| New York Giants at Detroit Lions Game Statistics |
| Date: December 11, 1955 Location: Detroit, MI |
| Venue: Briggs Stadium Attendance: 45929 |
| Weather: Light Snow Temp: 29 F Humidty: 63% Wind: 17 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 24 |
| Detroit Lions | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 19 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | NYG | DET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit Lions | Doak Walker 25 pass from Harry Gilmer (Doak Walker kick) | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | New York Giants | Alex Webster 6 run (Ben Agajanian kick) | 7 | 7 |
| 2 | New York Giants | Frank Gifford 22 run (Ben Agajanian kick) | 14 | 7 |
| 2 | New York Giants | Frank Gifford 37 pass from Don Heinrich (Ben Agajanian kick) | 21 | 7 |
| 2 | Detroit Lions | Doak Walker 19 FG | 21 | 10 |
| 3 | New York Giants | Ben Agajanian 24 FG | 24 | 10 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | Safety, Tom Landry punt blocked out of end zone by Bob Long | 24 | 12 |
| 4 | Detroit Lions | Lew Carpenter 19 run (Doak Walker kick) | 24 | 19 |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | |||||
| Alex Webster | 16 | 80 | 5.0 | 19 | 1 |
| Bobby Epps | 12 | 39 | 3.3 | 10 | 0 |
| Frank Gifford | 9 | 37 | 4.1 | 21 | 1 |
| Charley Conerly | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Rote | 1 | -5 | -5.0 | -5 | 0 |
| Detroit Lions | |||||
| Lew Carpenter | 11 | 36 | 3.3 | 19t | 1 |
| Jug Girard | 5 | 23 | 4.6 | 10 | 0 |
| Harry Gilmer | 4 | 20 | 5.0 | 9 | 0 |
| Bill Stits | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Doak Walker | 3 | -6 | -2.0 | 1 | 0 |
| PASSING | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | |||||||||||
| Don Heinrich | 13 | 5 | 38.5 | 0 | 90 | 6.9 | 37t | 1 | 0 | 88.6 | |
| Charley Conerly | 6 | 1 | 16.7 | 0 | 7 | 1.2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | |
| Detroit Lions | |||||||||||
| Harry Gilmer | 49 | 24 | 49.0 | 1 | 254 | 5.2 | 29 | 1 | 15 | 62.8 | |
| RECEIVING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | |||||
| Frank Gifford | 3 | 61 | 20.3 | 37 | 1 |
| Bob Schnelker | 2 | 29 | 14.5 | 17 | 0 |
| Kyle Rote | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Detroit Lions | |||||
| Lew Carpenter | 10 | 91 | 9.1 | 29 | 0 |
| Jim Doran | 6 | 79 | 13.2 | 19 | 0 |
| Doak Walker | 4 | 65 | 16.3 | 25t | 1 |
| Bill Stits | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Dave Middleton | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Jug Girard | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | |||||
| Harland Svare | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
| Detroit Lions | |||||
| PUNTING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | |||||
| Tom Landry | 7 | 249 | 35.6 | 58 | 1 |
| Detroit Lions | |||||
| PUNT RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | ||||||
| Emlen Tunnell | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Detroit Lions | ||||||
| Jack Christiansen | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Giants | ||||||
| Detroit Lions | ||||||
| Jack Christiansen | 5 | 129 | 25.8 | 35 | 0 | |
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