1936 Pittsburgh Pirates (NFL) |
| 2nd place Eastern Division 6-6-0 .500 |
| Head Coach: Joe Bach |
| Johnny Blood | Assistant Coach |
| Cad Reese | Assistant Coach |
| J.P. Rooney | Assistant Coach |
| SCORES | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Date | Opponent | Score | Location | Venue | Attendance | |||
| Sun | 9/13/1936 | H | Boston Redskins | 10-0 | W | Pittsburgh, PA | Forbes Field | 15622 | |
| Wed | 9/23/1936 | A | Brooklyn Dodgers | 10-6 | W | New York, NY | Ebbets Field | 10000 | |
| Sun | 9/27/1936 | H | New York Giants | 10-7 | W | Pittsburgh, PA | Forbes Field | 25800 | |
| Sun | 10/4/1936 | H | Chicago Bears | 9-27 | L | Pittsburgh, PA | Forbes Field | 28777 | |
| Wed | 10/14/1936 | H | Philadelphia Eagles | 17-0 | W | Pittsburgh, PA | Forbes Field | 10042 | |
| Sun | 10/18/1936 | A | Chicago Bears | 7-26 | L | Chicago, IL | Wrigley Field | 19877 | |
| Sun | 10/25/1936 | A | Green Bay Packers | 10-42 | L | West Allis, WI | Wisconsin State Fair Park | 10000 | |
| Sun | 11/1/1936 | H | Brooklyn Dodgers | 10-7 | W | Pittsburgh, PA | Forbes Field | 9573 | |
| Thu | 11/5/1936 | H | Philadelphia Eagles | 6-0 | W | Johnstown, PA | Point Stadium | 7891 | |
| Sun | 11/8/1936 | A | Detroit Lions | 3-28 | L | Detroit, MI | University of Detroit Stadium | 18000 | |
| Sun | 11/15/1936 | A | Chicago Cardinals | 6-14 | L | Chicago, IL | Wrigley Field | 3856 | |
| Sat | 11/21/1936 | A | Los Angeles Bulldogs | 7-28 | L | Los Angeles, CA | Gilmore Stadium | 6000 | |
| Sun | 11/29/1936 | A | Boston Redskins | 0-30 | L | Boston, MA | Fenway Park | 4813 | |
Exhibition game. Playoff game. A=Away game. H=Home game. N=Neutral site game. W=Win. L=Loss. T=Tie. OT=Overtime.
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| ROSTER | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Player | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | College | GP | GS |
| 11 | Maurice Bray | LOT-LDT-ROT-RDT-ROG-RDG | 6-1 | 220 | 27 | Southern Methodist | 11 | 4 |
| 23 | Ed Brett | LOE-LDE | 6-2 | 203 | 22 | Washington State | 8 | 4 |
| 30 | Win Croft | LOG-LDG-ROG-RDG | 5-11 | 235 | 26 | Utah | 9 | 1 |
| 39 | Max Fiske | BB-S-WB-LDH-TB-RDH | 6-0 | 199 | 23 | DePaul | 11 | 0 |
| 33 | Johnny Gildea | BB-S-WB-LDH | 6-0 | 205 | 26 | St. Bonaventure | 12 | 9 |
| 15 | Warren Heller | WB-LDH-TB-RDH | 5-11 | 195 | 26 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 4 |
| 35 | Cal Hubbard | ROG-RDG | 6-2 | 253 | 36 | Centenary; Geneva | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | George Kakasic | ROG-RDG-LOG-LDG | 5-10 | 200 | 24 | Duquesne | 12 | 7 |
| 64 | Bull Karcis | FB-LB | 5-9 | 223 | 28 | Carnegie Mellon | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Ed Karpowich | LOT-LDT-ROT-RDT | 6-4 | 223 | 24 | Catholic | 11 | 3 |
| 29 | Bill Lajousky | ROG-RDG-LOG-LDG | 5-11 | 200 | 23 | Catholic | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | Jim Levey | BB-S-WB-LDH | 5-10 | 156 | 30 | none | 4 | 0 |
| 47 | Ed Matesic | TB-RDH-WB-LDH | 6-1 | 198 | 29 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 11 |
| 40 | Lindy Mayhew | LOG-LDG-ROT-RDT | 6-1 | 223 | 29 | Texas-El Paso | 12 | 8 |
| 27 | Jim McDonald | WB-LDH | 6-0 | 195 | 25 | Duquesne | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | Lee Mulleneaux | C-LB | 6-1 | 221 | 29 | Northern Arizona | 12 | 12 |
