| San Francisco 49ers at Detroit Lions Game Statistics |
| Date: October 11, 1953 Location: Detroit, MI |
| Venue: Briggs Stadium Attendance: 58079 |
| Weather: Mostly Clear Temp: 72 F Humidty: 38% Wind: 6 mph |
| Score By Quarters | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco 49ers | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
| Detroit Lions | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 24 |
| Qtr | Team | Scoring Plays | SF | DET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit Lions | Cloyce Box 23 pass from Doak Walker (Doak Walker kick) | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | Detroit Lions | Doak Walker 23 FG | 0 | 10 |
| 1 | San Francisco 49ers | Gordy Soltau 5 pass from Y.A. Tittle (Gordy Soltau kick) | 7 | 10 |
| 2 | San Francisco 49ers | Joe Arenas 10 run (Gordy Soltau kick) | 14 | 10 |
| 2 | Detroit Lions | Bob Hoernschemeyer 4 run (Doak Walker kick) | 14 | 17 |
| 3 | Detroit Lions | Leon Hart 36 pass from Bobby Layne (Doak Walker kick) | 14 | 24 |
| 3 | San Francisco 49ers | Y.A. Tittle 1 run (Gordy Soltau kick) | 21 | 24 |
| RUSHING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| SF | Joe Arenas | 6 | 35 | 5.8 | 10t | 1 |
| SF | Joe Perry | 10 | 21 | 2.1 | 8 | 0 |
| SF | Hugh McElhenny | 14 | 16 | 1.1 | 9 | 0 |
| SF | Hal Ledyard | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| SF | Y.A. Tittle | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1t | 1 |
| DET | Doak Walker | 10 | 51 | 5.1 | 14 | 0 |
| DET | Ollie Cline | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 9 | 0 |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 5 | 15 | 3.0 | 6 | 1 |
| DET | Gene Gedman | 6 | 11 | 1.8 | 4 | 0 |
| DET | Bobby Layne | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 3 | 0 |
| DET | Pat Harder | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 7 | 0 |
| DET | Lew Carpenter | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 4 | 0 |
| PASSING | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | ATT | COM | PCT | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD | TS | YL | RTG |
| SF | Y.A. Tittle | 13 | 8 | 61.5 | 1 | 87 | 6.7 | 30 | 1 | 31 | 74.8 | |
| SF | Jim Powers | 5 | 1 | 20.0 | 1 | 9 | 1.8 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | |
| SF | Hal Ledyard | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 | ||
| DET | Bobby Layne | 18 | 9 | 50.0 | 3 | 166 | 9.2 | 49 | 1 | 5 | 61.1 | |
| DET | Doak Walker | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 23 | 23.0 | 23t | 1 | 0 | 158.3 | |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| RECEIVING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| SF | Gordy Soltau | 4 | 37 | 9.3 | 17 | 1 |
| SF | Billy Wilson | 2 | 43 | 21.5 | 30 | 0 |
| SF | Hugh McElhenny | 2 | 19 | 9.5 | 13 | 0 |
| SF | Joe Perry | 1 | -3 | -3.0 | -3 | 0 |
| DET | Cloyce Box | 2 | 72 | 36.0 | 49 | 1 |
| DET | Leon Hart | 2 | 60 | 30.0 | 36t | 1 |
| DET | Dorne Dibble | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 15 | 0 |
| DET | Doak Walker | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| DET | Bob Hoernschemeyer | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
| DET | Gene Gedman | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| SF | Lowell Wagner | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 32 | 0 |
| SF | Fred Bruney | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
| SF | Rex Berry | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
| DET | Jack Christiansen | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
| DET | LaVern Torgeson | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
| PUNTING | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL |
| DET | Bob Smith | 6 | 255 | 42.5 | 48 | 0 |
| PUNT RETURNS | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| DET | Jack Christiansen | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | PLAYER | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
| SF | Joe Perry | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
| DET | Jack Christiansen | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | |
| DET | Yale Lary | 1 | 19 | 19.0 | 19 | 0 |
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