1979 San Diego Chargers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

San Diego Chargers

12-4-0

1st in AFC West

Scored 25.7 PPG (2nd)

Allowed 15.4 PPG (2nd)

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1979 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	411	5,583	1,053	5.3	1,668	481	3.5	4,138	541	7.6	31	223	330	114	192	24	108	908
Team Rank		2nd	5th	11th	5th	27th	25th	26th	1st	5th	6th	7th	23rd	5th	21st	3rd	14th	18th	20th
Opponent	16	246	4,456	989	4.5	1,907	475	4.0	2,881	472	6.1	42	332	268	117	132	19	100	812
Opponent Rank		2nd	5th	3rd	6th	8th	1st	15th	6th	19th	4th	11th	19th	7th	12th	6th	5th	18th	20th
Net		+165	+1,127	+64	+0.8	-239	+6	-0.5	+1,257	+69	+1.5	-11	-109	+62	-3	+60	+5	+8	+96
Net Rank		1st	4th	6th	3rd	18th	16th	23rd	1st	6th	2nd	10th	23rd	3rd	16th	2nd	7th	19th	21st

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Dan Fouts	16	332	530	62.6	33.1	4,082	7.7	255.1	24	4.5	24	4.5	65	28	195	82.6
	James Harris	8	5	9	55.6	1.1	38	4.2	4.8	0	0.0	1	11.1	10	2	15	26.4
	Mike Thomas	14	1	1	100.0	0.1	18	18.0	1.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	18	0	0	118.8
	Mike Fuller	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
	Clarence Williams	16	200	12.5	752	3.8	47.0	12	55	251	1,104
	Mike Thomas	14	91	6.5	353	3.9	25.2	1	21	123	741
	Lydell Mitchell	12	63	5.3	211	3.3	17.6	0	15	82	370
	Artie Owens	16	40	2.5	151	3.8	9.4	1	23	55	327
	Bo Matthews	16	30	1.9	112	3.7	7.0	1	22	37	152
	Dan Fouts	16	26	1.6	49	1.9	3.1	2	26	26	49
	Hank Bauer	16	22	1.4	28	1.3	1.8	8	6	22	28
	James Harris	8	6	0.8	26	4.3	3.3	0	18	6	26
	Mike Fuller	16	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Jeff West	16	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.1	0	-2	1	-2
	Charlie Joiner	16	1	0.1	-12	-12.0	-0.8	0	-12	73	996

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Charlie Joiner	16	72		4.5	1,008	14.0	63.0	4	39	73	996
	John Jefferson	15	61		4.1	1,090	17.9	72.7	10	65	61	1,090
	Clarence Williams	16	51		3.2	352	6.9	22.0	0	14	251	1,104
	Bob Klein	15	37		2.5	424	11.5	28.3	5	54	37	424
	Mike Thomas	14	32		2.3	388	12.1	27.7	0	32	123	741
	Kellen Winslow	7	25		3.6	255	10.2	36.4	2	30	25	255
	Lydell Mitchell	12	19		1.6	159	8.4	13.3	1	24	82	370
	Artie Owens	16	15		0.9	176	11.7	11.0	1	32	55	327
	John Floyd	8	10		1.3	152	15.2	19.0	1	40	10	152
	Bo Matthews	16	7		0.4	40	5.7	2.5	0	13	37	152
	Greg McCrary	14	5		0.4	32	6.4	2.3	0	19	5	32
	Larry Burton	12	4		0.3	62	15.5	5.2	0	23	4	62

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Woodrow Lowe	16							5	150	30	2	77
	Ray Preston	16							5	121	24.2	0	35
	Glen Edwards	15							4	99	24.8	0	53
	Mike Williams	16							4	55	13.8	0	50
	Mike Fuller	16							4	39	9.8	0	23
	Pete Shaw	16							3	54	18	0	30
	Bob Horn	16							2	44	22	0	30
	Don Goode	12							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Clarence Williams	16	12	0	0	12	0	0		0	72
	Mike Wood	9	0	0	0	0	11	28		0	61
	John Jefferson	15	0	10	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Hank Bauer	16	8	0	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Bob Klein	15	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Rolf Benirschke	4	0	0	0	0	4	12		0	24
	Charlie Joiner	16	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Dan Fouts	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Woodrow Lowe	16	0	0	2	2	0	0		0	12
	Artie Owens	16	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Kellen Winslow	7	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Roy Gerela	3	0	0	0	0	1	6		0	9
	Wilbur Young	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		1	8
	John Floyd	8	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bo Matthews	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Lydell Mitchell	12	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Mike Thomas	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Greg McCrary	14	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2
	Cliff Olander	4	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	1

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Mike Fuller	16	6	448	9.7	0	27	46
	Artie Owens	16	35	0		0		0
	Hank Bauer	16	4	0		0		0
	Clarence Williams	16	1	0		0		0
	Lydell Mitchell	12	1	0		0		0
	Cliff Thrift	16	1	0		0		0
	Ralph Perretta	16	1	0		0		0
	Bo Matthews	16	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 Wood	9	11	14	78.6	0-0	4-4	6-6	1-1	0-3	28	31	90.3	61
	Rolf Benirschke	4	4	4	100.0	0-0	2-2	1-1	1-1	0-0	12	13	92.3	24
	Roy Gerela	3	1	7	14.3	0-0	1-2	0-2	0-3	0-0	6	7	85.7	9
	Cliff Olander	4	0	1	0.0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-0	1	1	100.0	1

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Jeff West	16	75	2,736	36.5	62	0