Never understood why they still do this for college football. You'll hear the announcer say "Plainfield Tech has negative thirty rushing yards in this game!" and I'll think to myself, "Yeah, how many of those are actually rushing yards and not sack yards?"
It also makes you wonder how many rushing yards quarterbacks like Keenan Reynolds, Pat White and Brad Smith were cheated out of from their record setting totals because sack yards were taken from them.
Sacks as part of rushing average
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Re: Sacks as part of rushing average
I don't have anything prior to 1943, and am missing the first three years of the AAFC, but this is what I have from the official league guides the following years:
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Year Lg Punts Yds Avg. PPG
1943 NFL 506 19,391 38.3 12.65
1944 NFL 596 22,353 37.5 11.92
1945 NFL 513 19,648 38.3 10.26
1946 NFL 579 23,739 41.0 10.53
1947 NFL 649 26,960 41.5 10.82
1948 NFL 690 28,081 40.7 11.50
1949 NFL 666 26,973 40.5 11.10
AAC 432 17,391 40.3 10.29
1950 NFL 890 35,944 40.4 11.41
1951 NFL 814 32,900 40.4 11.31