| 17 | Armand Niccolai | ROT-RDT | 6-2 | 226 | 25 | Duquesne | 11 | 4 |
| 16 | Buster Raborn | C-LB | 6-0 | 198 | 23 | Southern Methodist | 12 | 0 |
| 53 | George Rado | LOG-LDG-ROG-RDG | 5-9 | 194 | 24 | Duquesne | 12 | 6 |
| 28 | Sandy Sandberg | LOT-LDT-ROT-RDT | 6-1 | 228 | 26 | Iowa Wesleyan | 12 | 10 |
| 10 | Dick Sandefur | FB-LB-WB-LDH | 5-10 | 195 | 24 | Purdue | 8 | 0 |
| 25 | Vince Sites | ROE-RDE | 6-2 | 215 | 24 | Pittsburgh | 12 | 7 |
| 26 | Ed Skoronski | LOE-LDE | 6-2 | 213 | 26 | Georgetown (DC); Purdue | 12 | 6 |
| 30 | Bill Sortet | ROE-RDE | 6-1 | 187 | 27 | West Virginia | 12 | 5 |
| 44 | Art Strott | WB-LDH-TB-LDH | 6-0 | 202 | 24 | Duquesne | 10 | 5 |
| 24 | John Turley | BB-S | 5-10 | 185 | 24 | Ohio Wesleyan | 4 | 4 |
| 19 | Vic Vidoni | LOE-LDE | 6-2 | 211 | 24 | Duquesne | 2 | 2 |
| 22 | Silvio Zaninelli | BB-S-FB-LB | 5-10 | 207 | 23 | Duquesne | 12 | 3 |
| DRAFT LIST | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round | Overall | Player | Pos | College |
| 1 | 3 | Bill Shakespeare | B | Notre Dame |
| 2 | 12 | Len Barnum | B | West Virginia Wesleyan |
| 3 | 21 | Bobby Grayson | B | Stanford |
| 4 | 30 | Truman Spain | T | Southern Methodist |
| 5 | 39 | Dick Sandefur | B | Purdue |
| 6 | 48 | Maurice Orr | T | Southern Methodist |
| 7 | 57 | Marty Peters | E | Notre Dame |
| 8 | 66 | Ed Karpowich | T | Catholic |
| 9 | 75 | Joe Meglen | B | Georgetown (DC) |
| SCORING BY QUARTERS | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | OT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 23 | 30 | 17 | 28 | |
| Opponents Totals | 34 | 72 | 34 | 47 |
| TEAM STATS | TOP | 1st Downs | FDR | FDP | FDX | 3rd Down Efficiency | 4th Down Efficiency | PEN | PENY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 117 | / % | / % | 336 | |||||
| Opponents Totals | / % | / % |
| SCORING | TD | X1 | X1A | PCT | FG | FGA | PCT | SAF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand Niccolai | 0 | 7 | 7 | 100.0 | 7 | 0 | 28 | ||
| Warren Heller | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||
| George Kakasic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 50.0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Bull Karcis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Ed Skoronski | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Bill Sortet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Art Strott | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Silvio Zaninelli | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Ed Brett | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Team Totals | 10 | 9 | 10 | 90.0 | 9 | 1 | 98 | ||
| Opponents Totals | 27 | 22 | 27 | 81.5 | 1 | 0 | 187 |
| FIELD GOALS | MADE | ATT | PCT | BL | LG | 1-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand Niccolai | 7 | 41 | 1/ | 2/ | 3/ | 1/ | 0/ | |||
| George Kakasic | 2 | 36 | 0/ | 0/ | 2/ | 0/ | 0/ | |||
| Team Totals | 9 | 41 | 1/ | 2/ | 5/ | 1/ | 0/ | |||
| Opponents Totals | 1 | 1/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ | 0/ |
| RUSHING | ATT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Heller | 106 | 332 | 3.1 | 0 | |
| Bull Karcis | 89 | 272 | 3.1 | 2 | |
| Art Strott | 84 | 180 | 2.1 | 1 | |
