1966 Houston Oilers Statistics
Team Record: 3-11
Finishing 4th in the AFL's East Division
Coach: Wally Lemm (3-11)
Location: Houston, Texas
1966 Houston Oilers Results
The Houston Oilers of the American Football League ended the 1966 season with a record of 3 wins and 11 losses, finishing fourth in the AFL's East Division.
Houston chalked up 335 points, while the shaky defensive squad yielded 396, most in the circuit. George Blanda passed for 1,764 yards, and Don Trull spent time under center as well. Charley Frazier hauled in 57 passes for 1,129 yards.
Ode Burrell ran for a team-leading 406 yards for the Oilers, and Hoyle Granger also contributed to the rushing attack.
Fred Glick and Jim Norton each intercepted 4 errant tosses from the opposition.
Wally Lemm coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Blanda | 271 | 122 | 45.0 | 1764 | 6.5 | 17 | 6.3 | 21 | 7.7 | 79 | 55.3 |
Don Trull | 172 | 84 | 48.8 | 1200 | 7.0 | 10 | 5.8 | 5 | 2.9 | 62 | 79.1 |
Buddy Humphrey | 32 | 15 | 46.9 | 168 | 5.2 | 2 | 6.2 | 1 | 3.1 | 32 | 70.8 |
Jacky Lee | 8 | 4 | 50.0 | 27 | 3.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 12.5 | 10 | 18.2 |
Ode Burrell | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 9 | 9.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 104.2 |
Charley Tolar | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Totals | 485 | 226 | 46.6 | 3168 | 6.5 | 29 | 6.0 | 28 | 5.8 | 79 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ode Burrell | 122 | 406 | 3.3 | 45 | 0 |
Hoyle Granger | 56 | 388 | 6.9 | 69 | 1 |
Sid Blanks | 71 | 235 | 3.3 | 30 | 0 |
John Johnson | 70 | 226 | 3.2 | 28 | 3 |
Don Trull | 38 | 139 | 3.7 | 23 | 7 |
Charley Tolar | 46 | 105 | 2.3 | 17 | 0 |
Donnie Stone | 6 | 18 | 3.0 | 12 | 0 |
George Blanda | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 |
Jacky Lee | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | -3 | 0 |
Totals | 413 | 1515 | 3.7 | 69 | 11 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charley Frazier | 57 | 1129 | 19.8 | 79 | 12 |
Ode Burrell | 33 | 400 | 12.1 | 34 | 5 |
Charley Hennigan | 27 | 313 | 11.6 | 23 | 3 |
Bob McLeod | 23 | 339 | 14.7 | 41 | 3 |
Larry Elkins | 21 | 283 | 13.5 | 62 | 3 |
Sid Blanks | 19 | 234 | 12.3 | 42 | 2 |
Charley Tolar | 13 | 68 | 5.2 | 14 | 0 |
Bob Poole | 12 | 131 | 10.9 | 19 | 0 |
Hoyle Granger | 12 | 104 | 8.7 | 26 | 1 |
John Johnson | 8 | 150 | 18.8 | 53 | 0 |
Donnie Stone | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
Totals | 226 | 3168 | 14.0 | 79 | 29 |
Kicking:
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Norton | 69 | 2908 | 42.1 | 65 |
Totals | 69 | 2908 | 42.1 | 65 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ode Burrell | 8 | 78 | 9.8 | 29 | 0 |
Bobby Jancik | 10 | 62 | 6.2 | 28 | 0 |
Allen Trammel | 5 | 19 | 3.8 | 8 | 0 |
Totals | 23 | 159 | 6.9 | 29 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bobby Jancik | 34 | 875 | 25.7 | 53 | 0 |
Sid Blanks | 21 | 487 | 23.2 | 37 | 0 |
Allen Trammel | 3 | 63 | 21.0 | 26 | 0 |
Garland Boyette | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | 18 | 0 |
Jim Hayes | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 16 | 0 |
Ode Burrell | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
Totals | 64 | 1514 | 23.7 | 53 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Norton | 4 | 125 | 31.2 | 56 | 0 |
Fred Glick | 4 | 57 | 14.2 | 41 | 0 |
W.K. Hicks | 3 | 12 | 4.0 | 12 | 0 |
Bobby Jancik | 2 | 36 | 18.0 | 35 | 0 |
Bernie Parrish | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Doug Cline | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
Ronnie Caveness | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
Johnny Baker | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 18 | 259 | 14.4 | 56 | 0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Norton | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Bobby Jancik | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Doug Cline | 0 | 1 | |||||
Fred Glick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
George Blanda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Donnie Stone | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Charley Tolar | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ode Burrell | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sid Blanks | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Don Trull | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jacky Lee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
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Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
George Blanda | 0 | 16 | 39 | 0 | 87 | |||||||||
Charley Frazier | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | |||||||||
Don Trull | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | |||||||||
Ode Burrell | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||||||
Charley Hennigan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Bob McLeod | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Larry Elkins | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
John Johnson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Sid Blanks | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Hoyle Granger | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Doug Cline | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Totals | 11 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 333 |