
1947 Washington Redskins Statistics
Team Record: 4-8
Finishing 4th in the NFL's East Division
Coach: Turk Edwards (4-8)
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
1947 Washington Redskins Results
The Washington Redskins of the National Football League ended the 1947 season with a record of 4 wins and 8 losses, finishing fourth in the NFL's East Division.
The Redskins chalked up 295 points, but the leaky defense conceded 367, most in the circuit. Sammy Baugh threw for 2,938 yards. Bob Nussbaumer grabbed 47 passes, while Eddie Saenz accumulated 598 receiving yards. Hugh Taylor provided receiving help, too.
Jim Castiglia carried the ball for a team-best 426 yards for Washington.
Tom Farmer picked off 6 opponent throws.
Turk Edwards coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sammy Baugh | 354 | 210 | 59.3 | 2938 | 8.3 | 25 | 7.1 | 15 | 4.2 | 74 | 92.0 |
Jim Youel | 62 | 21 | 33.9 | 398 | 6.4 | 3 | 4.8 | 3 | 4.8 | 55 | 53.0 |
Totals | 416 | 231 | 55.5 | 3336 | 8.0 | 28 | 6.7 | 18 | 4.3 | 74 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Castiglia | 104 | 426 | 4.1 | 33 | 5 |
Sal Rosato | 74 | 297 | 4.0 | 20 | 0 |
Eddie Saenz | 51 | 143 | 2.8 | 18 | 0 |
Bob Nussbaumer | 43 | 136 | 3.2 | 47 | 0 |
Dick Poillon | 28 | 104 | 3.7 | 21 | 2 |
Jack Jenkins | 16 | 54 | 3.4 | 9 | 0 |
Sammy Baugh | 25 | 47 | 1.9 | 19 | 2 |
Dick Todd | 10 | 45 | 4.5 | 12 | 0 |
Jim Youel | 10 | 44 | 4.4 | 19 | 1 |
Tom Farmer | 15 | 29 | 1.9 | 9 | 1 |
Hugh Taylor | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Tommy Mont | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Ralph Ruthstrom | 2 | 5 | 2.5 | 4 | 0 |
George Wilde | 4 | -1 | -0.2 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 384 | 1343 | 3.5 | 47 | 11 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob Nussbaumer | 47 | 597 | 12.7 | 55 | 4 |
Eddie Saenz | 34 | 598 | 17.6 | 74 | 4 |
Hugh Taylor | 26 | 511 | 19.7 | 62 | 6 |
Dick Poillon | 20 | 250 | 12.5 | 30 | 4 |
Paul McKee | 16 | 242 | 15.1 | 29 | 2 |
Joe Duckworth | 14 | 250 | 17.9 | 55 | 3 |
Jim Castiglia | 11 | 88 | 8.0 | 25 | 0 |
Joe Tereshinski | 10 | 76 | 7.6 | 20 | 1 |
Tom Farmer | 8 | 137 | 17.1 | 31 | 0 |
Sal Rosato | 7 | 107 | 15.3 | 26 | 1 |
Doug Turley | 6 | 95 | 15.8 | 24 | 1 |
John Lookabaugh | 6 | 78 | 13.0 | 31 | 1 |
George Wilde | 6 | 45 | 7.5 | 18 | 1 |
Jack Jenkins | 5 | 96 | 19.2 | 37 | 0 |
Vince Pacewic | 5 | 42 | 8.4 | 15 | 0 |
Dick Todd | 4 | 84 | 21.0 | 38 | 0 |
Jim Peebles | 4 | 26 | 6.5 | 11 | 0 |
Tommy Mont | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 231 | 3336 | 14.4 | 74 | 28 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dick Poillon | 41 | 37 | 90.2 | 6 | 4 | 66.7 | 49 |
Jack Sommers | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | ||||
Jim Peebles | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 41 | 37 | 90.2 | 8 | 4 | 50.0 | 49 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sammy Baugh | 35 | 1528 | 43.7 | 67 |
Dick Poillon | 15 | 533 | 35.5 | 49 |
Jim Youel | 2 | 35 | 17.5 | 35 |
Totals | 52 | 2096 | 40.3 | 67 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eddie Saenz | 24 | 308 | 12.8 | 30 | 0 |
Dick Todd | 4 | 48 | 12.0 | 19 | 0 |
Tommy Mont | 3 | 37 | 12.3 | 19 | 0 |
Dick Poillon | 3 | 37 | 12.3 | 24 | 0 |
Bob Nussbaumer | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 13 | 0 |
Totals | 36 | 445 | 12.4 | 30 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eddie Saenz | 29 | 797 | 27.5 | 94 | 2 |
Dick Todd | 9 | 189 | 21.0 | 48 | 0 |
Bob Nussbaumer | 8 | 154 | 19.2 | 25 | 0 |
Tom Farmer | 4 | 118 | 29.5 | 36 | 0 |
Sal Rosato | 2 | 36 | 18.0 | 20 | 0 |
Harvey Jones | 1 | 30 | 30.0 | 30 | 0 |
Ernie Williamson | 1 | 28 | 28.0 | 28 | 0 |
Don Avery | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 17 | 0 |
Dick Poillon | 4 | 23 | 5.8 | 12 | 0 |
George Wilde | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
Jim Peebles | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Jim Castiglia | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Doug Turley | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Ralph Ruthstrom | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
John Steber | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 66 | 1456 | 22.1 | 94 | 2 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Farmer | 6 | 27 | 4.5 | 22 | 0 |
Dick Todd | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 50 | 0 |
Al DeMao | 2 | 35 | 17.5 | 21 | 0 |
Dick Poillon | 2 | 28 | 14.0 | 16 | 0 |
Ki Aldrich | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 7 | 0 |
Tommy Mont | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Jack Jenkins | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Bob Nussbaumer | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
John Sanchez | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Fred Boensch | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 21 | 172 | 8.2 | 50 | 0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sammy Baugh | 15 | 7 | -7 | 0 | |||
Eddie Saenz | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bob Nussbaumer | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
Jim Peebles | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Ernie Williamson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Bill Ward | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Hank Harris | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
John Adams | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Mike Garzoni | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Doug Turley | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |||
Ki Aldrich | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jim Youel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Don Avery | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Dick Poillon | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Sal Rosato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hugh Taylor | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Dick Todd | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Jack Jenkins | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Paul McKee | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jim Castiglia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Fred Boensch | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Totals | 0 | 0 | 34 | 21 | -4 | 0 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Dick Poillon | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 0 | 85 | |||||
Hugh Taylor | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||
Eddie Saenz | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||
Jim Castiglia | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||||||
Bob Nussbaumer | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||
Joe Duckworth | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Sammy Baugh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Paul McKee | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Jim Youel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
George Wilde | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
John Lookabaugh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Tom Farmer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Joe Tereshinski | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Sal Rosato | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Doug Turley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Totals | 11 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 295 |