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1942 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL)

2nd place • Eastern Division • 7-4-0 .636

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Head Coach: Walt Kiesling

Assistant Coach

SCORES
Day	Date		Opponent	Result			Location	Venue	Attendance
Fri	8/21/1942	A	Cleveland Rams	6-35	L		East Liverpool, OH	Patterson Field	8000
Sat	9/5/1942	H	Chicago Bears	20-40	L		PIttsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	20172
Sun	9/13/1942	H	Philadelphia Eagles	14-24	L		Pittsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	13349
Sun	9/20/1942	A	Washington Redskins	14-28	L		Washington, DC	Griffith Stadium	30759
Sun	10/4/1942	H	New York Giants	13-10	W		Pittsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	9600
Sun	10/11/1942	A	Brooklyn Dodgers	7-0	W		New York, NY	Ebbets Field	17689
Sun	10/18/1942	A	Philadelphia Eagles	14-0	W		Philadelphia, PA	Shibe Park	12500
Sun	10/25/1942	H	Washington Redskins	0-14	L		Pittsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	37764
Sun	11/1/1942	A	New York Giants	17-9	W		New York, NY	Polo Grounds	19346
Sun	11/8/1942	A	Detroit Lions	35-7	W		Detroit, MI	Briggs Stadium	16679
Sun	11/15/1942	H	Fort Knox	28-0	W		PIttsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	23491
Sun	11/22/1942	H	Chicago Cardinals	19-3	W		Pittsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	20711
Sun	11/29/1942	H	Brooklyn Dodgers	13-0	W		Pittsburgh, PA	Forbes Field	5340
Sun	12/6/1942	A	Green Bay Packers	21-24	L		West Allis, WI	Wisconsin State Fair Park	5138

Exhibition game. Playoff game. A=Away game. H=Home game. N=Neutral site game. W=Win. L=Loss. T=Tie. OT=Overtime.

ROSTER
Player	No	Pos	Ht	Wt	Age	College	GP	GS
Art Albrecht	46	C-LB	6-1	200	21	Wisconsin	3	0
Johnny Binotto	5	WB-DH	5-10	185	23	Duquesne	6	1
Tony Bova	31/41	LOE-LDE	6-1	190	25	St. Francis (Pennsylvania)	11	10
Tom Brown	32	OE-DE	6-2	216	21	William & Mary	7	0
Chuck Cherundolo	42/21	C-LB	6-1	215	26	Penn State	11	11
Russ Cotton	10	BB-S	6-1	196	27	Texas-El Paso	11	0
Al Donelli	33	WB-RDH	5-7	165	25	Duquesne	4	1
Ted Doyle	28	OT-DT	6-2	224	28	Nebraska	10	0
Bill Dudley	35	TB-LDH	5-10	175	21	Virginia	11	11
George Gonda	30	WB-RDH	5-10	175	23	Duquesne	5	1
Hal Hinte	50	OE-DE	6-1	195	22	Pittsburgh	3	0
Joe Hoague	17	FB-LB	6-2	203	24	Colgate	11	0
Walt Kichefski	45	ROE-RDE	6-1	212	26	Miami (Florida)	11	11
Joe Lamas	29	OG-DG	5-10	216	26	Mount St. Mary's	9	0
Hubbard Law	34	OG-DG	6-1	210	21	Sam Houston State	10	0
Don Looney	30	LOE-LDE-ROE-RDE	6-2	182	26	Texas Christian	4	1
Vern Martin	15	BB-S	5-10	195	22	Texas	11	11
Clure Mosher	37	C-LB	6-1	215	22	Louisville	3	0
John Naioti	25	BB-S	5-10	180	21	St. Francis (Pennsylvania)	2	0
Armand Niccolai	23	K	6-2	226	31	Duquesne	11	0
Frank Pastin	38	OG-DG	5-10	197	22	Notre Dame; Waynesburg	1	0
Dick Riffle	12	FB-LB	6-1	200	27	Albright	11	11
Mike Rodak	40	LOG-LDG	5-10	195	25	Western Reserve	5	2
Jack Sanders	44	LOG-LDG	6-0	219	25	Southern Methodist	9	9
Curt Sandig	11	HB-RDH	5-10	175	24	Baylor; St. Mary's (Texas)	11	8
Johnny Schiechl	24	C-LB	6-3	244	25	Santa Clara	1	0
Elbie Schultz	48	LOT-LDT	6-4	252	25	Oregon State	11	11
Milt Simington	55	ROG-RDG	6-2	217	24	Arkansas	11	11
George Sirochman	20	OG-DG-C-LB	5-11	215	24	Duquesne	2	0
George Somers	19	OT-DT	6-2	253	27	La Salle	11	0
Andy Tomasic	3	TB-LDH	5-9	173	23	Temple	11	0
Ralph Wenzel	22	OE-DE	6-0	205	24	Tulane	4	0
John Woudenberg	36	ROT-RDT	6-3	226	24	Denver	11	11

