1971 New Orleans Saints Statistics

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1971 New Orleans Saints Individual Offensive Player Statistics

Passing Stats

Attempts Completions % Yards Yds./Att Longest Tds Int Rating Sacked/Loss
Edd Hargett 210 96 45.7% 1191 5.7 49 6 5 63.4 10/-68
Archie Manning 177 86 48.5% 1164 6.6 63t 6 9 60.1 40/-332
Totals 387 182 47.0% 2355 6.1 63t 12 14 61.9 50/-400

Rushing Statistics

Attempts Yards Average Longest TDs
Jim Strong 95 404 4.3 39 3
Bob Gresham 127 383 3.0 18 6
James Ford 93 379 4.1 35 4
Archie Manning 33 172 5.2 17 4
Hoyle Granger 32 139 4.3 16 1
Tony Baker 29 125 4.3 20 0
Virgil Robinson 29 96 3.3 12 1
Edd Hargett 9 24 2.7 11 1
Al Dodd 1 7 7.0 7 0
Billy Harris 1 1 1.0 1 0
Dave Parks 2 -2 -2.0 10 0
Julian Fagan 1 -17 -17.0 -17 0
Totals 452 1711 3.8 39 18

Receiving Statistics

Catches Yards Average Longest TDs
Danny Abramowicz 37 657 17.7 63t 5
Dave Parks 35 568 16.2 42 5
Bob Newland 21 319 15.1 44 0
Bob Gresham 17 203 11.9 37 0
James Strong 16 78 4.8 14 0
Al Dodd 15 298 19.8 49 0
Virgil Robinson 12 53 4.4 17 1
Hoyle Granger 12 52 4.3 11 0
James Ford 7 54 7.7 10 0
Tony Baker 6 44 7.3 29t 1
Don Burchfield 3 36 12.0 16 0
Archie Manning 1 -7 -7.0 -7 0

Punting Stats

Number Average Longest
Julian Fagan 77 41.4 64

Kicking Stats

XP XPA % FG Attempts % Longest Points
Charlie Durkee 24 25 96% 16 23 70% 38 72
Skip Butler 5 6 83% 1 5 20% 32 8
Totals 29 31 93.5 17 28 60.7% 38 80
Rookie Archie manning
Rookie Archie Manning
Bob Gresham of the 1971 New Orleans Saints
Bob Gresham carries against Dallas
Rookie Al Dodd
Don Morrison New Orleans Saints Rookie Tackle 1971
Offensive Lineman Don Morrison

1971 Total Offense Statistics

Points AVG PPG Yards AVG YPG Plays Avg 1st Downs Turnovers NFL Rank NFC Rank
Totals 266 19.0 3666 261.8 889 4.1 242 25 19† 10†
†Offensive Rankings based on Total Yards gained.

Individual Defensive Statistics

Interceptions

NO Yards Average Longest TDs
Hugo Hollas 5 56 11.2 25 0
Delles Howell 5 120 24.0 60 0
Doug Wyatt 4 84 21.0 84 1
Dee Martin 3 51 17.0 26 0
Dick Absher 1 21 21.0 21 0
Wayne Coleman 1 0 0.0 0 0
Jim Flanigan 1 10 10.0 10 0
Totals 20 342 17.1 84 1

1971 New Orleans Saints Total Defense

Points AVG PPG Yards AVG YPG Plays Avg 1st Downs Turnovers NFL Rank NFC Rank
Totals 327 23.3 4438 317 852 5.2 260 45 22† 11†
†Defensive Rankings based on Total Yards gained.
Rookie Defensive Tackle Doug Moors New Orleans Saints 1971
Saints Rookie Doug Moors
Rookie Bob Pollard sacks John Brodie - 1971 New Orleans Saints
Bob Pollard takes down John Brodie of the 49ers.

Defensive Notes for the Saints 1971 NFL Season

  • The Saints Defense of 1971 was credited with 24 Sacks. (Sacks were not kept as an individual statistic until 1982)
  • Richard Neal and Dave Long each had 4 fumble recoveries.
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