Evening star., 1940-12-16
Redskins, on Top in I
Departments, Show
Figures Futile
Lead All Clubs in Firsts
With Boueh as Ace;
Worst FumbIers
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

But they don't pay off on
statistics"
That was the old gag being resung
today by Washington pro football
fandom as they read the National
Leagues final statistics for 1910
showing the Redskins led in seven
departments of play. No other team
in the loop could show an advantage
in so many classifications, the
Packers leadership in five being
the next best record.
How meaningless statistics are was
demonstrated also last year when
the Bears were the leading all
around performers, yet failed to win
even the Western Division cham
pionship.
Slingin' Sammy Baugh can be
held directly responsible for four of
the Redskins marks-yards gained
passing, passing efficiency, touch
down passes and average distance of
punts. Baugh not only established
an all-time efficiency mark himself
but did most to give his team a
record of being So per cent sue
cessful with its aerial game-l7 per-
centage points higher than the
league average and eight-tenths of
a point better than the all-time
mark it set in 1899.
Redskins Kicking Record Great.
However, the 1887 yards that
Washington gained passing WASH I
as great as that gained by the Bears
last year. And the 18 touchdown
passes that Baugh and Frank Fill
chock threw were no more than the
number of six-pointers the Packer;
scored via the airlanes.
The Redskins kicking record was
something else to behold. for its
team average of As yards from the
scrimmage line was better than that
of any of the leagues leading &c
kickers last year. This was due main
ly to Baughs remarkable knack fol-
getting off those lengthy qiuck kicks
of his as we'll as his boots from
regular punt formation.
The Redskins 245 points gave
them the scoring leadership, the 2e
points after their 35 touchdowns the
best mrak for conversions and the
59l yards they returned enemy punts
the greatest amount of yardage fol
runbacks.
Tribe Fumbles Most.
Washington lied" in another de-
partment of which it is not so proud
for no other team fumbled the 4(
times that the Redskins butter.
fingered the ball But maybe there:
a moral in fumbling The team thai
fumbled least was the Philadelphia
Eagles. winner of only one of its II
games. They fumbled on only Il
occasions.
Green Bays leadership was found
in first downs, total yards gained
pass interceptions. field goals and
tied with the Neutrality-suspicious.
passes. The Eagles were third a:
statistical leaders with no peer il
the number of passes (they com
pleted the unprecedented total Of
152 out of 1862 thrown, the least
fumbles and the least penalties
The champion ground loving Bear!
gained more yards rushing than any
other team. scored more touchdown!
running and-Aha were penalizec
most. The COS yards they lost by
infractions of the rules. however. was
the only thing that kept the Red
skins from being the most penalizeG
team in the league for Ray Flah.
erty's henchmen lost 425 yard.
themselves by officials walks. NJ
other team lost more than 349.
Remaining statistics found the
Giants surrendering the least yard.
age and the Dodgers the least oppo.
nents' points and revealed the Chi
cago Cardinals as the best pass de.
fenSe but most scored -on team.