DRAFT LIST
Round	Overall	Player	Pos	College
1	1	Bill Dudley	B	Virginia
2	11	Vern Martin	B	Texas
3	16	Ken Casanega	B	Santa Clara
4	26	Mal Kutner	E	Texas
5	31	Curt Sandig	B	St. Mary's (Texas)
6	41	Charley Greene	T	Tulsa
7	51	Johnny Butler	B	Tennessee
8	61	Floyd Spendlove	T	Utah
9	71	Rayburn Chase	B	Missouri
10	81	Ernie Steele	B	Washington
11	91	Thornley Wood	B	Columbia
12	101	Bill Roach	E	Texas Christian
13	111	Wayne Holt	G	Tulsa
14	121	Clure Mosher	C	Louisville
15	131	Hubbard Law	B	Sam Houston State
16	141	Andy Tomasic	B	Temple
17	151	Garth Chamberlain	T	Brigham Young
18	161	John Rokisky	E	Duquesne
19	171	Ray Jenkins	B	Colorado
20	181	Frank Kapriva	G	Wake Forest

SCORING BY QUARTERS	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	PTS
Team Totals	14	47	42	64	167
Opponents Totals	30	31	17	41	119

TEAM STATS	TOP	1st Downs	FDR	FDP	FDX	3rd Down Efficiency	4th Down Efficiency	PEN	PENY
Team Totals		130	86	29	15	/ %	/ %	58	383
Opponents Totals		114	59	50	5	/ %	/ %	60	512

SCORING	TD	X1	X1A	PCT	FG	FGA	PCT	SAF	PTS
Bill Dudley	6	0	0		0	0		0	36
Dick Riffle	4	1	1	100.0	0	0		0	25
Curt Sandig	4	0	0		0	0		0	24
Armand Niccolai	0	9	9	100.0	2	14	14.3	0	15
George Gonda	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Vern Martin	2	0	0		0	0		0	12
Jack Sanders	0	7	8	87.5	0	0		0	7
Tom Brown	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Joe Hoague	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Joe Lamas	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Don Looney	1	0	0		0	0		0	6
Andy Tomasic	1	0	1	0.0	0	0		0	6
Milt Simington	0	1	2	50.0	1	1	100.0	0	4
Johnny Binotto	0	1	1	100.0	0	0		0	1
George Somers	0	1	1	100.0	0	1	0.0	0	1
Team Totals	23	20	23	87.0	3	16	18.8	0	167
Opponents Totals	15	13	15	86.7	5	17	29.4	0	119

FIELD GOALS	MADE	ATT	PCT	BL	LG	1-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+
Armand Niccolai	2	14	14.3	2	30	0/3	1/3	1/4	0/4	0/0
Milt Simington	1	1	100.0	0	16	1/1	0/0	0/0	0/0	0/0
George Somers	0	1	0.0	0		0/0	0/0	0/1	0/0	0/0
Team Totals	3	16	18.8	2	30	1/4	1/3	1/5	0/4	0/0
Opponents Totals	5	17	29.4			1/	2/	2/	0/	0/

RUSHING	ATT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bill Dudley	162	696	4.3	66	5
Dick Riffle	115	467	4.1	44t	4
Andy Tomasic	60	214	3.6	34	0
Joe Hoague	65	168	2.6	42	1
George Gonda	17	147	8.6	68t	2
Curt Sandig	50	116	2.3	39t	3
Johnny Binotto	16	57	3.6	30	0
Hubbard Law	1	6	6.0	6	0
Al Donelli	2	-4	-2.0	0	0
Team Totals	490	1851	3.8	68t	15
Opponents Totals	366	1205	3.3		4

