
1946 Philadelphia Eagles Statistics
Team Record: 6-5
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's East Division
Coach: Greasy Neale (6-5)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1946 Philadelphia Eagles Results
The Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League ended the 1946 season with a record of 6 wins and 5 losses, finishing second in the NFL's East Division.
Philadelphia scored 231 points, while the defensive squad allowed 220. Steve Van Buren carried the ball for a team-leading 529 yards for the Eagles.
Tommy Thompson passed for 745 yards, and Roy Zimmerman spent time under center, too. Jack Ferrante topped pass catchers, grabbing 28 passes for 451 yards.
Gil Steinke picked off 6 opponent throws.
Greasy Neale coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tommy Thompson | 103 | 57 | 55.3 | 745 | 7.2 | 6 | 5.8 | 9 | 8.7 | 45 | 61.3 |
Roy Zimmerman | 79 | 41 | 51.9 | 597 | 7.6 | 4 | 5.1 | 8 | 10.1 | 59 | 54.1 |
Allie Sherman | 33 | 17 | 51.5 | 264 | 8.0 | 4 | 12.1 | 3 | 9.1 | 53 | 80.1 |
Steve Van Buren | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 35 | 35.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 35 | 118.8 |
Bosh Pritchard | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Totals | 217 | 116 | 53.5 | 1641 | 7.6 | 14 | 6.5 | 20 | 9.2 | 59 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve Van Buren | 116 | 529 | 4.6 | 58 | 5 |
Bosh Pritchard | 42 | 218 | 5.2 | 68 | 3 |
Gil Steinke | 38 | 154 | 4.1 | 40 | 1 |
Russ Craft | 27 | 108 | 4.0 | 24 | 0 |
Ernie Steele | 31 | 108 | 3.5 | 43 | 1 |
Jim Castiglia | 39 | 87 | 2.2 | 14 | 1 |
Roy Zimmerman | 23 | 43 | 1.9 | 12 | 1 |
Joe Muha | 12 | 41 | 3.4 | 16 | 0 |
Jack Hinkle | 18 | 33 | 1.8 | 8 | 0 |
Pete Kmetovic | 5 | 30 | 6.0 | 27 | 0 |
Ben Kish | 6 | 13 | 2.2 | 4 | 0 |
Elliott Ormsbee | 4 | 12 | 3.0 | 11 | 0 |
Allie Sherman | 21 | 8 | 0.4 | 12 | 0 |
Dick Humbert | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
Mel Bleeker | 6 | -7 | -1.2 | 6 | 0 |
Tommy Thompson | 34 | -116 | -3.4 | 6 | 0 |
Totals | 423 | 1263 | 3.0 | 68 | 12 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jack Ferrante | 28 | 451 | 16.1 | 48 | 4 |
Dick Humbert | 18 | 191 | 10.6 | 22 | 3 |
Bosh Pritchard | 14 | 309 | 22.1 | 59 | 3 |
Jim Castiglia | 11 | 51 | 4.6 | 23 | 0 |
Larry Cabrelli | 8 | 98 | 12.2 | 38 | 1 |
Steve Van Buren | 6 | 75 | 12.5 | 33 | 0 |
Gil Steinke | 5 | 107 | 21.4 | 32 | 2 |
Ernie Steele | 5 | 69 | 13.8 | 24 | 0 |
Pete Kmetovic | 4 | 68 | 17.0 | 38 | 0 |
Russ Craft | 4 | 48 | 12.0 | 35 | 0 |
Rudy Smeja | 3 | 45 | 15.0 | 17 | 0 |
Mel Bleeker | 3 | 29 | 9.7 | 20 | 0 |
Ben Kish | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | 7 | 0 |
Bob Krieger | 2 | 47 | 23.5 | 35 | 0 |
Jay MacDowell | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 28 | 0 |
Bert Kuczynski | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 1 |
Totals | 116 | 1641 | 14.1 | 59 | 14 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Augie Lio | 27 | 27 | 100.0 | 11 | 6 | 54.5 | 45 |
Roy Zimmerman | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 8 |
Totals | 29 | 29 | 100.0 | 15 | 8 | 53.3 | 53 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Roy Zimmerman | 23 | 890 | 38.7 | 52 |
Joe Muha | 22 | 843 | 38.3 | 64 |
Bosh Pritchard | 7 | 242 | 34.6 | 64 |
Ben Kish | 4 | 163 | 40.8 | 50 |
Steve Van Buren | 1 | 41 | 41.0 | 41 |
Totals | 57 | 2179 | 38.2 | 64 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bosh Pritchard | 12 | 166 | 13.8 | 42 | 0 |
Gil Steinke | 8 | 116 | 14.5 | 27 | 0 |
Steve Van Buren | 5 | 89 | 17.8 | 50 | 1 |
Ernie Steele | 9 | 82 | 9.1 | 18 | 0 |
Russ Craft | 4 | 47 | 11.8 | 16 | 0 |
Jack Hinkle | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
Totals | 39 | 504 | 12.9 | 50 | 1 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve Van Buren | 11 | 319 | 29.0 | 63 | 0 |
Bosh Pritchard | 8 | 164 | 20.5 | 42 | 0 |
Ernie Steele | 8 | 120 | 15.0 | 51 | 0 |
Gil Steinke | 3 | 92 | 30.7 | 56 | 0 |
Russ Craft | 4 | 86 | 21.5 | 28 | 0 |
Jack Hinkle | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 25 | 0 |
Joe Muha | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
Dick Humbert | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Jim Castiglia | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
Rudy Smeja | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
Elliott Ormsbee | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Henry Gude | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 41 | 881 | 21.5 | 63 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gil Steinke | 6 | 72 | 12.0 | 52 | 1 |
Russ Craft | 3 | 105 | 35.0 | 49 | 0 |
Ernie Steele | 3 | 69 | 23.0 | 30 | 0 |
Roy Zimmerman | 3 | 58 | 19.3 | 37 | 0 |
Bosh Pritchard | 3 | 7 | 2.3 | 4 | 0 |
Jack Hinkle | 2 | 37 | 18.5 | 34 | 0 |
Al Wistert | 1 | 27 | 27.0 | 27 | 0 |
Ben Kish | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Vic Lindskog | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Joe Muha | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
Duke Maronic | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Bucko Kilroy | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 26 | 413 | 15.9 | 52 | 1 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve Van Buren | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
Duke Maronic | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tommy Thompson | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Russ Craft | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ernie Steele | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | ||
Augie Lio | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
Joe Muha | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Allie Sherman | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ben Kish | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Roy Zimmerman | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jack Ferrante | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||
Rudy Smeja | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Mel Bleeker | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bosh Pritchard | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bob Krieger | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jay MacDowell | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Vic Lindskog | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Alex Wojciechowicz | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Al Wistert | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
John Wyhonic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Gil Steinke | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Castiglia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Elliott Ormsbee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Pete Kmetovic | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Totals | 0 | 0 | 54 | 45 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Augie Lio | 1 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 51 | |||||||||
Bosh Pritchard | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||
Steve Van Buren | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||
Jack Ferrante | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||||||
Gil Steinke | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||
Dick Humbert | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Roy Zimmerman | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | ||||||||
Jim Castiglia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Larry Cabrelli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Ernie Steele | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||
Bert Kuczynski | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Jay MacDowell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Totals | 12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 229 |