Towler, Younger and Hoerner were coined the Bull Elephant Backfield: Outside) and Dick Hoerner doing so in 1950, and then Dan Towler and Tank Younger earning those honors in each of the next three seasons.
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Two running backs made the Pro Bowl each season, with Glenn Davis (aka Mr. They were the dominant passing offense of their day, but they were far from one dimensional. The ’52 team broke 300 yards only twice, topping out at 358 yards, but that team led the league in net yards per attempt for the third consecutive year. Los Angeles led the league in passing yards in 1951, but this was no one-year wonder: the Rams threw for 427 in a game in 1950, and threw for over 300 yards in half their games that year. They ranked first in points in all three years, possessing a dominant offense in every way possible. Joe Stydahar’s Rams from ’50 to ’52 were the greatest show on grass a half century before the modern games. So how the heck did Van Brocklin throw for so many yards in one game and how has nobody broken that mark?
Since 2002, there have been 512 team-games per season with a chance to put up 554 yards in 1951, there were only 144. And while the league has obviously shifted more from the running game to the passing game since Van Brocklin’s era, there is another reason to think his mark would have been broken by now: there are way more games than there used to be. High passing games weren’t unheard of in the ’40s and ’50s, but they’re certainly more common now. As you can see, the dot at (1951, 554) is a pretty large outlier: How the heck did that happen? Below, I have plotted all games where a team has passed for at least 450 gross yards (that is, without deduction for sacks). On the other hand, he set the record in 1951. He should be on most top-20 quarterback lists, and his net yards per pass attempt - one of the most basic but important measures of quarterback play - is the best of all time. Let’s begin with the obvious: Van Brocklin is a Hall of Famer and all-time great quarterback who, at his very best, produced some of the most efficient and valuable seasons in NFL history. I’ll be reprinting and updating that post today. The current record, as trivia experts know, is 554 passing yards, set by Norm Van Brocklin way back in 1951.Įight years ago, I first wrote about how Van Brocklin held the record for most passing yards in a single game. Had the Hail Mary been completed, Brady would have thrown for 556 yards, setting a new single-game passing yardage record. … nearly comes down with it in the end zone. RT Tom Brady hail mary incomplete, Philadelphia Eagles win the 2018 Super Bowl #SBLII #SuperBowl /oE99C671Vw
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