PASSING	ATT	COM	PCT	INC	YDS	Y/ATT	Y/COM	LG	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	TS	YL	NYP	RTG
Bill Dudley	94	35	37.2	54	438	4.7	12.5	38	2	2.1	5	5.3				37.5
Andy Tomasic	54	11	20.4	38	174	3.2	15.8	41	0	0.0	5	9.3				1.9
Dick Riffle	8	3	37.5	4	64	8.0	21.3	27	0	0.0	1	12.5				27.1
Curt Sandig	4	2	50.0	2	10	2.5	5.0	8	0	0.0	0	0.0				56.3
Joe Hoague	1	0	0.0	1	0	0.0			0	0.0	0	0.0				39.6
Team Totals	161	51	31.7	99	686	4.3	13.5	41	2	1.2	11	6.8				21.9
Opponents Totals	211	100	47.4	90	1183	5.6	11.8		9	4.3	21	10.0				39.6

RECEIVING	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Walt Kichefski	15	189	12.6	26	0			0
Don Looney	7	59	8.4	14	1		0	0
Vern Martin	7	64	9.1	24	1			0
Curt Sandig	6	103	17.2	38	0			0
Tom Brown	4	69	17.3	30	0			0
Tony Bova	3	37	12.3	17	0		0	0
Dick Riffle	3	50	16.7	31	0			0
Russ Cotton	2	58	29.0	41	0		1	1
Bill Dudley	1	24	24.0	24	0		1	0
George Gonda	1	7	7.0	7	0		0	0
Andy Tomasic	1	27	27.0	27	0		1	0
John Woudenberg	1	-1	-1.0	-1	0	0	0	0
Team Totals	51	686	13.5	41	2
Opponents Totals	100	1183	11.8		9

INTERCEPTIONS	INT	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Curt Sandig	5	94	18.8	42	0
Dick Riffle	4	59	14.8	51	0
Bill Dudley	3	60	20.0	25	0
Andy Tomasic	2	75	37.5	41	0
George Gonda	1	37	37.0	37	0
Tony Bova	1	16	16.0	16	0
Joe Hoague	1	15	15.0	15	0
Hubbard Law	1	13	13.0	13	0
Jack Sanders	1	8	8.0	8	0
Chuck Cherundolo	1	3	3.0	3	0
Russ Cotton	1	0	0.0	0	0
Team Totals	21	420	20.0	51	0
Opponents Totals	11	131	11.9		0

PUNTING	NO	YDS	AVG	LG	BL	TB	I20	RYDS	NYDS	NET
Curt Sandig	37	1437	38.8	63	0
Andy Tomasic	17	604	35.5	58	1
Bill Dudley	18	572	31.8	52	1
Joe Hoague	2	88	44.0	45	0
Dick Riffle	1	40	40.0	40	0
Team Totals	75	2741	36.5	63	2					31.0
Opponents Totals	71							662		31.9

PUNT RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bill Dudley	20		271	13.6	47	0
Andy Tomasic	12		199	16.6	52t	1
Curt Sandig	6		142	23.7	64t	1
Johnny Binotto	2		25	12.5	20	0
George Gonda	2		17	8.5	15	0
Dick Riffle	1		8	8.0	8	0
Team Totals	43		662	15.4	64t	2
Opponents Totals	40			10.3		0

KICKOFF RETURNS	NO	FC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
Bill Dudley	11		298	27.1	84t	1
Curt Sandig	7		168	24.0	61	0
Dick Riffle	7		137	19.6	27	0
Andy Tomasic	4		94	23.5	31	0
Tony Bova	1		2	2.0	2	0
Team Totals	30		699	23.3	84t	1
Opponents Totals	27					0

FUMBLES	NO	LOST	OWN	OPP	REC	YDS	TD
Joe Lamas							1
Team Totals	22	10	12	7	19		1
Opponents Totals	19	7	12	10	22		0

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