
1953 Los Angeles Rams Statistics
Team Record: 8-3-1
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's West Division
Coach: Hampton Pool (8-3-1)
Location: Los Angeles, California
1953 Los Angeles Rams Results
The Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League ended the 1953 season with a record of 8 wins and 3 losses and 1 ties, finishing third in the NFL's West Division.
Los Angeles lit up the scoreboard for 366 points, while the defense yielded 236. Dan Towler ran for a team-leading 879 yards for the Rams, and Skeet Quinlan also aided the ground game.
Norm Van Brocklin passed for 2,393 yards. Elroy Hirsch snagged 61 balls for 941 yards.
Woodley Lewis and Norb Hecker each seized 7 opponent throws.
Hampton Pool coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Norm Van Brocklin | 286 | 156 | 54.5 | 2393 | 8.4 | 19 | 6.6 | 14 | 4.9 | 70 | 84.1 |
Rudy Bukich | 32 | 14 | 43.8 | 169 | 5.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 9.4 | 30 | 21.5 |
Skeet Quinlan | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 60 | 15.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 25.0 | 40 | 56.3 |
Vitamin Smith | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 50 | 25.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 50 | 95.8 |
Totals | 324 | 173 | 53.4 | 2672 | 8.2 | 19 | 5.9 | 18 | 5.6 | 70 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dan Towler | 152 | 879 | 5.8 | 73 | 7 |
Skeet Quinlan | 97 | 705 | 7.3 | 74 | 4 |
Tank Younger | 84 | 350 | 4.2 | 39 | 8 |
Brad Myers | 40 | 124 | 3.1 | 31 | 3 |
Tom McCormick | 20 | 29 | 1.4 | 8 | 0 |
Rudy Bukich | 14 | 28 | 2.0 | 17 | 1 |
Vitamin Smith | 8 | 26 | 3.2 | 21 | 0 |
Norm Van Brocklin | 8 | 11 | 1.4 | 6 | 0 |
Woodley Lewis | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 5 | 0 |
Elroy Hirsch | 1 | -6 | -6.0 | -6 | 0 |
Totals | 426 | 2148 | 5.0 | 74 | 23 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elroy Hirsch | 61 | 941 | 15.4 | 70 | 4 |
Bob Boyd | 24 | 548 | 22.8 | 70 | 4 |
Tom Fears | 23 | 278 | 12.1 | 31 | 4 |
Tank Younger | 20 | 259 | 13.0 | 48 | 1 |
Skeet Quinlan | 17 | 260 | 15.3 | 59 | 2 |
Dan Towler | 11 | 125 | 11.4 | 49 | 1 |
Vitamin Smith | 6 | 151 | 25.2 | 54 | 3 |
Tom McCormick | 5 | 72 | 14.4 | 20 | 0 |
Brad Myers | 4 | 13 | 3.2 | 9 | 0 |
Norb Hecker | 2 | 25 | 12.5 | 16 | 0 |
Totals | 173 | 2672 | 15.4 | 70 | 19 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Agajanian | 37 | 36 | 97.3 | 24 | 10 | 41.7 | 66 |
Tom Fears | 6 | 5 | 83.3 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 8 |
Elroy Hirsch | 5 | 4 | 80.0 | 4 | |||
Totals | 48 | 45 | 93.8 | 25 | 11 | 44.0 | 78 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Norm Van Brocklin | 60 | 2529 | 42.2 | 57 |
Totals | 60 | 2529 | 42.2 | 57 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woodley Lewis | 35 | 267 | 7.6 | 78 | 1 |
Vitamin Smith | 12 | 30 | 2.5 | 21 | 0 |
Bob Boyd | 5 | 26 | 5.2 | 13 | 0 |
Tom McCormick | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 |
Brad Myers | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 55 | 326 | 5.9 | 78 | 1 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woodley Lewis | 32 | 830 | 25.9 | 69 | 0 |
Tom McCormick | 5 | 134 | 26.8 | 44 | 0 |
Vitamin Smith | 2 | 44 | 22.0 | 26 | 0 |
Bob Boyd | 3 | 42 | 14.0 | 21 | 0 |
Skeet Quinlan | 2 | 38 | 19.0 | 22 | 0 |
Tank Younger | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 24 | 0 |
Charlie Toogood | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
Bud McFadin | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Harry Thompson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 48 | 1136 | 23.7 | 69 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Norb Hecker | 7 | 91 | 13.0 | 24 | 0 |
Woodley Lewis | 7 | 87 | 12.4 | 45 | 1 |
Herb Rich | 3 | 95 | 31.7 | 53 | 1 |
Don Paul | 3 | 50 | 16.7 | 32 | 0 |
Night Train Lane | 3 | 9 | 3.0 | 8 | 0 |
Jack Dwyer | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 31 | 1 |
Bob Boyd | 1 | 35 | 35.0 | 35 | 0 |
Stan West | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Harland Svare | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Bud McFadin | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Charlie Toogood | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 30 | 417 | 13.9 | 53 | 3 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Night Train Lane | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 0 | |
Andy Robustelli | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Harry Thompson | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Charlie Toogood | 0 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
Dan Towler | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bud McFadin | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Rudy Bukich | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Gene Lipscomb | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Herb Rich | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Elroy Hirsch | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tank Younger | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Don Paul | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tom Dahms | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Larry Brink | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Skeet Quinlan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Norm Van Brocklin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Boyd | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | ||
Tom Fears | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Vitamin Smith | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Brad Myers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tom McCormick | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Woodley Lewis | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 32 | 23 | 55 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Ben Agajanian | 10 | 36 | 0 | 66 | ||||||||||
Tank Younger | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | |||||||
Dan Towler | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | ||||||||
Skeet Quinlan | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||
Tom Fears | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 32 | |||||||||
Elroy Hirsch | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 28 | ||||||||
Bob Boyd | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | ||||||
Vitamin Smith | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
Brad Myers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Woodley Lewis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
Night Train Lane | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Jack Dwyer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Herb Rich | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Rudy Bukich | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Totals | 23 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 366 |