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Hirsch's season was better, because he also led the league in yards per catch, more than 2 yards ahead of second place. Kupp ranked 33rd in that category. Of course there were a lot more teams, but he was almost 5 yards behind the leader. So Hirsch wins.

I’ve been watching a lot of games from the 1983 Chargers. They are a fascinating team to me... This is a very good write-up. It seems to me that you've done a few of these before, right? If so, I think it would be worthwhile to collect them and have them printed in the Coffin Corner. I think they'd...

It doesn't usually happen, but this one came to me right away. It was Tampa Bay, and the quarterbacks were Doug Williams, Steve Young and Trent Dilfer.

Damn, I noticed that Rutigliano had been a UPI award-winner twice, but I didn't consider him because I thought the snow game when Sipe threw that interception was the AFC conference championship, so the Browns had already won one playoff game to get there. Oh well.

Allie Sherman, Jim Mora? I think you're right about Sherman. But as far as I can tell, Mora was only a one-time UPI coach of the year. My first thought for the second guy was Jack Pardee, but he did win one playoff game in about 1991. Then I thought it might be Leeman Bennett, but again, it turns o...

Neft-Cohen's Pro Football: The Early Years lists all NFL players and their years of military service (pp. 160-161). Here are the totals by year: 1941--44 (we tend to forget that the draft started in late 1940) 1942--202 1943--376 1944--418 1945--358 Ah, I had forgotten about that feature in the Nef...

Maybe it was that the War was already depleting things in '42 though not quite as bad as, say, a couple years later. You think of some classic Battle-of-Unbeatens. Yale/Harvard '68, MIami/Penn State '86. In each case, despite both being undefeated, one (Yale/the U) seemed more superior/dominant. We...

My "ranked too low" team is the 1942 Redskins. They went 10-1 and then beat an undefeated team to win the championship! I think that entitles them to a little more respect.

Anecdotally...I remember once reading somewhere (maybe an article from the '30s or '40s) that the reason the NFL didn't move the posts to the back of the EZ (as college teams had, evidently sometime in the '20s) was because it wanted to cut down on the number of tie games. Placekicking being what i...

Tony Canadeo Good one. I think he's the most obscure 1,000-yard rusher from the days when that was still a rare accomplishment -- i.e., before Jim Brown and Jim Taylor. Feathers is remembered because he was the first; Spec Sanders because he was the first to average 100 yards per game; Van Buren wa...