harris	16							4	26	6.5	0	23
	Aaron Kyle	16							3	20	6.7	0	17
	Randy Hughes	16							2	80	40	0	56
	Dennis Thurman	16							2	35	17.5	0	23
	Larry Cole	16							1	13	13	0	13
	Harvey Martin	16							1	7	7	0	7
	Bob Breunig	16							1	2	2	0	2

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Rafael Septien	16	0	0	0	0	16	46		0	94
	Tony Dorsett	16	7	2	1	10	0	0		0	60
	Robert Newhouse	13	8	2	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Billy Joe DuPree	16	0	9	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Tony Hill	16	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Scott Laidlaw	16	3	1	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Drew Pearson	16	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Larry Brinson	10	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Jay Saldi	4	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Doug Dennison	5	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Roger Staubach	15	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Charlie Waters	16	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Butch Johnson	16	29	401	7.9	0	23	51
	Larry Brinson	10	6	0		0		0
	Dennis Thurman	16	3	0	0.0	0	0	1
	Alois Blackwell	13	3	0		0		0
	Doug Dennison	5	3	0		0		0
	Randy White	16	1	0		0		0
	Burton Lawless	16	1	0		0		0
	Jay Saldi	4	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
	Rafael Septien	16	16	26	61.5	2-3	8-8	3-5	3-10	0-0	46	47	97.9	94

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Danny White	16	76	3,076	40.5	56	1