| New York Yanks at Detroit Lions Game Statistics |
| Date: October 21, 1951 Location: Detroit, MI |
| Venue: Briggs Stadium Attendance: 21807 |
| Weather: Smoke Haze Temp: 71 F Humidty: 41% Wind: 12 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Yanks | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 24 |
| Detroit Lions | 3 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 24 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | NYY | DET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit Lions | Doak Walker 19 FG | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | New York Yanks | Buddy Young 48 pass from Bob Celeri (Harvey Johnson kick) | 7 | 3 |
| 2 | Detroit Lions | Leon Hart 15 pass from Bobby Layne (Doak Walker kick) | 7 | 10 |
| 2 | New York Yanks | Harvey Johnson 38 FG | 10 | 10 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | Pat Harder 9 run (Doak Walker kick) | 10 | 17 |
| 3 | New York Yanks | Zollie Toth 6 run (Harvey Johnson kick) | 17 | 17 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | Leon Hart 16 pass from Bob Hoernschemeyer (Doak Walker kick) | 17 | 24 |
| 4 | New York Yanks | Zollie Toth 1 run (Harvey Johnson kick) | 24 | 24 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| NYY | Zollie Toth | 17 | 41 | 2.4 | 16 | 2 |
| NYY | Bob Celeri | 4 | 13 | 3.3 | 7 | 0 |
| NYY | Sherman Howard | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | 6 | 0 |
| NYY | Buddy Young | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0 |
| NYY | George Taliaferro | 4 | -1 | -0.3 | 8 | 0 |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 10 | 50 | 5.0 | 18 | 0 |
| DET | Pat Harder | 6 | 30 | 5.0 | 10 | 1 |
| DET | Doak Walker | 6 | 5 | 0.8 | 5 | 0 |
| DET | Lindy Pearson | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| DET | Leon Hart | 2 | -6 | -3.0 | -2 | 0 |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| NYY | Bob Celeri | 30 | 13 | 43.3 | 0 | 223 | 7.4 | 53 | 1 | 18 | 80.3 | |
| NYY | John Rauch | 3 | 1 | 33.3 | 0 | 15 | 5.0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 50.7 | |
| DET | Bobby Layne | 44 | 20 | 45.5 | 2 | 306 | 7.0 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 57.6 | |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 16 | 16.0 | 16t | 1 | 0 | 158.3 | |
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| NYY | Sherman Howard | 3 | 96 | 32.0 | 53 | 0 |
| NYY | Dan Garza | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 15 | 0 |
| NYY | Bill O'Connor | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 14 | 0 |
| NYY | Zollie Toth | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 15 | 0 |
| NYY | Danny Edwards | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 9 | 0 |
| NYY | Buddy Young | 1 | 48 | 48.0 | 48t | 1 |
| NYY | George Taliaferro | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
| DET | Dorne Dibble | 7 | 125 | 17.9 | 39 | 0 |
| DET | Leon Hart | 6 | 110 | 18.3 | 31 | 2 |
| DET | Doak Walker | 5 | 64 | 12.8 | 25 | 0 |
| DET | Jim Doran | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 21 | 0 |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| DET | Pat Harder | 1 | -6 | -6.0 | -6 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| DET | Doak Walker | 3 | 100 | 33.3 | 45 | 0 |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DET | Don Doll | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| NYY | Wayne Siegert | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| DET | John Prchlik | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
| DET | Barry French | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
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