| Max Fiske | 58 | 92 | 1.6 | 0 | |
| Silvio Zaninelli | 31 | 61 | 2.0 | 1 | |
| Ed Matesic | 46 | 58 | 1.3 | 0 | |
| Bill Sortet | 1 | 47 | 47.0 | 47 | 0 |
| Johnny Gildea | 35 | 31 | 0.9 | 0 | |
| Jim McDonald | 9 | 18 | 2.0 | 0 | |
| Dick Sandefur | 7 | 13 | 1.9 | 0 | |
| Jim Levey | 4 | 3 | 0.8 | 0 | |
| Bill Lajousky | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| George Kakasic | 1 | -8 | -8.0 | -8 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 472 | 1100 | 2.3 | 4 | |
| Opponents Totals | 543 | 2150 | 4.0 | 11 |
| PASSING | ATT | COM | PCT | INC | YDS | Y/ATT | Y/COM | LG | TD | TD% | INT | INT% | TS | YL | NYP | RTG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Matesic | 138 | 64 | 64 | 58 | 850 | 6.2 | 13.3 | 4 | 2.9 | 16 | 11.6 | 36.5 | ||||
| Johnny Gildea | 29 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 147 | 5.1 | 16.3 | 1 | 3.4 | 5 | 17.2 | 21.0 | ||||
| Max Fiske | 15 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 64 | 4.3 | 10.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 20.0 | 13.6 | ||||
| Art Strott | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 118.8 | |||
| Silvio Zaninelli | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 16.7 | 0.0 | |||
| Bull Karcis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 50.0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Warren Heller | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 20.0 | 0.0 | |||||
| Team Totals | 198 | 81 | 81 | 89 | 1078 | 5.4 | 13.3 | 5 | 2.5 | 28 | 14.1 | 27.7 | ||||
| Opponents Totals | 164 | 52 | 52 | 87 | 907 | 5.5 | 17.4 | 13 | 7.9 | 25 | 15.2 | 38.4 |
| RECEIVING | REC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Sortet | 14 | 197 | 14.1 | 1 | |
| Warren Heller | 12 | 160 | 13.3 | 3 | |
| Art Strott | 11 | 166 | 15.1 | 0 | |
| Ed Skoronski | 8 | 95 | 11.9 | 1 | |
| Bull Karcis | 8 | 71 | 8.9 | 0 | |
| Ed Brett | 7 | 139 | 19.9 | 0 | |
| Max Fiske | 7 | 96 | 13.7 | 0 | |
| Johnny Gildea | 5 | 70 | 14.0 | 0 | |
| Vic Vidoni | 2 | 35 | 17.5 | 20 | 0 |
| Vince Sites | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 15 | 0 |
| Silvio Zaninelli | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 9 | 0 |
| Ed Matesic | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Jim McDonald | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| Ed Karpowich | 1 | -6 | -6.0 | -6 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 81 | 1078 | 13.3 | 5 | |
| Opponents Totals | 52 | 907 | 17.4 | 13 |
| INTERCEPTIONS | INT | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 25 | 0 | |||
| Opponents Totals | 28 | 2 |
| PUNTING | NO | YDS | AVG | LG | BL | TB | I20 | RYDS | NYDS | NET |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | ||||||||||
| Opponents Totals | 415 |
| PUNT RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 415 | 0 | ||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
| KICKOFF RETURNS | NO | FC | YDS | AVG | LG | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Totals | 0 | |||||
| Opponents Totals | 0 |
| FUMBLES | NO | LOST | OWN | OPP | REC | YDS | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Kakasic | 1 | ||||||
| Team Totals | 34 | 1 | |||||
| Opponents Totals | 1 |
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